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I have been having trouble keeping the lingo straight for different morphs of crested geckos. It just took me quite a while to track down a complete explanation of what people meant by "phantom pinstripe", or "patternless pinstripe." Does anybody care to share their favorite/most complete online guide to different morphs? Or maybe the most up-to-date, since new morphs are always being named? Or do I just have to depend on the individual breeder who coined the name to describe the morphs in every case?

Angus

Pangea Geckos have a nice "guide" to some common patterns, there is also a description of some of the more common ones in the "Rhac bible" I don't have a link to the book now but someone should. There are also some more obscure "morphs" which I personally think should be called patterns, because they are not proved genetically, and if mixed don't turn out distinctly one or the other, they just kinda blend. But there's like Dutch pinstripes and Halloweens and all kinds of others. I just buy what I like, :/

If you are looking at colors/morphs/patterns such as patternless pinstripes, you most certainly are looking for information past the more accepted names such as Flame, Harlequin, Pinstripe, Reverse Pinstripe, Bi-Color, Moonglow, etc.
My suggestion is to be very careful with other names outside those offered on some of the more popular sites as they may be regional names that may not carry over that well nation wide.
As suggested earlier, look for an animal color/pattern you really like and go with that.
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Wally
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Well, actually, I am interested in any guides that people consider definitive. I understand flame and harlequin very well, but I've seen some geckos listed as "pinstripe" that didnt' fit what I thought the definition meant--an animal with crests running the length of its body, highlighted in white/cream (basically a white stripe that runs along each side of the animal's back until it meets near the base of the tail). But I've seen many animals with no white or cream described as pinstripes. Case in point, this video on youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NrNLrZ-wb4I They call that animal a "partial pinstripe", but I don't see any white at all. Perhaps this is all just a case of other people's errors and not my misunderstanding. I have figured out that a reverse pinstripe seems to mean an animal that has crests all along both sides of its back, without the whitish color...at least I think that's it. I was just hoping somebody knew of a resource that was the most definitive.

Maybe the link works better if I add it like this.