Clay,
thanks, but I definitely didn't originate the idea of adding "type" after a locality name. However, as you said, there are not a big number of people using it. I am bad about it sometimes, though, and will slip into just calling something a Biak instead of a Biak-type.
But as you said, too many people just throw it around that because an animal looks like the generally accepted locality phenotype, it originated from that locality regardless. Look at the kingsnake classifieds for examples of this. I see ads all the time of people selling "Biak locale" or "Locality pure arus" and other similar trite. I have no problem with someone saying that it is an Aru-type or just plain saying Biak, but when they ad such taglines as "locale specific" and "locality pure," 99% of the people do not have what they claim. If you were to actually have true locality animals, they would have to be documented as to where they or the parent animals were collected originally(even though WC chondros are supposedly illegal to import, but that is another matter I will address in another thread). Also, thanks to the "locality craze" going on in the chondro market, many people are more prone to buy animals that sport the tags of "locality pure" as opposed to those that just say "type" or "unknown locality."
The unfortunate problem is that due to the amazing variability of chondros, an animal could be locality documented, and not match up with the accepted phenotype(there was an excellent example and discussion of this regarding Merauke chondros several weeks ago at chondroweb.com in the breeder forum). So you could have some of the animals being marketed as "Aru locality" that are in fact from Mainland Irian Jaya, but since they look like what Arus are SUPPOSED to, that is how they are being marketed.
Oh geez, I've ranted on this whole thing in an inappropriate forum. lol Nothing new about that
Thanks for the compliments Clay. Although I don't have any super high-end animals yet, I am very happy and proud of my chondro collection thus far and hopefully I'll be a proud chondro-poppa in the next few months
Cheers!