The Red-Tail Boa (Boa constrictor constrictor) is probably one of the "big" snakes the most kept in the world. Its generally tame, its wide range of colors and patterns depending of the subspecies or of the breeding selections, its easy maintenance in captivity and its ability to easily reproduce in general, contributed to its popularity.

We have 4 "Surinam*" type Red-Tail Boa.

2 of these specimens are rather "classic" knowing that "classic" for Boa constrictor constrictor already means nice specimens.

Among the 2 other specimens, there is a young male with very particular patterns and colors. Indeed, this male has a long very red tail going through one third of its body and a pinkish general color tending towards purple. Its dorsal ocelli have a very particular sheriff's star shape.

We will soon know if those very particular characteristics can be passed on or not because this male mated with the last boa constrictor we are going to describe.

It is a very nice female from a litter that Philippe got in 2004 with a hypomelanistic Surinam type male and a more "classic" Surinam type female.

Babies from this litter had in addition to a very light color, like their father, a very specific pattern allowing to recognize them among any other red-tail boa even adults.

In fact their occelli have a very specific shape looking like a bat with deployed wings, their tail with very red ocelli surrounded with white color goes through one third of their body and they have a yellow pastel rather than beige color poorly spotted with black spots.

* There are a lot of debates concerning the origin of boas found on the market. Boas we carefully call "Surinam type" are boas corresponding to a standard based on the appearance that the majority of the boas found in the northeast of South America have. Indeed, Surinam is situated between Guyana, French Guyana and Brazil and boas are moving animals. For example, what should be the origin of a boa caught on the left bank of the Maroni on Monday (Surinam), which was 2 days ago on the opposite bank (Guyana) knowing that one of its relatives was born in Brazil and the other was born in Guyana, and mated in Surinam and gave birth to a litter in French Guyana ?