Heres the problem, the mustard doe not have normal side markings. Hmmmmmmm I ask questions here because I do something to ask about. When I ask about how does an exanthic have brown. I ask for a reason.
It appears hogs can make Brown, without yellow or red. If you look close, the brown on axanthics is a weird brown. It normally occurs on the head and tail. If you look at normal hogs, the brown on the tail sometimes does weird things, maybe a way to describe it is, Hollow brown.
That mustard is indeed a hypo, that is, its lacking a high degree of melanin. Where black would be on a normal, it has brown. And black borders and black on the mid side spots, is very normal. In fact, its how I find them in the field. I can see the rows of black dots at distance. Of course, it does have melanin, just much less then normal, which is what hypo means.
The next problem is, it may not be a good Idea to compare kennerlyi oddballs to existing nasicus morphs. As its possibly a whole new ball of wax. But then it may not be as well.
There is no question, some of these are lacking only red, but then that has to be improved(and proved) genetically, right?
Some of my disagreements with Troy was over this, nasicus morphs were established with far fewer founders that I am looking at. An example is, nasicus axanthics were established from one, possibly two founder snakes. I have seen 8 wild axanthics, and as shown, of different color types. Folks like Troy are prone to be bible thumpers, that is, force what they know on others. When in fact what they know is very limited. That is based on very few animals.
So here we are with a new gene pool, which may or may not be similar to nasicus. particularly in non recessives. pt1

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