Well,..they certainly look to be a "form" of albinism. From what I can see, the eyes are deep ruby-red as well, and an overall very light apperance, and certainly not T-neg.. I guess they could also be catagorized as a "lavender" albino too, which is usually something reserved for what most suspect as being tyrosinase positive. But who really knows,....without a laboratory "dopa" test, who really knows any of this for absolute certain, that has always been the "assumption" anyway.



I'm really not sure how those originated to tell you the truth. It looks like a very good phenotypic representation of lindheimeri, but from many years of experience, one can never exclude the possibility of there not being other obsoleta complex involved in the lineage to any varying degree. After all, they are virtually identical meristically to several others in the obsoleta complex, and other underlying pigmentation in their color scheme can be surprisingly variable too.



But to be quite honest, in my opinion those are pretty darn interesting to me whatever the case may be there. I think you did real well scoring those guys!





best regards, ~Doug
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