In response to Geckoman,
The situation in birds is even worse! "lutino (producing a yellow bird) alexandrine parrots" are a short term result of crossing lutino indian ringnecks with alexandrines and then crossing back to alexandrines but then sometimes at 15/16 breeders will chuck a lutino ringneck back in the mix. The resulting birds do not look like alexandrines and all of the 1/2 and 1/4 birds are worthless awkward looking animals.
The situation with lorikeets is worse again. Now instead of just breeding trichoglossus species with each other to get mutations in other species, scaly breasted(trichoglossus sp.) lorikeets are being crossed with musk lorikeets (glossopsitta sp.) to move the lutino mutation into them, and lutino rainbow lorikeets (trichoglossus sp.) (already impure from hybridising with scaly breasted lorikeets) are hybridised with the foreign red lory (eos sp.) to move lutino into this species, not held in great numbers in australian aviculture. Then you find ads for lutino red lories that read;
This lutino red lory has been produced by hybridising but was NOT bred by the breeding of a red lory to a lutino trichoglossus/one of its parents is NOT a lutino trichoglossus. (so what was it bred with??)
I am personally opposed to hybrids, i love my beautiful snakes and beautiful turtles just as nature made them. I do acknowledge a difference however between deliberate hybridisation and where hybridisation has occured earlier in a line by misidentification or where two subspecies were once not recognised.
just my two bob and i hope we dont end up with a market flooded with homogenised "australian pythons" for sale