Jeff,



I think i remember our discussions a year or so ago boiling down to whether it was more appropriate to call all hypo & albino morphs "albino" or whether it made more sense, given your issue that both deal with reduced levels of melanin, to call all hypo & albino morphs "hypos".



I argued: "hypo"melanistic means reduced melanin; "a"melanistic means no melanin.



It can be argued that an amelanistic animal has reduced melanin (yeah, it's totally reduced) but that it can't be argued that a hypo has no melanin.



To me, this puts the "call them all albinos" argument to rest.



It then makes MORE sense to have two terms, describing two different effects & appearances, which gives us more specificity, than one which is overly broad and not as descriptive. (In other words, it makes sense to distinguish hypos and albinos).



That, I think, is where i ended up after long, long discussions a long time ago. So people, jeff especially, throw your darts!



terry

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