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Old 25-02-2008, 05:03 PM
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WTF What the Flippin 'eck (or other word of your choice)
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IBD Inclusion Body Disease (a disease found in boas and pythons)
PMV Paramyxo Virus (possibly wrong spelling, a virus that affects boas and pythons)
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MBD -Metabolic Bone Disease
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remember guys - we are in the snake forum - not the lizard forum. think we should restict it to snake related acronyms
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IBD Inclusion Body Disease (a disease found in boas and pythons)
PMV Paramyxo Virus (possibly wrong spelling, a virus that affects boas and pythons)
Its found in Boas but is leathal to pythons
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Superb thread, it is like a foreign language when you first start and this is great to refer to, thank you!
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Old 25-02-2008, 11:17 PM
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Its found in Boas but is leathal to pythons
it is found in boas and pythons, it is also leathal to boas and pythons, I can start a fresh thread if you want more details, or I can give you some links to sites that can explain it for you.
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yea guys and to anyone else, lets try to keep this thread as an info thread on acronyms and abbreviations - any squabbles or queries you can pm to the person
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hi guys - i remember when i first started i got confused by all the weird acronyms people kept posting on other forums, so i thought it may be useful to have a list available. feel free to add any i have forgotten

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arb - argentine rainboa boa
atb - amazon tree boa
bca - boa constrictor amarali
bcc - boa constrictor constrictor (red tail boa)
bci - boa constrictor imperator (common boa)
brb - brazilian rainbow boa
ccp - coastal carpet python
crb - columbian rainbow boa
etb - emerald tree boa
grb - guyanan rainbow boa
gtp - green tree python
jcp - jungle carpet python
prb - peruvian rainbow boa

other terms

cb - captive bred
cf - captive farmed
ltc - long term captive
wc - wild caught (or wild collected)

amel - amelanistic (i.e albino)
anery - anerytheristic
dh - double het
het - heterozygous -het - heterozygous - An organism is a heterozygote or is heterozygous at a locus or gene when it has different alleles occupying the gene's position in each of the homologous chromosomes
hypo - hypomelanistic

W.H.Y - what have you
1.2.3 - refers to sexed animals. in this example 1 male, 2 females and 3 unknown - male.female.unknown

pk - pre killed
fk - fresh killed
ft - frozen thawed

RI - respiratoy infection
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