Charcoal Black Pearl?

[Nynecho]

I am planning on buying another leo soon, and I have found one at a local pet store that I am interested in. He is about 7 inches and a pretty big boy. He has a soft chin and tail which is a plus for me, but the real seller is his coloration.

I don't have a picture of him, but I managed to find a couple pictures of leos that look like him.

He is mostly dark gray/black with a few spots more toward his tail. His tail is a dark gray with a bit of red at the base. He looks like a good mix of these two:


The first picture is one of David's Fine Geckos and is labeled Charcoal Black Pearl.
The second is one i just found on google that is labelled Hyper Melanistic Mack Snow.

Melanistic means that there was a mutation that causes intensely dark pigment often entirely black.
Does this mean that i found a very rare morph at a pet store again? Or is this gecko basically just a dirty regular? He does look like a very dark tangerine, but the thing is he doesn't have any visible yellow, just gray. It isn't even brown, just gray.

What do you think? I know he is melanistic because his tail is black, but could he be a charcoal or a black pearl?

 

[acpart]

As I see it, some geckos get their morph name because of a commonly recognized genetic trait (e.g. Tremper Albino), some get it due to a visual description of their color (e.g. superhypo, melanistic) and some because it refers to a particular line of gecko that someone has developed. It seems to me that the "Black Pearl" should probably only be used for geckos that come from that particular hypermelanistic line. In that case, you could call the gecko at the pet store "Hypermelanistic" but I wouldn't call it black pearl. As far as whether it's a rare morph or not, I think it's still a matter of opinion. For some people the hypermelanistic leo is leading toward the "holy grail" of a black leopard gecko. Personally, I consider the color to be pretty ugly and would think of it as a muddy wild type. Be sure, as well, that this isn't just a gecko going into shed. I've had them look pretty dark and then after they shed it was like a new gecko --bright and light.

Aliza

 

[Nynecho]

I usually don't find malenistic leopard geckos very pretty, but the actual gecko i am interested in buying looks more gray and less brown, has red on him, and has very few spots, so he is actually quite beautiful