We are now throwing out terms that are already being used in the same species.

Brian told me a few years a go in person (before his book came out) that he was going to start calling my Mendotas (hypermelanistics) "eiseni" to divert the locality (Mendota & Davis) attached to the snake in order to stop people from going to those locales and looking for those snakes.

The term Ghost/Palomar refers to a specific recessive gene which IS NOT the same recessive gene of hypermelanistic that occurs in Mendotas and Davis blackbellies). The Davis blackbellies and the Mendotas is the same recessive gene, but is NOT the same gene that is the Ghost Palomars.

Someone needs to breed the snake in this thread to a hypermelanistic to see if it is the same or to a Ghost/Palomar to see if it is the same.

A few years back I bred a Ghost/Palomar to a Mendota hypermeleanistic and produced double hets....they ARE NOT THE SAME gene.



Kerby...

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