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Posted by Dwight Good on August 10, 2002 at 10:20:58:
In Reply to: Re: Are you sure about the bug-eyed thing?..... posted by herpnbrau on August 10, 2002 at 01:38:34:
:Another ? I do have, would be along the lines of what to tell the public about Leucesism over Albinism????????
:So far, from what was explained to me, Leucesim is a more complete form of Albinism....... Sound good???
Here is the definition that I have of leucism....
"Leucism is a hereditary chromatophore defect involving all chromatophores, and leucistic snakes have no functional melanophores or xanthophores, and very few iridophores. The term leucistic is derived from leukos, the Greek word for white. The word originated when knowledge of chromatophores was more rudimentary, and cannot even be found in the dictionary. It has, however, been used for years by herpetologists to identify these white mutants, and it serves in communication to distinguish them from other hypopigmented variants."
H.B. Bechtel, 1995. Reptile and Amphibian Variants. Krieger Publishing, Malabar, Florida
