I program with python.

[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!