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CSRAJim
at Sat Oct 24 16:46:59 2009 [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by CSRAJim ]
Josh,
Nothing wrong with those photos and that's exactly what I'm talking about...
First, as I'm describing this stuff, this is for my purposes (I have no idea what others call it). Second, I'm not an expert...These are just my theories, ideas, etc...
From my own specimens and from seeing a few clutches of hatchlings, that is what "I" would call a combination pattern (lined x mottled)...You can call it what ever suits your purpose(s).
A consideration here is the additional coloration of orange within the pattern itself. I have one female that demonstrates the same pattern-color pattern. The orange between the lines so to speak...Ha! Ha!
The reduction and/or heavy black speckling is a phenotypical "expression" of the amount of melanin...If the melanin was very reduced, the genetic pattern would still exist but would not be expressed (wouldn't see it) as there would be no black to fill in the pattern (or some variation of it)...
Kind of like a coloring book for example...Until you colored in the pattern, it would be empty or void of color allowing another color that would be "masked" by the color black to express itself...Just an opinion & subject to any debate...
Hope this makes sense and that it helps...
Later,
Jim.
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CSRAJim
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RE: double-lined ventral pattern? - CSRAJim, Sat Oct 24 16:46:59 2009