Quote Originally Posted by Russ Lawson View Post
Raphy,

While I can somewhat agree with what your saying about it being silly to call one line of reduced/banded balls tigers, the Jolliff tigers were around for years before the desert mutation was discovered, proven, then combined with enchi to make the new tigers. It doesn't really seem fair to me that the original tigers essentially have had their name usurped, especially considering the length of time that name had been established. Just because people might not consider that particular mutation all too significant doesn't really seem a good enough reason for it to have to give up its name to whatever designer mutation comes along that some people think deserve it more. Just like you said, there are so many other names that we can choose for them - why take a name that already belongs to another ball python mutation?
See I never said it was fair, as we all know sometimes life just isn't fair. The name "Tiger" has been stolen by the enchi x desert and the hobby as a whole has accepted that name as such. The other "tiger" in my opinion should just be called genetic banded since every post on it has to disclose that anyways because most people that search for tiger are in fact looking for the desert cross. So again, fair? No. Fact? Yup! We already have a genetic stripe name so what's wrong with genetic banded? Instead of "Tiger: joliff line genetic banded" Or "tiger: joliff line reduced pattern"