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This looks to be a pic of a northern ringneck and a really light colored southern or prairie ringneck snake. The light one, looks either leucistic or hypo. I'm not really familiar with prairies much though, so I wouldn't know if that is normal color or a color morph. Any opinions?
Michael

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Holy cow, I have no idea what it is but where did you get all this exciting photos.

That is awesome..I would say leucistic
Coop

I am not terrably familiar with ringnecks but the colour (Canadian spelling KICKS A$$) almost reminds me of a T albino ball python (http://www.newenglandreptile.com/ball_caramelalbino.html). I would expect a leucistic to be completely white, like a luecy ball python or Texas ratsnake.

PS - Micheal, do you have any brachystoma available, I remember you advertising them in the past. How many? What Prices? Can you ship them to Canada? E-mail me at jehanna@cyg.net

Thank You
Cam Hanna
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I think it is hypomelanistic because hypo means lack of melan or black pigment and it appears to lack melan. A luecistic would be white with blue or black eyes. Hypo is my bet

In the photo the skin between the scales looks black. A true albino should not have any black pigmentation. Whet colour are the eyes?
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I'm thinking it has a leucistic color to it, even though it is not white. It has black eyes. The snake has a purple color to it, a very interesting snake indeed, as southern ringnecks, or prairies, do not have colors like that.
Michael
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I say hypo. Or just some abarrent color that is rare. Maybe even a new sub species lol.
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Justin

Leucism is when the very cells to produce pigments are completely gone, not just the pigments themselves. This produces a white animals ie: leucy texas rats, leucys black rats, leucy ball pythons, white gators, etc. The fact that you can see a yellow ring on the snake and a purple colour to the skin suggest to me that there are pigments present and thus not leucism.
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