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Submit a DNA-tested ball python

Help build a photo library where each label has a lab report behind it.

What to send

  • The lab report for this animal (PDF or image) showing which genes were tested and the result. Black out your name, address and email first. Keep the lab name, the animal ID, the date and the results.
  • Up to four photos of the same animal that you took yourself: head from above, head from the side, full back, belly. Natural light, no filters, no editing beyond cropping.
  • Roughly how old the animal was in the photos, since many genes change with age.

What happens next

  • Nothing is published automatically. A person reads the report and checks it against the photos.
  • If it checks out, the photos can appear on the gene page marked lab report seen by a reviewer with the lab, the report date and your display name, and you earn credits and points.
  • A reviewer can read a report but cannot prove it is genuine or that the photos are of the animal that was sampled. The label says only what was seen.
  • The report itself is never published. It is kept while your submission exists and deleted when you withdraw it.

Your rights and your privacy

  • You keep ownership of your photos. By submitting you allow WhatMorph to show them on this site, credited to your display name, until you withdraw them.
  • You can withdraw a submission from your account page at any time. That deletes the report and photos from our storage and takes the photos off the site within 7 days.
  • Your email is used to sign you in and to reply about a submission. It is not published or sold, and is shared only with the services that run the site.
  • Do not send photos you did not take, photos of someone else's animal, or AI-generated images.

Details: Privacy and Terms.

The form

Submitting as

Genes the report confirms

Pick each gene from the list and set whether the report shows it as visual, het or super. Not listed? Type it and press Enter.

Photos up to 25 MB each; your browser shrinks them (photos to 1,600 pixels, a report photo to 2,400) and removes location and camera data before upload. A PDF report is sent as it is and must be under 8 MB.