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aurora borealis corns?
- Thread starter sdmessmer
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princess
Cornaholic
Looks like someone trying to come up with a catchy trade name.
Aurora borealis is the formal/latin name for the Northern lights -caused by solar radiation hitting particles in the uper atmosphere and reflecting shimmering lights in the sky...or something along those lines.
....I think I might start up my own line called 'meteor shower corns'
Aurora borealis is the formal/latin name for the Northern lights -caused by solar radiation hitting particles in the uper atmosphere and reflecting shimmering lights in the sky...or something along those lines.
....I think I might start up my own line called 'meteor shower corns'
Baba-Lou
Snakeism Evangelist!
Well I live in the north where in the winter we get really beautiful Aurora Borealis. Heck even the Japanese come to this place to take pics of them. our Borealis is all green though but it is possible to see the reds and purples with different lens, so unless they mean the southern lights. (Can't wexactly remember the name)
ghosthousecorns
Well-known member
Reminds me of the 'cranberry corn' I saw last year (just a normal)
I think I'll call mine 'Asteroid corns' lol...
I wish people woudln't be so quick to come up with these names before their morphs get proved as something new through breeding trials.
I think I'll call mine 'Asteroid corns' lol...
I wish people woudln't be so quick to come up with these names before their morphs get proved as something new through breeding trials.
Tegucentric
Certified Reptiholic
All that is really useful beyond the scientific name is the genetic information.
Common names are worth little to nothing. There are no governing bodies ruling over which name is legit. Technically, common names are just a name commonly used to refer to the snake (or animal) in question.
But.. that's the only system we have, so that's the system we use. Since none of us have heard of an aurora borealis cornsnake, it's not really a common name.
Basically I could breed a new morph of snake and call it an aurora borealis, but if everyone else called it a Lime Okeetee.. It would be a Lime Okeetee.
Let's see if that stimulates some thought. :crazy02:
Rick
Common names are worth little to nothing. There are no governing bodies ruling over which name is legit. Technically, common names are just a name commonly used to refer to the snake (or animal) in question.
But.. that's the only system we have, so that's the system we use. Since none of us have heard of an aurora borealis cornsnake, it's not really a common name.
Basically I could breed a new morph of snake and call it an aurora borealis, but if everyone else called it a Lime Okeetee.. It would be a Lime Okeetee.
Let's see if that stimulates some thought. :crazy02:
Rick
ghosthousecorns
Well-known member
The main issue I have with catchy names is that people who are new to the game could get taken advantage of and end up paying too much for something that is commoner than the name leads them to think it is.
On the flip side, I have a feeling when people really do come up with something new and try to market it with a new morph name it takes a lot of convincing before it gets accepted by the majority. In other words you'd have a lot of skepticism and opposition at first, especially if you aren't one of the better known names in the business.
I think a photo of the corn in question would be a good way to help determine if this is something different. Of course it would still require some kind of breeding trials to tell if it is a new gene. Then again there's names that describe a snake's genes and others that pertain more to its appearance as in ghost (anery/hypo) versus silver queen or candy cane which describe a certain look to ghosts and amels.
If everyone just came up with random names all the time it'd be chaos. I could sell stellar asteroid moonshine corns and the next breeder would have volcanic eruption magma corns, so IMO it's better that the morphs and types of corns be under some kind of guidelines. I think the corn community kind of polices itself in a way, but there's always going to be those who won't play by the rules. The bottom line, some people will do anything to make a buck, so caveat emptor I guess. (Buyer beware)
On the flip side, I have a feeling when people really do come up with something new and try to market it with a new morph name it takes a lot of convincing before it gets accepted by the majority. In other words you'd have a lot of skepticism and opposition at first, especially if you aren't one of the better known names in the business.
I think a photo of the corn in question would be a good way to help determine if this is something different. Of course it would still require some kind of breeding trials to tell if it is a new gene. Then again there's names that describe a snake's genes and others that pertain more to its appearance as in ghost (anery/hypo) versus silver queen or candy cane which describe a certain look to ghosts and amels.
If everyone just came up with random names all the time it'd be chaos. I could sell stellar asteroid moonshine corns and the next breeder would have volcanic eruption magma corns, so IMO it's better that the morphs and types of corns be under some kind of guidelines. I think the corn community kind of polices itself in a way, but there's always going to be those who won't play by the rules. The bottom line, some people will do anything to make a buck, so caveat emptor I guess. (Buyer beware)