updated: 16 April 2025
I have noticed that most of the time the color morph is placed first and the trade name at the end. Examples:
Ardentiella sp. ‘Ember Bee’
Ardentiella sp. ‘Pink Lambo’
Ardentiella sp. ‘Red Diablo’
Armadillidium vulgare ‘Orange Vigor’
Armadillo officinalis ‘White Pina’
Cubaris sp. ‘Amber Ducky’
Cubaris sp. ‘Amber Firefly’
Cubaris sp. ‘Blonde Ducky’
Cubaris sp. ‘Blue Pigeon’ *
Cubaris sp. ‘Dark Phipun’
Cubaris sp. ‘Orange Freezy’
Cubaris sp. ‘Pink Panda King’
Cubaris sp. ‘Red Panda King’
Cubaris sp. ‘Silver Tiger’
Cubaris sp. ‘Snow Queen’
Cubaris sp. ‘White Head Ducky’
Cubaris sp. ‘White Shark’
And then the opposite is used on some others, sometimes:
Cubaris sp. ‘Daxin Tricolor’ *
Cubaris sp. ‘Thai Angel Blue’
Then there are the two color names combination:
Cubaris sp. ‘Caramel Cream’. Initial trade name is: Cubaris sp. ‘Caramel’, and then the Cubaris sp. ‘Caramel Cream’ was developed.
Then I noticed that when the color morph “pied” and “koi” are used, they are placed at the end:
Cylisticus convexus ‘Ukraine Pied’
Porcellio ornatus ‘Orange Koi’
Porcellio scaber ‘Orange Koi’
Porcellionides pruinosus ‘Orange Koi’
Porcellionides pruinosus ‘Red Koi’
I am a bit confused with the dalmatian color morphs though. Sometimes I see the ‘Dalmatian’ in front and the color morph at the end, and sometimes the opposite is used. To keep everything uniform it should be the color morph first, like we see in the first list on this article. But when we have, for example: Porcellio scaber ‘Dalmatian’ and Porcellio scaber ‘Dalmatian Orange’ *, it makes sense to put them all together, on a long list of isopod morphs. Then we can clearly see there all the available color morphs under the dalmatian phenotype. Otherwise they are separated from the other dalmatian color morphs, if we would use for example the form: Porcellio scaber ‘Orange Dalmatian’.
Fellow perfectionists can understand my concerns 😁
P.S. The results are from google searches, and from what has been used the most. For example we see the combination: C. Red Panda King, more often used, than C. Panda King Red. For other combinations it’s 50/50. Example: Cubaris sp. ‘White Panda King’ and Cubaris sp. ‘Panda King White’. Unfortunately, google search doesn’t include the number of results anymore. But in that regard all Cubaris sp. ‘Panda King’ color morphs should be kept together, with the color morph placed at the end. I told ya it wouldn’t be easy! 😂
* These will be available soon btw 😀
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