an unnamed British Gems cream harlequin male photographed 27 June 2022

prefix British Gems · British Shorthair · one blue eye · No variant and no line attributed

Under the variant field this directory proposes, this cat would read DBE 161p. A carrier of a variant nobody has sequenced, on no named line. This is the group bare 161 exists for. The proposal is set out in full here, and no registry issues this field today: it is computed from the record at each build and is not part of any registration.

How this cat is connected to the trait

NO RECORDED PARENT LINK JOINS THIS CAT TO A FOUNDER OR TO A TESTED ANIMAL. What the record rests on instead is a variant a source attributes to it, unnamed dominant blue eye, which this survey does not adopt; and no recorded parent at all, which is a gap in the sources and not a statement that the cat had none.

No parent is recorded for this cat in the register, so no genealogy can be drawn. That is a gap in the sources, not a statement that the cat had none. Any offspring the register holds are listed below.

What is flagged

1. AN UNNAMED BRITISH GEMS CREAM HARLEQUIN MALE PHOTOGRAPHED 27 JUNE 2022. THE CATTERY HAS A WORD FOR THE SECTORAL EYE AND USES IT AS A CATEGORY OF THE DOMINANT GENE. The page lists the dominant phenotype as 'two intense blue eyes, odd, OR POLYCHROMIC, or latent'. It also describes them separately: 'Another possibility in the eye colors are SPLIT, OR CRACKED EYES. These eyes have both orange as blue in them. On show they are not appreciated as much as odd eyed.' THAT IS THE PHENOTYPE OF THE CREAM HARLEQUIN BOY, and the cattery treats it as belonging to the dominant material rather than to the white | ONE OF THE PHOTOGRAPHS IS CAPTIONED 'BRITISH GEMS SOPHIE: SPLIT ODD EYED AT BOTH SIDES', so a second cat of this prefix carries it, ON BOTH EYES. Two more are captioned 'British shorthair with both eyes cracked, the blue and orange flow into each other' and 'Blue eye cracked with a part of orange' | THIS REGISTER'S COAT TIERS CANNOT SEE ANY OF IT. A sectoral iris is a feature of the eye and not of the coat, and the cream harlequin boy would be filed under HIGH WHITE and not counted

A flag is not an error. It marks a place where two sources say different things, or where an attribution cannot be made on the evidence held.

The record

Register id

bgm-97

Sex

male

Cattery prefix

British Gems

Breed, as stated

British Shorthair

Eye status

odd: one blue eye

Eyes, in the source's words

SECTORAL: one iris amber throughout, the other part blue and part orange within the single eye

Certificate wording

the breeder's own words: creme harlekin boy with much color and odd eyes; British shorthair recessive genes; one eye has blue part orange; mother lilac tricolor odd eyed; father cinnamon harlekin

Role

other

Country

Belgium

Year

photographed 27 June 2022 as a kitten and again as an adult

Photograph credit

cattery post, 27 June 2022

The description held

CREAM HARLEQUIN WITH A SECTORAL EYE. One iris is amber throughout and THE OTHER IS DIVIDED, PART BLUE AND PART BROWN-ORANGE WITHIN THE ONE EYE, shown in two close photographs. He carries 02 harlequin white, which this register tiers as HIGH WHITE and does not count, SO THE COAT TEST WOULD HOLD HIM APART. He is entered because the sectoral pattern is a feature of the iris and not of the coat: white spotting decides whether pigment reaches an eye at all and so gives a whole blue eye or a whole pigmented one, NOT A DIVIDED ONE

Evidence grade

Reported asserted, with neither a test nor a traced descent

This directory is a working aid compiled from published charts, registry documents and breeder statements. It is not a register and it has no standing of any kind. The grade attaches to the animal, not to the line: a cat whose ancestor was genotyped is line-traced, not genotyped.