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All these special names...

Abbi

Abbi

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I see most everyone knows exactly what kind of corn they have, but I've just always thought I had an "albino corn snake" not a snow, or a champagne, or anything, I wanna know what he is so I can sound fancy too!
 
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That should do it. I don't have all these high-tech pictures of him like most of you do, but I will! Eventually!
 
Yay! Special names! Well lacking the black pigment, I believe is because he is albino. Correct me if I am wrong. So he is an albino Amelanistic corn snake?
 
Amels ARE albinos, but you wouldn't generally need to say it as such. It's usually just said as Amel or Amelanistic.
 
Some people call amels red albinos. They don't have black. Those people would call anerys (anerythristics) black albinos- they don't have red. I think amel and anery are more descriptive. I wouldn't use the term albino to describe either.
 
Basically, people who aren't "snake people" say albino.

Those of us in the know say amel or amelanistic :)

So, ask yourself..."Am I a snake person?" :)
 
Abbi,
I live a lot closer than these two jokers and I know all the special names.

So, How you doin? :wavey:
 
depends on your definition of albino. If your definition is something without melanin then yes, albino. The problem is lots of other morphs have no melanin, snows and blizzards for example. Thing is, snakes have 3 different colour cells(?) melanin, erythrin, and xanthin. That's why a corn with no melanin still has colour - while in humans we only have melanin so someone without it is white.

Or so I've read.

Cute amel, too.
 
How aboutAmelanistic Pantherophis Guttata? Is that Fancy Shmancy enough? Nice snake...Beautiful eyes...K:spinner:
 
v_various said:
...Thing is, snakes have 3 different colour cells(?) melanin, erythrin, and xanthin...
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The major types of colour cells you are referring to are 1)melanophores, 2)xanthophores (called erythrophores if they tend toward red colours) and 3)iridophores. The general term for these colour baring cells is chromatophore. Erythrin and xanthin are neither pigment cells or animal pigments. Erythrin is a colorless substances, and some xanthin based compound can be yellow, like uric-acid. The 3 chromatophore types named above are in the dermis, and black pigment cells found in the epidermis are commonly refered to as melanocytes. They are similar to melanophores, but function a bit differently. Black pigment is melanin, and yellow to red skin pigments (in reptiles) are most often carotenoids and pteridins. Carotenoids are assimilated from the diet, pteridins are synthetized by the animals (put simply). Both pteridins and carotenoids range from yellow to red. Iridophores don't really bare pigments, they are responsible for structural colors (like iridescences).

cheers
 
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Yah, that's an Amelanistic corn snake... I guess you could make up your own fancy name for an amel., but no-one would understand you.
 
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