No. Not necessarily. There are a very small number of people in the US producing true, pure pardalis pardalis. I only know of one man producing pure, location specific babcocki. Everything else is a gamble and would be really difficult to prove pure. Most of the babcocki available, the vast majority, are mixes of babcocki from all over the range. Some of these babcocki show certain traits that are characteristic of the pardalis pardalis, indicating at least some genetic influence. I know of at least two people that are knowingly interbreeding and don't seem to care. One of them is a big name breeder and he fraudulently sells some of his mixes as true pp.

Thanks for clearing up!