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Posted by shannon brown on July 21, 2002 at 01:38:22:
First I want to start by saying that the following is my opinion and nothing else.I don't need a bunch of people slinging mud here cause I don't have a deggree in genetics etc............
Anyways were do I start?I think the thing to keep in mind, and terry said it in his awesome article is that it would be to hard to change such names such as anerythristic hondurans to hyperethristics hondos?So with that being said lets begin.
I can say without a shadow of a doubt that the term hypo is the most overused and most vague word in the herpatilogical world.Anything that pops out of a clutch with one missing scale is hypo?I have heard guys talking over a incubater saying look I think thats a hypo?No its just a nice looking snake.
I have said before and I will say again that the true definition of hypo is the reduction of black.I do agree that there are differant levels of reduction and some are more hypo than others.
Lets start with the hypo honduran,Why are they called hypos?I have some that have half inch wide black bands?Now the black is changed in color but not reduced at all.Now there are some that are reduced as well and those are the better looking ones?(hence the degree of lacking).Why do they have red eyes?A true hypo doesn't change in eye color?Why do they look like there is a blueish hueh over there whole body?
Some true hypos don't have this?A hypo corn is a good example.I have some and they don't have that look at all and they have dark eyes.They just have reduced black or none at all on the good ones.
Another good example is the hypo sonoran gophers and the hypo bulls.They still have lots of black just not half as much as a wild type.
I think the best one of all is the hypo pyros(don't get me wrong they are killer and I want some myself)but they are in no way hypo?They still have full crossovers its just a brownish/purpleish something or nother color.And they look like they have wax on them.
Why we are on the hypo pyro subject doesnit strike anybody but me that the fact that they are produced from the same clutches as the amels odd????????Its cause they aren't hypos?They are t+albinos.They are just another kind of albino.
Now getting back to the hondos,I have given it much much thought and I believe that what we call hypo hondurans are just another kind of albino.
Now,I think that the hybino will just be a dbl-albino snake and we won't really be able to tell other than breeding it to hypos?See,if it was a true hypo(like the hypo boas)then when the sunglow(hybino) was produced there would be NO white showing at all.It would be a two tone orange and red snake.Thats a true dbl-homo of hypo and albino.Its been done in corns and in boas.I have seen sunglow boas and there is no white borders around the blotches and they don't fade as adults.
The barkers have a boa that they call a t+ albino.Most people would call it a hypo.I am with them all the way and if they breed it to a albino and produce dbl-hets and then breed the dbl-hets the 1 in 16 will have white borders.
I have some knoblocki that I have been working with now since the early 90s and I am very close to producing hypos.I have line bred most of the black out of them.Now,henry dean has a knoblocki he bought at a show that he calls hypo and its like the hypo pyros.I would also say its a t+albino.I could be way of base here and like I said we can't really change the morph names that have been around longer than alot of us but we should research things more before slapping a hypo name on something.
I could probably go on all night about differant morphs its what I live for but you guys are probably saying to yourselfs that I am just repeating myself over and over.Its just that there are so many good examples.
Just a couple more then I will stop the torture.I know my bad spelling must be killing some of you.
The hypo temporalis is another good one.Its a t+ all the way.Not amel but albino for sure.
There are a few out there that were labled correct in the first place.I love the fact that pete calls his siniloans hyperethristic apposed to hypos.Thats what they are and probably anybody else would have called them hypos.
One more thing to think on,Have you ever seen a hypo black snake(indigo,black king,black rat,etc..........No cause they always call them t+albinos?ever think of that?
I will save the anerythristic vs. axanthic vs. hyperthristic for another chapter.
shannon brown
west coast hondurans
