Tosha,

What you are describing fits more firmly to the debate over T /T/-T albinos, not so much with leucies. If the animal has areas that are white, with lack of patterning(once again yellow splotches are fine, just no alien heads like a true albino). There does not need to be a test done, these are leucy, no if ands or butts about it. Once again a white animal with non-red eyes, and no patterning is a lucy. For example, you wouldn't call one of Tom's Crystal Balls a lucy, because even though it is predominantly white, with dark eyes, it still has discernible pattern, just as you wouldn't call a snow ball(axanthic albino) a lucy, because every animal produced so far still has some patterning to them; but if you were able through selective breeding to remove the pattern completely, then it would just make the snow ball a multi-trait lucy, though they would be VERY hard to reproduce due to the many factors involved. This would result in a red-eyed lucy, just as if you made an albino super mojave,etc.

Lastly, in reptiles Luecisism in most cases is a description of phenotype(observable appearance) not a defined genotype. What this means is that there are multiple factors resulting in offspring that fall within the definition of a Lucy.


Hope this helps,
Dan

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