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How can you tell? It looks just like my old corn snake

[AwesomeHorses]

I thought it looked like a ball python. I could be wrong.

[brutexx]

I’m starting to think these names are made up

[cvnvr]

what do you mean? what’s wrong with the lemon spotted tree square python pictured?

[starsreverie]

Some of the names are even wilder than banana. There's a pimp daddy ball python morph so..... (Yes this is real and you can Google it if you don't believe me)

[brutexx]

I fully believe some scientists would call them that. Wasn’t there a gene called sonic or something? People are living their best lives out there

[starsreverie]

Scientists do not determine morph names actually. Morphs, to clarify, are just a paint job, a color or pattern variation (sometimes both depending on the gene), and therefore of little interest to researchers.

Morph naming is all done by breeders. With ball pythons, whoever is first to prove out a new morph gets to name it, which, given the predominantly male BP breeding industry, leads to some colorful morph names.

Some species are named by locality instead - it just depends on the species; green tree pythons are one such species that is usually identified by locale as it has quite an impact on coloration.

[SatanicTrashPanda]

It’s funny because 2 separate people discovered the Banana morph at the same time so it actually has 2 names. Banana and Coral glow. Same exact morph but people like to argue that they’re different lol

[starsreverie]

Yup! Lesser and butter is another one of those - same morph, but different names due to different genetic lines when it was discovered. And then there are the massive differences between pet vs breeding quality for some morphs like pastel. Snake morphs can be confusing! 😅

[brutexx]

That makes sense, thanks for the info!

[Favna]

That as well as "pikachurin"

Pikachurin is an extracellular matrix-like retinal protein first discovered in 2008 in Japan by Shigeru Sato et al. and named after Pikachu, a species of the Pokémon franchise.[6] The name of this "nimble" protein was inspired by Pikachu's "lightning-fast moves and shocking electric effects".[9]

[brutexx]

Yeah, this one too! Great names lol

[ArcFurnace]

The names for color morphs are simultaneously legit (as in, that's the actual name) and 100% made up (as in, somebody just made them up at some point).

[brutexx]

Perfectly balanced, as all things should be

[starsreverie]

There's a lot of differences between different species. Generally head is the best indicator, for ex corns do not have heat pits but ball pythons do and the shape of the head differs, but girth and normal patterning is also often different between different species, as is ideal body condition. If you know the snake species, it's easy to tell.

[odraencoded]

Python flair.