The term "melanoid albino" is a contradiction. By definition, an albino has NO melanin. Clearly, this axolotl has melanin, as demonstrated in its dark eyes.
The photo is not really clear enough for us to see whether it has iridophores, but if it does have iridiphores, then it's a leucistic. And if it does not have iridophores, then it's a WHITE MELANOID, not a melanoid albino.
If you look here:
Axolotl - Farbgenetik, you see that ambystoma.de refers to a white axolotl with black eyes and NO iridophores as a "
Melanoide Weißlinge."
They also state that the term "Weißlinge" can be used interchangeably with the term "
Leukistische", which means that they are referring to such an animal as a "melanoid leucistic".
I would prefer to refer to it as a white melanoid instead of a melanoid leucistic, since leucistics DO have iridophores, but given only the choice between calling it a melanoid albino and a melanoid leucistic, I would prefer to call it a white leucistic.
Albinos DO NOT have melanin anywhere on their bodies.
As far as these babies go, I am 100% sure that they are the following:
1) Either leucistic, or white melanoid. I cannot tell whether or not the eye has iridophores. If it has iridophores, it's leucistic.
2) albino
3) golden albino
4) wildtype. Wildtypes come in varying degrees of green and brown, and with varying sizes and amounts of spots. But the last two pics are definitely wildtype.
and 5) the "one more" is melanoid.
There's no doubt in my mind about these colors. Shizeric is mistaken.
