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Ceylonese as pick up only sales ???

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I have enquired with two breeders of ceylonese as far as availability. One breeder (A) doesn't have any yet this year and the other does. The one breeder (B) with says they can only be picked up and not sent state to state. Breeder A has never heard of this and ships his all the time.

I looked up molurus on the FWS site and it lists the Indian python as the only ESA listed. This matches up with Indian python, CA sales only, ads seen on kingsnake in the past.

Now as far as my state, NY, the Ceylonese is the only legally kept molurus as of post Jan 2005. The Burma and Indian are listed as illegal to own, breed, etc.

Am I missing anything here, or could breeder B be under the impression that the Ceylonese python is classified similarly to the Indian?

I've asked them and waiting their response, have sought info from fellow Fauna folks.

Thanks,
Alan
 
I own one. I've always thought that they can not be shipped. That's what I was told when I purchased him.
 
The FWS listed the date that the Indian Python got added as an endangered species as 1976. It might be that the Ceylonese didn't have its own species name at the time and some may view it as follwoing under the Indian?

As of yesterday, there is no Ceylonese listed on the site. Hopefully I'm correct and get some shipped to me when available.

Anyone with personal conenctions to FWS or related positions?
 
USFWS does not classify pimbura as a valid subspecies. For purposes of the ESA, they consider it to be just a locality variant of the Indian python.
 
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