Quote Originally Posted by BUSHSNAKE View Post
as far as snakes go many morphs have been borrowed from another species thru cross breeding...many of the brook king morphs, albino speckled kings, albino greybands and so on are all thought to have borrowed a gene from another species cuz nobody has heard of a whitesided brooks or albino speckled king come from the wild. And the whole Avicularia situation...they are so variable which makes identification impoosible but ive never seen hybrid avics in the hobby.
that's kind of what I was getting at. Species of Avicularia such as Avicularia versicolor are visually different and do not need to be put under a microscope for identification. Avicularia avicularia how ever are just gathered from the wild and as so many different localities look nearly identical they are simply labeled up pink toe and sold in a pet shop which wouldn't be able to tell the difference even if the Tarantula could tell them. As a result many are then bred together and the offspring are sold on as A.avicularia and not as possible hybrids. I've heard of it in Brachypelma too.