>>Where does an axanthic fall in regards to color on gbk's?

I hope I don't botch this up, but I believe Bechtel describes anery and axanthic as synonymous terms, or at least, he uses the word axanthic in place of anery, for herps.

Red and yellow pigments are classified as the same type of pigment cell called xanthophores. Different degrees of intensity controlled by different genes make them yellow, orange, or red. But us herpers coined the term anerythristic to differentiate between a lack of red xanthophores and yellow xanthophores, in other words, to differentiate phenotype. Genotypically, or at least "cytotypically", they should all be called axanthic. (Confusing, because doesn't the prefix xanth- mean yellow?)

But anyway, there's no such thing as erythrophores, according to what I remember from Bechtel's book on color mutations in herps. Since we think in terms of red color in GBKs, we usually say anery, but I think Bern Bechtel wanted to get rid of that term.

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