whoa... why don't i just stop posting and cancel my bp.net account right away. please members of the bp.net community forgive me for ever deciding to post in a thread!
a lightening or darkening can be misrepresented as a hypomelaninstic or hypermelanistic. remember this is just an example im using here. you and i may be able to tell the difference between a genetic trait and a misrepresentation but to the person that can't then the lighter or darker bp has just been successfully misrepresented as a morph that it is not.
now you see the actual genetics have not changed but the morph has due to misrepresentation. im glad i could teach you something new!