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bluerosy
at Tue May 10 13:25:34 2005 [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by bluerosy ]
Lloyd Lemke was one of the first people to advertise the axanthic brooks on his pricelist. He had them listed as anerythristics and not axanthics. He mentioned in the ad that they looked like "blue wax" ..if that bring anyones memory back.
I was a friend of Lloyds and spent some time with him while living in Calif. I also shared a table with twice him at the Orlando Expo. He used to say that the anerythristic brooksi was NOT an axanthic and was pretty vehement about it. I was not interested in those blue looking speckled things at the time and did not pay attention to remembering what he said. The new "blue wax" brooksi where not very popular because people did not know what it was or maybe they just did not give it much thought because they did not like to try new things. A subadult yearling anerythristic male sat on his table for the entire 1991 expo priced at $100. It sat in a deep dish deli cup with the non see through white bottom. I thought maybe people didn't see it. I did not buy it either. I beleive he took it home with him. This was all in
Point is, this pioneer in in herpetoculture was staunch on something years before anyone questioned the axanthic v.s. anerythristic brooksi thing. It was after his death that I first saw the term axantic applied. I beleive it was Bob Fengya who talked a lot of people into this change.
The change also took place after started reading Dr. Bern Bechtels came book on morphs. I read his book and what is weird he lists a mostly red tricolor snake (can't remember the spp.) as a axanthic(?). Later on I asked him about this seeming inconsistent label and he told me the terms can be used interchangably. I had the feeling it was a typo and his publisher did not catch it. So i further question him about the brooksi and he said the terms can be used interchangably.
I also showed him some of my newborn Peanut butters which look lavender (T albino) when born and then explained they get pigment as they shed and grow. I asked him what this was and he just shrugged as if to say their hasn't been enough names invented to name all these morphs. He then said its probably a type of hypomelanism.
Bottom line all this naming of traits is something we don't have down to a sweet science and I am sure we will see the tables turn a few more times. In the mean time I liked the term anerythristic because that what they first were labled as and I liked the term because it is in rememberance of the late Lloyd Lemke.
Peanut butter brooksi
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Lloyd Lemke had it right back in 1989 - bluerosy, Tue May 10 13:25:34 2005