Zarafina Ermine Trace

prefix Ermine Trace · British Shorthair · line: Nadeya · both eyes blue · Variant known, this cat untested · also in its ancestry: Igor

Under the variant field this directory proposes, this cat would read DBE 161 x1|161 x2p. A carrier with no result of its own standing below more than one line nobody has sequenced. NO TEST EXISTS FOR EITHER and the scheme names both. 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

1. Zarafina Ermine Trace, BSH ny 11 68
2. Ermine Trace Enya, BSH ns 11 69, the dam of Zarafina Ermine Trace
3. Ermine Trace Nadeya, BSH ns 09 11 68, the dam of Ermine Trace Enya. a founder of this survey; no variant has ever been identified in this line

That is 2 recorded parent links, and the animal at the end of it has never been tested, so the connection is a descent and not a result. Every step is a parent recorded in this register from a document; none of them is an assumption. The full genealogy is drawn below, and the sources for each animal are on its own page.

Save this cat as a PDF the connection, the genealogy and the source on one A4 landscape sheet, carrying this directory's name and address

Three or more variants could be present in this cat

DBE-ALT and Igor, unidentified and Nadeya, unidentified. MORE THAN ONE VARIANT COULD BE PRESENT IN THIS CAT: DBE-ALT, Igor, unidentified, Nadeya, unidentified. It is not established that any of them is, and it is not established that two are. A dominant allele comes from a parent, and this cat's recorded ancestry carries an attribution of each. The attributions above it are on CH Carajan zur Sternebucht, CH Du Blue D'or Argentin Nuance's Golden, CH Idefix von Konradsburg, CH Jadwiga's Golden Undina, CH Kandy von Romero, CH Lady Di von Wahrberg, CH Marvellous Silver Ramzes II, CH Ondra von Ursus Minor, EC Golden-Willow von Wahrberg, EC Maurice vom Wahrberg, Ermine Trace Enya, Ermine Trace Kashemir, Ermine Trace Nadeya, Ermine Trace Qorall, GIC Andy vom Wahrberg, GIC Marvellous Golden Radetzky, IC Goldfever's Golden Mikka, Jadwiga's Silver Classic Touch, Jaki Ami Sissy Crazy Blue, Leonardo De Cassis, Marvellous Golden Dream, Sonnyboy Zur Porta Westfalica, Tjarden von Felden. A CAT HOLDING TWO IS A COMPOUND HETEROZYGOTE, which this survey records as the state associated with deaf and dead kittens, and NOTHING BUT A TEST DISTINGUISHES ONE FROM TWO.

Computed from the recorded parentage at every build, counting both the variants this survey adopts and the ones it records a source claiming and does not adopt. IT IS AN UPPER BOUND AND NOT A FINDING: it says what could be here, never what is.

