Here's a pic of one of my female Selayar "Golden" retics. Pretty obvious where this locality gets its name! I have 1.2 of these, 1.1 of which were on the 2nd shipment to N. America from Herpafauna Indonesia (aka "Indoherp"), so are some of the oldest known Selayars in captivity. For those out there who are not aware, Auliya et al re-classified this locality as a unique subspecies in April 2002 (Python reticulatus saputrai). I have a copy of the publication in pdf (Adobe Acrobat) format if anyone wants to see it - e-mail me at
curtisn@bennettjones.ca for a copy.
I've only had this particular girl for about 18 months, so is quite new to the collection. My male has developed an incredible orange body colouration. Hardly any grey on the flanks of this locality - very cool looking retics that reportedly (and so far in my experience) stay relatively small. Duncan MacRae at Indoherp refers to these as "semi dwarf" retics.
Nathan
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