melanoid

Everybody has some melanin and melanoid in his skin, but blonds have less than brunets, white women less than white men, white races less than dark races.

In upper skin layers melanin disintegrates, turns into melanoid, the other pigment discovered in the skin by Drs. Edwards and Duntley.

There is a black variety of the chanko, as there is of the European wolf, and by some he is considered a distinct species, but is really a melanoid variety, though Kinloch writes: "The black chanko is rather larger than the grey one; he is of a beautiful glossy black, with a small white star on the chest and a few grey hairs about the muzzle."

Melanoid specimens have been found.

A melanoid variety of this species is mentioned by Dr. Anderson as being in the Leyden Museum.