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'New' morphs from Charles Pritzel's book

I'm surprised that no one has brought up the fact that some people claim the ultra morph is the result of crossing a corn with a grey rat snake. Is this a dead rumor now?
 
Thanks for the link. Some very interesting reading as is this thread. I am especially interested in learning more about T+ animals. This thread has more info on the subject than I have seen in one place. I have a W/C ratsnake morph that is, at least from what I have found over the last three years, unique. I have shared many photos (despite my lack of a true quality camera), and I have taken it to a couple of shows so that some who are more knowledgable than myself could examine it. I have gotten a mixed bag of opinions. Hypo, amel, and more commonly the T+ label. The snake has melanin. Its pupils are definitely black, and it has powder black striping and dorsal markings typical of the species P. quadrivittata x obsoleta. What I want to know from anyone who cares to respond is whether or not anyone can visually examine a never before seen morph and determine definitively whether or not it is a T+ albino.
 
Jim Godfrey said:
What I want to know from anyone who cares to respond is whether or not anyone can visually examine a never before seen morph and determine definitively whether or not it is a T+ albino.
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T+ albino is defined in the lab. It means an animal that has reduced or absent melanin on visual inspection, but in the ~lab~ it has tyrosinase activity present in its cells (tyrosinase is a key enzyme in the melanin synthesis pathway in all vertebrates; references available upon request). So unless T+ albino means something totally different in snakes, an expert can't tell you that without a blood sample.

Somebody hit me over the head if the definition is totally different in herps, OK?
 
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