I sit corrected on there being 3 separate loci of amelanistism in hognosed snakes. I had not heard of that.



My understanding of hybino hondurans is as follows -



Hypo hondurans are unusual in that they are called hypo due to reduced width of the black bands. Therefore they have wider red bands. When you breed this trait into an albino lineage, you would see a snake with wide red bands and narrow pink bands (where the black would be). So the hybino would have wider red and narrower pink bands than a normal amel.



The hypo hogs I have seen don't have the reduction of black pigment as localized, so it would be hard to see where they were lacking black once you removed the black pigment overall. I guess they could have a slightly more yellow/pink cast, but I imagine if you lined up 10 hybinos and 10 albinos each showing the range of variation within the morph, you would have trouble picking out which was which in every case.
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Chris Harrison

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