Proving GTP Locality

[Mudimans]

Michael, i enquired about the man who rang me, apparently he is the head ranger there :shock:. I'll have to give him a ring tomorrow and try and sort it out but you'd think being in his position he'd have a better grasp of the realities of the situation

 

[dihsmaj]

Can I just ask, what's the big deal with not having a pure Aussie Green Python?

 

[wranga]

Can I just ask, what's the big deal with not having a pure Aussie Green Python?

its like drinking muddy water

 

[dihsmaj]

its like drinking muddy water

it's like not having australia full of only australians

 

[ad]

Can I just ask, what's the big deal with not having a pure Aussie Green Python?

It depends if you want purity,
Aussie GTPS have white dots on their dorsal line, if yours doesnt, I would be suspect

 

[Ozzie Python]

Can I just ask, what's the big deal with not having a pure Aussie Green Python?

about an additional $11 to go towards DERM's christmas party

 

[solar 17]

lts been pretty clear for many years to my knowledge:
non natives = lnternational licence, natives recreational licence(2) any more and you go to specialist and for all the wrong reasons paying that $11.00 in the end would be cheap (imo)...solar 17 (Baden)

 

[Waterrat]

Can I just ask, what's the big deal with not having a pure Aussie Green Python?

You're completely missing the point but that's your problem.

Michael, i enquired about the man who rang me, apparently he is the head ranger there :shock:. I'll have to give him a ring tomorrow and try and sort it out but you'd think being in his position he'd have a better grasp of the realities of the situation

Hear Rangers are just that - head rangers. Need I say any more. They free-range. LOL

 

[kawasakirider]

So is the above post 100% correct? All Aussie GTP's have white dots along the spine, and if not it's suspect? Can some genuine Aussie GTP's not have a line, hence raising suspicion?

 

[Doc]

Waterrat is 100% correct about the DNA evidence ... problems are 1) that there is no way to split southern NG and Australian and 2) only the female cytoplasmic mDNA effects the test ... so if you take a Sarong GTP and cross it with a female Aussie, the offsping will test as an Aussie even though it is half Sarong and then in you take a female half-blood from that cross and cross it with a Sarong again you end up with a snake that is 3/4 Sarong, looks like a Sarong and tests as an Aussie. Whoever is asking for DNA proof is perhaps a tad ignorant ...

 

[DanN]

White stripes or not you cannot tell Australian green pythons from exotics just by looking at them.

Yes you can separate Australian green pythons from the rest using genetics - even mitochondrial genetics.

Doc is partially right. If you can assume (and most of the time you can't, but hey) that the snake has not been outcrossed then mitochondrial DNA can be used to differentiate Australian animals from New Guinea animals (within a given degree of certainty).

 

[Waterrat]

Spot on Dan, that's precisely what my genotyping results indicated. When statistically tested, using the west PNG and West Papua as an outgroup, the histogram shows that the Aussie GTPs clearly fall into the Iron Range clade.

 

[Erebos]

I'm picking my first Gtp up in 2 weeks should I ask to see evidence to prove it's native but in saying that how would ppl get png ones here anyway