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hypomelanistic rattlesnake

A term I had not heard of. Tan in color, not white with yellow spots like the amelanistic snakes you often see (that most people mistakenly call albino).
A term I had not heard of. Tan in color, not white with yellow spots like the amelanistic snakes you often see (that most people mistakenly call albino).
 
Hypomelanistic simply means reduced melanin (for anyone who was wondering).
 

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