jtrux said:I prefer the "ter-tul" pronunciation as used by my great grandparents.
Baoh said:Hypo with an exceptional reduction of erythristic pigment on the head scales. Not an anerythristic animal, though, as it still has some red.
I also like the purple-ish looking skin.
cdmay said:Baoh said:Hypo with an exceptional reduction of erythristic pigment on the head scales. Not an anerythristic animal, though, as it still has some red.
I also like the purple-ish looking skin.
This could still be a partially anerythristic tortoise if there is more than one gene involved with producing the red color in red-footed tortoises.
In corn snakes there are black and silver anerythristics and then anerythristics that have a sort of cinnamon or reddish brown color where there is certainly some 'reddish' gene involved. I haven't kept up with all of that stuff for a long time so I might be a little off, but I remember colubrid mutation pioneers Bill and Kathy Love and Dr. Bernard Bechtel saying that there wasn't just one gene controlling the red colors found in corn snakes.
JD's odd looking hatchling may in fact be expressing more than one mutation.
yagyujubei said: