Crazy Bombina

[Matthieu Berroneau]

Hello todos...
Look at this strange find the last week by to naturalists of my region...
3-4 youngs and some albino tadpoles betwen dozen of classic morph...

Is it not crazy ?

[Thomas Bader]

wow great - shouldn't this be published in a paper?

[Michal Szkudlarek]

I think it is albinism, like here- http://www.landesmuseum.at/pdf_frei_rem ... 1-0074.pdf

[Jeroen Speybroeck]

There seems to be quite some confusion on how different pigmentation anomalies are defined... Whatever it should be called, very cool to see!!!

[Michal Szkudlarek]

Ok, it is rather amelanism. It it was albinism, there wouldn't be yellow belly spots.

[Bobby Bok]

Crazy indeed, beautiful little critters!

[Matthieu Berroneau]

Thanks for supplements, very intersting...

wow great - shouldn't this be published in a paper?

Probably, if I find the time...

[Jürgen Gebhart]

Strange, way cool!

[Laura Bok]

Very cool, thanks for sharing!
Even if I´m running the risk of disgracing myself as totally ignorant - wouldn´t the eyes be red if it was albinism? I always thought it was easy to tell the two anomalies apart just by looking at the eyes...please, feel free to educate me .
Cheers, Laura

[Michal Szkudlarek]

Laura, not always. Albinotic people's eyes are rarely red, generally they are pale blue. Now I lean towards xantism, if it was albinism, the skin would not be yellow but pink...