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Jlassiter
at Thu Feb 11 18:21:11 2010 [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by Jlassiter ]
In (1990) college we were taught that Amelanism, Hypomelanism, Anerythrism and Axanthism were all forms of Albinism.....
It seems the term albinism was/is used not only for the lack of black pigment but the lack or reduction of any pigment.....
I argued the fact with my professor since I knew about Hypomelanistic and Axanthic snakes at the time, but I did not win.....It seems our snake community has just taken the term "albino" to mean lack of black pigment.....So has many dictionaries......
When I hear albinism I still think lack of melanin.....
Our vocabulary evolves all the time.....LOL ----- John Lassiter
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