Why do leucistics have red pupils?

[loonunit]

Does anybody know why leucistics have red pupils? ... I just bought a super mojave (Hooray!) and I really thought her eyes would look more like my pastel's green eyes. But no, she very obviously has a red pupil, just like the black-eyed lucys on constrictors.com. And my pastel very obviously has a black pupil.

What's going on?

[OhhWatALoser]

Does anybody know why leucistics have red pupils? ... I just bought a super mojave (Hooray!) and I really thought her eyes would look more like my pastel's green eyes. But no, she very obviously has a red pupil, just like the black-eyed lucys on constrictors.com. And my pastel very obviously has a black pupil.

What's going on?

because super mojave arn't true leucistics is the simple answer. true leucistic animals have no skin pigment and normal eyes.

I don't know what your asking tho? its red because when you get a super mojave, it effects the genes that control pupil color.

[loonunit]

I don't know what your asking tho? its red because when you get a super mojave, it effects the genes that control pupil color.

Yeah, but albinos have some color, but their eyes are all red. Whereas leucistics have almost NO color, but their irises have SOME color anyway?

(Okay, you got me, I don't really know what I'm asking either.)

[OhhWatALoser]

Yeah, but albinos have some color, but their eyes are all red. Whereas leucistics have almost NO color, but their irises have SOME color anyway?

(Okay, you got me, I don't really know what I'm asking either.)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leucism

all depends on what gets changed in the genetic code, it because god made it that way lol.

[JLC]

It's actually a good question, and one I've wondered about as well. The PUPIL shouldn't have any color at all...because it's not a physical structure, but an opening. The IRIS is the colored part that we're used to noticing, and it's the iris that comes in the colors we enjoy such as brown, black, green, or blue, and red in albinos. The pupil is just the hole in the eye that allows light to reach the retina. This is usually seen as black unless light reflects through it and back out. (Red-eye on a human photograph is light reflecting back through the pupil....same with the green eyeshine of a cat at night or deer in your headhlights)

So why does the pupil of some animals look red even under normal light conditions? I don't know. Maybe there is some slight difference in the eye structure that allows more light to reflect off the retina and be more clearly visible than usual? Just a seriously wild guess on my part.