"Miss Thing"

[Blackwidow69]

:cool: :D This is our baby albino corn snake Miss Thing, shes real sweet and eatting 2 rat pink pups every 6 days..

[Blackwidow69]

:cool: And a face shot.. shes cute and pretty..

[Lisa]

cute. bigger pics would be nice.

[J_Riley]

Obviously, she's a northern snake, b/c if she was from the south her name would be Miss Thang ;)

[Vanan]

LOL JRiley!

[nicola_boulton]

Albino??? are you sure? i thought albino was all white. Please get back 2 me on this!!!

[Blackwidow69]

:cool: Sorry about the small pics i just cant seem to get them in bigger.. and yes the pics do no justice for this snake.. anyways a white corn snake would be either a snow corn or a blizzard corn, i had a snow corn real pretty all white with pink eyes , but she got out and havent seen her since...And yes she is a albino corn, and her colors are really pretty right after she sheds..:D

[eyespy]

Nicola, albino just means that a snake doesn't show melanin, the brown/black pigment. Snakes also have red and yellow pigments which can still be seen, quite enjoyably, in Miss Thing's lovely colors.

[Frankie]

She's a very nice looking albino. Love the color!

[nicola_boulton]

Thanxs to every1 who answered my question!!!

[fr0glet]

Originally posted by eyespy
Nicola, albino just means that a snake doesn't show melanin, the brown/black pigment. Snakes also have red and yellow pigments which can still be seen, quite enjoyably, in Miss Thing's lovely colors.

eyespye, amelanistic is only the same as albino when dealing with mammals.

I'm no genetic expert but I've had it explained to me thusly:

"albino: lacking all pigments
amelanistic: lacking melanin

Melanin is responsible for black pigmentation in snakes. In
mammals, it is the only pigment. In snakes, other pigments, erythrin and xanthin (responsible for red and yellow, respectively) also occur. As a result, an amelanistic mammal is an albino, but an amelanistic snake is not an albino. I think the mistaken use of 'albino' to refer to amelanistic snakes came from a misextension of the mammalian usage."

Quote courtesy of Patrick Alexander, genius.

~fr0glet

[eyespy]

Nope, that's not true at all! I've worked on a few projects with geneticists from the University of Pennsylvania for years and whether mammals, reptiles or avians, albino does mean lacking in melanin. They are always asking the exotics surgery department where I worked for tissue samples of aberrantly pigmented animals for study. Albino is the term geneticists use for the lack of melanin in any type of living thing.

There has NEVER been a documented case of any animal that totally lacks all pigments everywhere. Even leucistic animals have melanin, xanthin and erythrin (and carotenoids in birds) in deep muscle tissue, keratinized and myelinated structures. Albino animlals still have melanin in deep muscle tissues like their livers and hearts, although sometimes it's greatly reduced.

Here's a very basic description of reptile pigment genetics:

http://double-d-reptiles.tripod.com/genetics.html

[blito]

the snake in the Picture appears to be an Amel - or amelanistic meaning lacking melanine (black pigmant).
as such this makes them a strain of albino.
other strains of albino include the Anery (anerythristic or lacking red pigmant), snow (pink and white)and blizzard (white on white)
after that it starts to get confusing.
best to learn to recognize the different colour morphs of corn and just be happy with it as it is and not progress into the frighteningly complex world of snake genetics...