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Posted by paalexan on August 04, 2002 at 10:35:17:
In Reply to: The quotes meant de-funk..as in GET THE FUNK out..more posted by jeff schofield on August 03, 2002 at 21:17:10:
:Patrick, I understand the meaning of "hypomelanism" but what I dont understand is the LABEL attached to certain MORPHS calling it a "HYPO"--this is why you will always see me use "" around the word.
I'm not sure where you're going with this, then. Hypomelanistics are called hypomelanistic because they're hypomelanistic. Using only the `hypo' is just something lazy people do when they don't want to write the big long `melanistic'. Where's the problem?
: Every horse is a mammal, but every mammal is not a horse!! This is the arguement as hypomelanism can be used to describe a large number of morphs including every albino(amelanistic).
Hypomelanism and amelanism are different things. Certainly you could call an amelanistic animal hypomelanistic, but then you'd just be wrong.
: Who designated it "HYPO"?? Why is it therefore possible to have more than 1 type of hypomelanistic gene but only 1 "type" can be called "albino"??
There's no type of hypomelanism that's a type of albinism. An animal is albino if it has no pigment, as mentioned earlier. Hypomelanistics have reduced melanin, but still have melanin.
And there could be any number of different genetic bases for albinism, and all would still be albinism. (as it would happen, there aren't -any- genetic bases for albinism in milk snakes, but I think that's been covered already)
: I have had this same arguement on the milksnake forum and would like to see more of a scientific approach to naming these morphs.
That would be very nice to have when some are calling this gene "HYPO" and some "ALBINO".
If anyone's calling a gene `hypo' or `albino', they're simply misusing the words. `Hypomelanism' and `albinism' are, as previously mentioned, descriptive of an animal's coloration (i.e. phenotype) and don't mean anything regarding an animal's genotype. `Hypomelanistic' simply isn't the name of a morph, nor, by its usual scientific use, can it be the name of a morph.
: I believe the cornsnake guys have it right when they deferred to"anerythristic a,b,c"instead of simply justifying it "HYPO". So lets say this isnt "albino A", it may very well be "albino b" so why not call it what it is?? While these names are young and we arent yet in love with them lets correct them. The classification system demands it doesnt it??Jeff
I'm afraid you'll have to explain the situation with milk snakes more clearly... given as what I don't keep milk snakes and don't have much interest in them, I really haven't the faintest idea what you mean by people `justifying it hypo' (which doesn't make just a hell of a lot of grammatical sense, either), and simply couldn't say what the correct use of the terms would require.
Patrick Alexander
