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FRoberts
at Tue Oct 2 08:03:00 2007 [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by FRoberts ]
>>For my two cents, hypomelanistic is just a description. Doug's snake clearly has fainter than normal striping and less melanin wash beneath the orange. Those two snakes look clearly different as babies but Doug's adult definitely has reduced melanin and that is what hypo means. I'll defer to your explanation Dwight - always have - but I wanted to weigh in on this discussion.
>>What about this snake? She has no trace of visible melanin anywhere so, by the straight definition, that makes it amelanistic. Any debate there?
>> ----- Thanks,
Frank Roberts
Roberts' Realm Of Reptile Research

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