morph ?

[jakejeff]

when someone say's they have a " Leucistic leopard gecko " what exactly is it a patternless or blizz? If anyone has a pic please post it!

[beth wallbank]

this is a leucistic. Patternless the same thing. Blizzard is it's own morph, and breeding the two morphs together results in the banana blizzard.
This is a picture of a patternless (leucistic) leo

[beth wallbank]

and this is a blizzard

[Linds]

Leo morphs are a little screwy so people often get s confused. Truth be told there is no such thing as a true leucistic leopard gecko. People often label patternless as leucistic, but that cannot be the case as a leucistic animal lacks ALL pigment, and patternless leos do have pigmentation. Last I knew they were attempting to discontinue the term leucistic in that application. Another little boo boo is the "hypo" leos. They are actually a reduced pattern, not hypomelanistic. Hope this helps :)

[HQReptiles]

Hey Linds, not to completely disagree, but wouldn’t a hypomelanistic leopard be one with less melanin (i.e.: less black)? Our "Hypo" leopards hatch out with out black banding, its usually purple. They then develop some black spotting on their tails and maybe a few on their heads but never get any black on their bodies. To the best of my understanding this would be consider a hypomelanistic trait, reduced black.

Matt.

[Linds]

Hypos are typically defined as an overall reduction in melanin, hence the spotting wouldn't be black, it would be faded. There isn't reduced black, there is reduced spotting in the hypo leos, hence why I prefer to call them reduced patterns. For instance, when you have a hypo ball python or hypo rainbow, there is still the same amount of patterning, but the intensity of the melanin has been "watered down". Hope I made sense with some of that....lol :p

[HQReptiles]

Fair enough.