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RE: Speckled King out

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Posted by: DMong at Wed Jul 11 13:44:55 2012   [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by DMong ]  
   

Yeah, here's where some of that can get pretty trick too along with many other pigment-related issues..LOL!

Melanophores - contain mostly melanosomes and are capable of two forms of pigment production. Eumelanin is brown to black and pheomelanin is orange to rust or rusty brown.

So apparently the orange/rusty-brown colors don't always necessarily pertain to xanthophores.

I have a feeling that this awesome "hypo" BRB might be a perfect example of this too.


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