I'll have to disagree with Jake on this one. Since noone has actually done any chemical testing in these animals to find out exactly what causes certain mutations, we can only go by appearance, and definitions of phenotype in other species. I guess what I am saying, is I think it would be even more confusing if Michael Joliff, Snakekeeper, and VPI all had diffenert names for the same mutation (Axanthics). We assume by the apparent lack of xanthrophores, that they aare the same, but they are not compatible. However, chemically, we believe the same thing is occuring in these snakes. The same rule could apply to Kahl and Sharp line Albino Boas. There isn't too much argument out there that both lines are forms of Albinism, but they just aren't compatible.
I guess, I think that it has been handled correctly, and people just need to do a little more research when buying a morph that has incompatible lines. Also, I think the guys that really care about preserving certain lines pay very close attention to tracking their bloodlines, and marketing there snakes to represent exactly what they are.
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