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Provenance
CB = Captive Bred. The animal has been bred in
captivity.
CBxx = Captive bred xx is the year the
animal was born. Therefore CB11 means the animals were
captive bred in 2011.
CF = Captive Farmed. The animal
may have been an egg collected from the wild but hatched
in captivity. This is particularly common with wild
royal pythons.
LTC = Long term captive. An animal
that was caught in the wild, but has been in captivity
for a 'long time'.
WC = Wild Caught. The animal has
been removed from the wild.
Snakes
ARB - Argentine Rainboa Boa.
ATB - Amazon Tree
Boa.
BCA - Boa constrictor amarali.
BCC - Boa
constrictor constrictor (red tailed boa).
BCI - Boa
constrictor imperator (common boa).
BCI x BCC - Boa
constrictor imperator x Boa constrictor constrictor
intergrade (cross).
BRB - Brazilian rainbow boa.
CCP - Coastal carpet python.
CRB - Columbian rainbow
boa.
ETB - Emerald tree boa.
FWC = False water
cobra.
GRB - Guyanan rainbow boa.
GTP - Green tree
python.
JCP - Jungle carpet python.
KSB - Kenyan
sand boa.
MBK - Mexican black kingsnake.
PRB -
Peruvian rainbow boa.
Genetics
Amel - Amelanistic (i.e albino).
Anery -
Anerytheristic.
DH - Double het.
Het -
Heterozygous. - An organism is a heterozygote or is
heterozygous at a locus or gene when it has different
alleles occupying the gene's position in each of the
homologous chromosomes.
Hypo - Hypomelanistic.
Numbers
1.2.6 - This refers to sexed animals. This example
would show
1 = Male.
2 = Females.
6 = Unknown
(Usually this would be in reference to juvenilles).
Feeding terms
PK - Pre killed.
FK - Fresh killed.
FT - Frozen
thawed (Defrosted).
Health
RI - Respiratoy infection.
Article and photo by
Biotope
Aquatics
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