Your opinion?
Posted 29 mei 2009 by Dirk Van den Abeelewe would like to know your opinion on this:
In lovebirds we have a dominant edged mutation and an autosomal recessive mutation called dilute. We also have a mutation which was in the past called ‘American Cherry, Golden cherry, etc’. In the international naming system we are using a translation of the Dutch term “pastelgezoomd” for this mutation which is edged dilute. The currently named Edged Dilute is also present in Bourke Parrots, Cockatiels, Forpus, Eastern Rosellas, and possibly at least two other Rosella species (and not through hybrids!). Here the birds also have different names.
The term “edged dilute” is for some breeders very confusing, because we also have edged and dilute as separate mutations. So we are wondering if it is better to improve on that term in the future.
There are a few possibilities:
- use ‘edgeddilute’ instead of ‘edged dilute’
- or we can name it ‘recessive edged’?
- or a new name??
We agree there is certainly a confusion issue when names overlap. We believe it is better not to use ‘recessive edged’ because this implies a recessive form of the dominant edged and more confusion. Blending the names together then suggests the Edged and Dilute are alleles and the bird is a heteroallelic specimen. So we believe that, if we have to change, a new name needs to be found, another term for ‘edging’.
There are a few other possibilities:
- ‘Scaled’
- ‘Daub’
- ???
- or we leave everything as it is..
So we would like to know your opinion on this?
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