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just curious if these two morphs are possibly different alleles of the same gene the way striped and motley is.

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The only type of hypo which is known to be allelic to amel is 'Ultra hypo'. In this case, you have an incomplete dominance when one amel gene and one ultrahypo gene is present, and people call the appearance 'ultramel'.

Other forms of hypo which are NOT alleles with amelanism are: Hypo A, Sunkissed (Hypo B), and Lava/Transparent Hypo.

There are also several more varieties of hypo floating out there, which I don't know enough about to speak on.

Just for reference, when people use the word 'hypo' by itself, they're generally referring to 'Hypo A'. Hypo A is the most common form of hypo, and the oldest confirmed variant. So to answer your generic question... no. Amel and hypo are separate genes.

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