Piebald/albin/melan/leuci... "-isms", what do they actually mean?

[eaglereptiles]

Let’s kick off the discussion and drop the answer to number 1, Banana

A lot of you guys did well here, others may have been tripped up by remembering that Bananas are a type of albino and maybe placed them in the same group.

@t_h_wyman

@eaglereptiles

Would Banana be a extreme hypo trait or is there something else going on?

Yes and no.

Banana, and any of the other T+ type albinos, are all different forms of hypomelanism. Which is to say, they all produce melanin to some extent or other but it is either at a reduced quantity, deposition, or display (finer points not needed for this conversation). So in that respect, they are the same

How they differ comes down to… Call it presentation.