Locality type Emerald Tree Boa
Adult size, how white the dorsal markings are and how deep the green. Amazon Basin animals run larger with a bolder white line; northern animals are smaller and more broken in pattern.
How it is produced
- Where it comes from
- This is not a single gene. It is produced by choosing which animals to breed, over generations.
- What that means for breeding
- No offspring percentage can be given for it. Breeders judge it by looking at the parents.
Offspring odds
No numbers for this one.
Locality type is produced by selective breeding over generations, not by a single gene, so no offspring percentage can be given for it. Breeders judge it by looking at the parents.
Worth knowing. Emerald tree boas are born red, orange or brick and change to adult green over months to more than a year. A photograph of a neonate says almost nothing about the adult, and the change happens whatever the locality — it is not a trait a breeder selects.
What this rests on
Established by breeders through repeated crosses and recorded in community documentation, not by published genetics. That is how almost all morph inheritance is known — and it is worth saying rather than presenting it as laboratory fact.