Yeah, I remember that post Zenny made a good while back too. As long as a snake has an OVER-abundance of yellow pigment(xathine), and the phenotype is not from a lack of other pigments, then it would be very acceptable and accurate to call them "hyperxanthic".

Now technically, even if a given snake doesn't prove the particular extremely yellow phenotype to be 100% reliably heritable, the individual specimen itself would still technically be "hyperxanthic", it's just that we as breeders, and the hobby in general tend to coin traits that ARE passed onto the offspring far more reliably so we can label them as a particular type, and not simply a variant.


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