Boa imperator "longicauda"

[Lefitte]

I absolutely love longicaudas! A friend of mine breeds them and introduced me to them, though not in person unfortunately. I think that whenever I decide I want a larger snake (my biggest will be my male brb who is many times slimmer than a longi) that I really want a longi. I've often said that if I bred any snake, it would probably be brb or longi. Yours are gorgeous!

The taxonomy talk is interesting. I'm not well versed in it myself and I dont follow studies but I recently did an essay about the different subspecies of Epicrates in South America and came across a study that was calling for a change to make each one distict species instead of E.c. subspecies. (I.e. making Epicrates cenchria cenchria just Epicrates cenchria and, say, Epicrates cenchria assisi to Epicrates assisi). So I completely understand what you mean about the new trend being a move away from subspecies and into distinct species, I didn't realize that it was bigger than just Epicrates though. Interesting!