Quote Originally Posted by ConcinnusMan View Post
Speaking of different, Kris Haas found this cyrtopsis at the bottom of an empty swimming pool in Mexico. Hypomel/albino? First that I've seen or heard of. Nice!

Can someone explain to me how this would be considered hypomelanistic or albino? Isn't the definition of albino an absence of melanin (i.e. no black or amelanistic), and hypomelanistic would have reduced expression of melanin (less black than normal)?

I'm looking at this and seeing black, but it doesn't have the bright yellows of a normal. In my eyes it's hypoxanthic or axanthic.

As I say, that's what I would have considered it, I think this snake looks like a bleached our version of the normal, and I tend to switch off when it comes to morphs. But in this case my interest was peeked by the description of it as an albino.