Identifying Butters and Lessers

So I know this is probably a totally newbie question, but I still have a problem identifying Lessers vs. Butters. I was looking at some new additions in the BP picture forum and someone that had recently gotten a Lesser, looked to me as a butter. The way that I was told to ID butters vs. lessers was that the flames on the side of butters were a "butter" yellow color vs. the grey flames of a lesser. IDK if people sell lessers as butters and vice versa, but any tips to help me ID them would be helpful!

Also, the thread in the bp picture forum was a Pastel Lesser, so not sure if that makes a lesser look more like a butter with taking some grey out of the side flames and giving them more of a butter yellow tint?

They are one in the same.... Butter is the same as Lesser... Just different lines of the same morph. There are lessers that look like butters and butters that look like lessers... Just call them the same thing and you will be correct.

They are the same gene, different lines.

More often what I see is dark, ugly ones are called butters and bright ones are lessers.

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one thing is definitively true: you can find all appearances, all of the spectrum, labeled as both butter and lesser. so when searching for something to buy, just look for both and buy what appeals to you.

i think its the same gene. but i would call the ones that go towards silvery grey colors lessers, and the ones that have more golden brown colors butters.

Thanks for the input. I had seen some opinions around the two being different so this helps clear some of those questions up.

Generally, I think of it as the more muted, greyish toned animals being Butters and nice bright clean coloring as Lessers. That seems to correspond mostly with what I see folks advertising their animals as.

Same genetic mutation. Different lines.
If there is a lesser that looks a certain way, there's a butter out there that is identical. Both mutations have the same variation in individuals.

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What is meant by "different lines"??

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Originally Posted by Mephibosheth1

What is meant by "different lines"??

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Like family lines. Butter and Lessers are the same mutation. But both originate from two separate wild caught individuals. Lesser Platinum decend from Ralph Davis' Platty Daddy and Butter from the Bells.

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Different lines means 2 different people imported, named, and proved the genetics of the same mutation. There are a ton of different pastel lines as well as yb lines and a ton of other morphs out there.