As was discussed in the thread below, there are a few "hypoerythristic" pyros that have been called "anerys" although the term is imprecise, just as "anery" is imprecise for hypoerythristic hondurans, though there are hundreds of those and the "anery" term has been used almost exclusively to describe them (I shared Louis Porras' observations on that subject in my Sept 2002 Reptiles Magazine article, and argued for the adoption of the term "hypoerythristics" for the hondurans; i've tried to adhere to that but admit to having been inconsistent myself: right or wrong, if people don't know what you're talking about when you use the right term, it doesn't lead to good communication. I sometimes think it's fruitless.)



Nevertheless...in the spirit of the Princely rock music world...



I'd like to propose the morph formerly known as the "anerythristic" pyro be called by the proper term, "hypoerythristic."



Further...



In the past, we've used the term "hypo" as shorthand for hypomelanistic pyros. That's no longer useful, since there are now hypoMELANISTIC pyros and hypoERYTHRISTIC pyros.



I'd like to propose that in the future we either use the full terms--hypomelanistic and hypoerythristic--OR, in the quest for brevity, use the terms hypo-m and hypo-e.



What do you think?



LATER we can discuss what to call those pale hypos that popped up in my collection this summer (see thread above)



peace

terry

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