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Sunherp
at Fri Jul 2 10:25:00 2010 [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by Sunherp ]
Thanks, buddy! She's a great catch and more than tolerant of my "eccentricities" (snakes, cigars, etc.).
Morphs? Credited to my name? Nah! I've found some odd animals, but none that I collected since I wasn't interested in working with them. Odd Coluber, Patternless/orange-splotched Crotalus viridis (did keep them for a while), etc.
I've found several milks that would be hypoerythristic (not true anerythristic, since traces of color are produced by the erythrophores. I've not gathered enough data to do anything more than suggest it's a heritable trait. Future pairings may clear that up. I've also got a number of milks with fading/disappearing patterns. Time will tell if this trait is heritable, too. To be honest, neither mutation is really something I'd seek to reproduce, though I wouldn't eliminate them from my breeding groups, either, and they're not that extreme.
L. t. multistrata - Bighorn Co., MT - "Hypoerythristic"?
"Normal", but dark, animal from the same locality
L. t. multistrata - Yellowstone Co., MT - Fading Pattern
"Normal" animal from the same locality
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Jeff... - Sunherp, Fri Jul 2 10:25:00 2010