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RE: Possible leucistic Ratsnake...(pic)

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Posted by: GRich at Sun Feb 24 20:49:32 2008   [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by GRich ]  
   

I agree, and I disagree. Let's see, how can I say this?

Leucistism is the total lack of pigment in the skin--close to what we know as albinism in mammals. You can have leucistics with pink eyes, which make them leucistics with albinism homozygous. On the other hand, you can have albinos which become so light that they are, for all practical purposes, solid white, but they are not leucistic. Ecdysis is the time when you can see the difference. My solid white albino will get a very faint, pale, rosy-pink color about him prior to shedding. My leucistics do not.

Scale-wise, my leucistics will have an occasional scale which seems to stand out defiantly against definition. That is to say, they will have one, or two scales with some color, either solid black or solid pinkish-red. My solid white albino does not have any of these rouge scales. He does, however, seem to be acquiring a very slight, over-all pink glow about him as he grows older. I think this is due to some barely perceptible amel-coloring coming in at the posterior, or trailing edge, of each of his scales, although, when you look at him, he looks white. I guess I notice the pinkishness because I see him so much.
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