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In s/w florida around the area of immokalee.the anery corn are very common in this area so what aboat(Immokalee corns).This is also the area where the first anery's was collected from.
And this is the only colour morph keeped it's latin term.

I would love to see a trade name for Anery A Corns. Black Corn is about the only one that is used. Shorter is usually better and I can not pronouce that one, but I would go with anything that was not Anery Corn.
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Joe Pierce
Snakes Alive!
"Home of the guaranteed feeders"
"If it won't eat, it is not worth a dime!"

Ok what do you think to (ebony corn) nice and short i don't think the name is taken.

I think anerythristic is perfect. It dosn't matter what morph it is included in it is still anerythristic, Unlike the terrible name bloodred, It is always descriptive. anerythristics have been bred into just about everything. Giving them a locale name at this point wouldn't make any sense.
If someone wants to breed pure locale anerythristic corns and put that locale name on them, I'm all for it. Otherwise you start another okeetee like problem, it would be very hard to ever offer a pure locale animal from that area without them asuming you are simply talking about anerythristics in general.

Attaching a locale name to an obviously color determined trait is a prospect I don't even want to consider. The destruction of the very meaning of the name "Okeetee" jumps to mind immediately, and the confusion of animals named for traits they do not visually carry also such as "bloodred" does as well.

Anerythristic is NOT the only morph to have kept its greek orign name. Amelanistic, and hypomelanistic are also of greek origin.

While I agree that anerythristic is not 100% accurate of what these animals are (there is some red coloration in these animals it seems), it is what they look like as babies, and it is what they have come to be known by 99.9% of the corn market.

If someone wanted to change the name to something they truly are, I might be interested, but don't jump out of the frying pan and into the fire in the process. Also, I would suggest that changing names of designated morphs is EXTREMELY tough, even when everyone agrees that the name needs to be changed.

Take my word on that one...
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Darin Chappell
Hillbilly Herps
PO Box 254
Rogersville, MO 65742

Amelanistics and Hypomelanistics have both kept their "technical" names and everyone knows what those mean.

It's a little late in the day to propose a blanket name change for Anerys, but Anery A, B & (heaven help us) C might give us more of a headache as we find out more about them. In fact now I think about it, I believe that Anery Bs are already known as Charcoals.

I certainly think that any new name should be descriptive of appearance, as a locale name will just cause more confusion. Ask the general Corn-keeping public what they think an "Okeetee" looks like and you'll get a whole range of different answers. Mostly ending with "...and here's a picutre of mine!" .

I agree with the above posts. There is too much confusion about some of the newer morph out there to start messing with one as old as anery. How about the Slowinski? Down here people are calling them Texas corns while most call them Kisatchies. That is alot like the Oketee problem. Although not as drastic, the coloration can be quite different from one specimen to the next. Some of the first ones caught were near the Kisatchie forest in Lousianna, but the name really doesnt work with one caught in Texas. Oh well just rambling I'll shut up now.
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1,0 snow
1,0 amel
1,0 kisatchie
1,0 aney stripe motley
0,1 normal
0,1 charcoal
0,1 motley
1,1 oketee
0,1 tx rat
4,5 ball python
1,1 dumerils boa
1,1 columbian red tail boa
1,1 green iguana
1,0 leopard gecko
1,2 dogs
freezer full of mice & rats

Since I am new to snakes. I am so confused about all this anyway. I would hope they would keep the names we already have in place. Otherwise, people who are new like me will never get the hang of things. LOL I hate being a beginner. You guys sound so good when you talk about snakes. So... keep talking and maybe I will learn something.