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Hi all , I often saw some words which discrobe morph of animals , suck as "Anerythristic , Hypomelanistic" . I think the words is not English , can you tell me what language it is ?

Thanks .

The language is Latin. Here is a link to kingsnake.com' herpetological glossary with many terms that are commonly used:
Link

thanks .

Sorry to be picking nits here, but technically those words are not Latin, they're English. They just happen to be technical terms derived from another language, (in this case Greek, not Latin),

erythros = red
xanthos = yellow
melanos = black
a/an = not

All Greek, not Latin.

Sorry to be so pedantic.

Chris

Thanks for correcting me. An oversight on my part.
-Lizardman

Those particular words are Greek.

However, some scietific terms ARE Latin, some are hybridized Greek and Latin, and some words are from other languages, and Latinized. The latter is especially true of scientific names which may contain the name for a species in some Native Language which is then Latinized (or not) or the name of a person for whom a species is named which is then Latinized.

E.g. Lampropeltis getulus brooksi - the Genus is Greek, the species latin and the subspecies Latinized English.