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    Default Re: Samurai lime green albino

    Basically they are only half Albino. The closest to a true Albino in Pacman frogs is the Phantom Pac. Color wise anyway.

    EDIT) Just to add an example. Rabbits, specifically the breed called New Zealand Whites. They are a white rabbit with pink or red eyes. Not an Albino, but a breed of white rabbits that are partially Albino and carry the gene for red or pink eyes. White fur adds sort of a misdirected conclusion that they are Albinos, but are not.


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    Wow this thread took off.lol

    Here is whats going on......

    Most humans and many animals with albinism appear white or very pale; the multiple types of melanin pigment are responsible for brown, black, gray, and some yellow colorations...............

    In some animals, especially albinistic birds and reptiles, ruddy and yellow hues or other colors may be present on the entire body or in patches (as is common among pigeons), due to the presence of other pigments unaffected by albinism such as porphyrins, pteridines and psittacins, as well as carotenoid pigments derived from the diet........


    ............................................ Some animals are white or pale due to chromatophore (pigment cell) defects, do not lack melanin production, and have normal eyes; they are referred to as leucistic. The direct opposite of albinism, an unusually high level of melanin pigmentation (and sometimes absence of other types of pigment in species that have more than one), is known as melanism, and results in an appearance darker than non-melanistic specimens from the same genepool.[4] Albinism-like conditions may affect other pigments or pigment-production mechanisms in some animals (e.g. "whiteface", a lack of psittacins that can affect some parrot species.).[5] Another is common in reptiles and amphibians: axanthism, in which xanthophore metabolism, instead of synthesis of melanin, is affected, resuling in reduction or absence of red and yellow pteridine pigments.[6] Of all these conditions, only albinism and melanism affect humans.

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