Scientific Name: Python regius
Common Name: Ball Python
Morph: Lemon / Lime Hypo - "Desert Ghost"
Genetics: Unknown

These pics are of an adult female that was imported early in the year of 2000......I was sent pics of her while she was in Africa gravid. The trapper who found her did not want to let her go before she laid her eggs....he though she would produce albinos???.....well she laid 12 eggs and no albinos....imagine that...LOL!!! She was sent to me and at arrival I could not believe that she had laid eggs...she was still very chunky........needless to say the babies from her disappeared into the thousands of baby balls that are moved out of Africa to the pet trade etc.

This girl is gorgeous!!!......she is some type of hypo??????.......she is too clean and crisp looking to be a regular ghost......she has a nice yellow/light greenish color to her.......and her markings are very clean an distinct.....I know she can not technically be a hypo because she has black in her...........but her over all appearance says HYPO!!!!

There are a few ball pythons in collections right now that I believe are the same thing as the Lemon/Lime hypo..........they are being called Desert Ghosts. Hopefully one year we will prove this beautiful gene out!