Tangerine VS Hypo/Super Hypo

[karebear]

Would you consider Hypo and Super Hypo a term or a morph?
Is a Tangerine a morph based on color or a morph based on genetics?
How would you breed to get a Tangerine?
This Leopard Gecko is advertised as a Hypo Carrot Tail? Looks the same as a lighter colored SHTCB?
I would like to know the difference because I want to purchase this type of gecko but I want to make sure of its morph.

 

[acpart]

Hypo and super hypo are generally considered to be a morph, though I don't think there is any official, standard definition of "morph" (or of much of anything else for that matter).

"Tangerine" is generally considered to be polygenetic, meaning that the genes for it are not simple recessive/dominant/co-dominant. Consequently, the best way to achieve it is by a method known as "line breeding": breed the best examples of tangerine to each other and continue to refine by holding back and breeding the best offspring. This often results in breeding siblings or parent to offspring, which is acceptable as long as unrelated geckos are crossed in every few generations (so as not to overdo the inbreeding).

There are many strains of tangerine and many different colors being called "tangerine" ranging from nearly red, to deep orange to more of a gold.

As far as the pictured gecko goes, I can't really see it that well and even if it were bigger, it's easiest to make an assessment on a gecko photographed from the top rather than from the side.

Here is a brief guideline to tangerine (your color may vary) morphs:
--superhypo=no body spots
--baldy=no spots on head
--hypo=10 or fewer body spots

Superhypo's may appear to have been born with a banded pattern, a jungle/stripe pattern or a patternless stripe pattern. Although no one seems to be really sure how this works, there does appear to be a (dominant in my opinion) genetic factor at work with the striping. There have also been people who feel that the hypo/superhypo trait is genetic.

Hope this helps.

Aliza