Big congrats on producing a female Scott, I know how much that means to you.
I does actually look similar to the lavander corn, which some describe as and anery with a reduction in melanin as well.
I agree that the term hypo is generally used as short for hypomelanistic. This snake appears to have reduced xanthin,erythrin, and melanin. Silver is it's name, which describes it just fine, but I would like to suggest that perhaps a technical way to describe it would be "hypochromanistic". Because it is reduced color pigmentation in general, yet not elimination of a group or all pigments. Alternatively it could be described as a "hypomelanistic anerythristic", or a hypomelanistic axanthic, but then people would call it hypo anery or hypo axanthic for short, which is confusing because it sounds like reduced anery or axanthic effect, so "hypochromanistic" seems easier to relate and less confusing.
Just suggestions for thought.
Again big congrats Scott, I will be interesting to see how this gene interacts with others, and the future combos it will produce regardless of how it is described or classified.
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Jeff Benfer
gartersnakemorph.com

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