What is flagged on this tree

1. SCHOENWEG MONA LISA. Query. THE CHART RAISES A QUESTION ABOUT THIS CAT'S BLUE EYE AND DOES NOT ANSWER IT. Chart C13 annotates this animal 'Chinchilla-point with very blue eyes, possibly due to a blue-eye gene rather than the colourpoint gene'. A colourpoint cat is blue-eyed through the C locus, so a blue eye on a pointed cat is normally accounted for and carries no evidence of a dominant variant. THE COMPILER'S POINT IS THAT THE DEPTH OF COLOUR IS UNUSUAL, which is an observation and not a test. It is recorded as the query it is and no variant is adopted
2. SCHOENWEG TEODORO. Query. THE CHART RAISES A QUESTION ABOUT THIS CAT'S BLUE EYE AND DOES NOT ANSWER IT. Chart C13 annotates this animal 'Chinchilla-point with very blue eyes, possibly due to a blue-eye gene rather than the colourpoint gene'. A colourpoint cat is blue-eyed through the C locus, so a blue eye on a pointed cat is normally accounted for and carries no evidence of a dominant variant. THE COMPILER'S POINT IS THAT THE DEPTH OF COLOUR IS UNUSUAL, which is an observation and not a test. It is recorded as the query it is and no variant is adopted
3. ERMINE TRACE NADEYA. Attribution. THE CHART NAMES THIS LINE'S VARIANT AND THIS REGISTER HAD IT AS UNIDENTIFIED. Genealogy C13 is headed 'NANOTIGR BLUE-EYED BRITISH SHORTHAIRS, DBE-ALT' and writes DBE-ALT in red beside Oliver, beside Amelia Nanotigr and beside ERMINE TRACE NADEYA, who is the foundation cat of the Ermine Trace dominant blue-eyed line. THE ERMINE TRACE AND NANOTIGR CATS ARE THEREFORE ATTRIBUTED DBE-ALT BY THEIR OWN CHART. It is an attribution and not a test: no Ermine Trace cat holds a laboratory result, and the only result ever held for Nadeya was a colourpoint test at the C locus, which this register corrected on 17 August 2026. THE VARIANT IS RECORDED AS CLAIMED AND NOT ADOPTED, which is what the variant_claimed field is for, and the line stops being counted as a variant of its own
4. ERMINE TRACE QORALL. THE HIGHEST COEFFICIENTS OF INBREEDING IN THIS REGISTER, AND THE DOUBLED CAT CARRIES NO EYE CODE. Smile Ermine Trace returns 25.0 PER CENT on twenty-two unique ancestors of thirty, and Tanatos Ermine Trace returns 20.3 PER CENT on nineteen of thirty. In both cases ERMINE TRACE QORALL, BSH ny 12, STANDS TWICE: he is the sire of Smile and also the sire of Smile's dam Zarafina, which is a father to daughter mating; and he is the sire of Tanatos's sire Xrustal AND the sire of Tanatos's dam Zarafina, which makes those two half-siblings. ERMINE TRACE NADEYA, THE FOUNDER, ALSO STANDS TWICE ON THE TANATOS SHEET. THE REGISTER RECORDS THIS AS A FACT ABOUT THE MATINGS AND NOT AS A JUDGEMENT. What it shows is that the coded cats of this line are being produced by doubling back onto the line, WHICH IS WHAT A BREEDER DOES TO FIX A TRAIT, and that the animal doubled is one that carries no eye code at all
5. ERMINE TRACE ENYA. 68 AND 69 ALTERNATING DOWN A SINGLE-SOURCE DESCENT, IN A SECOND BREED. On these five sheets the line runs ERMINE TRACE NADEYA, BSH ns 09 11 68, to ERMINE TRACE ENYA, BSH ns 11 69, to ERMINE TRACE SAPPHIRE, BSH ns 09 12 68, to ERMINE TRACE JANTAR, BSH ny 09 25 68, to NEFERTITI ERMINE TRACE, BSH ny 25 69. FIVE GENERATIONS AND THE CODE GOES 68, 69, 68, 68, 69. The second branch does the same: Enya to ZARAFINA ERMINE TRACE, BSH ny 11 68, to FABERGE ERMINE TRACE, BSH ny 09 11 68. EVERY SIRE BROUGHT IN AGAINST THESE DAMS CARRIES NO EYE CODE AT ALL: Ermine Trace Kashemir BSH ns 11, Lusy-Mur Dionis BSH ay 11, Ermine Trace Qorall BSH ny 12, and no animal above any of them carries one either. THERE IS NO SECOND SOURCE ON THESE SHEETS. This is the Arst Venezia result reached again in a different breed and a different country: A SINGLE VARIANT SEGREGATING IN ONE LINE IS SUFFICIENT TO PRODUCE BOTH CODES. NOTHING IN THIS MATERIAL HAS BEEN GENOTYPED
6. ZARAFINA ERMINE TRACE. THE HIGHEST COEFFICIENTS OF INBREEDING IN THIS REGISTER, AND THE DOUBLED CAT CARRIES NO EYE CODE. Smile Ermine Trace returns 25.0 PER CENT on twenty-two unique ancestors of thirty, and Tanatos Ermine Trace returns 20.3 PER CENT on nineteen of thirty. In both cases ERMINE TRACE QORALL, BSH ny 12, STANDS TWICE: he is the sire of Smile and also the sire of Smile's dam Zarafina, which is a father to daughter mating; and he is the sire of Tanatos's sire Xrustal AND the sire of Tanatos's dam Zarafina, which makes those two half-siblings. ERMINE TRACE NADEYA, THE FOUNDER, ALSO STANDS TWICE ON THE TANATOS SHEET. THE REGISTER RECORDS THIS AS A FACT ABOUT THE MATINGS AND NOT AS A JUDGEMENT. What it shows is that the coded cats of this line are being produced by doubling back onto the line, WHICH IS WHAT A BREEDER DOES TO FIX A TRAIT, and that the animal doubled is one that carries no eye code at all | SHE IS THE DAM ON BOTH HIGH-COEFFICIENT SHEETS. Zarafina Ermine Trace is the dam of Smile at 25.0 per cent and of Tanatos at 20.3 per cent, and in both cases the sire is her own sire or her own half-brother

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

pdb-31

Sex

female

Cattery prefix

Ermine Trace

Breed, as stated

British Shorthair

Line

Nadeya

Eye status

blue: both eyes blue

Eyes, in the source's words

blue

Role

offspring

Relations named by the source

out of Ermine Trace Qorall and Ermine Trace Enya; dam of Faberge Ermine Trace and of Saturn Ermine Trace

Country

RU

Year

2019-11-29

EMS code

BSH ny 11 68

The code read out

British Shorthair; black golden; shaded; dominant blue eyes, written in the 68 series

The description held

NO WHITE CODE OF ANY KIND. The 11 and 12 in these codes are shaded and shell, which are tipping and not white spotting, and 25 is ticked tabby. THERE IS NO w, NO 01, 02, 03, 08 OR 09, AND NO 33 COLOURPOINT. A blue or odd eye on this animal is therefore not attributable to dominant white, to white spotting or to the pointed gene, and the coat excludes every alternative the register separates. SHE IS CODED 68 OUT OF A DAM CODED 69 AND A SIRE WITH NO CODE AT ALL

Evidence grade

Reported asserted, with neither a test nor a traced descent

In the register

• Parents: Ermine Trace Qorall, Ermine Trace Enya
• Offspring recorded in this register; a cat may have others: Faberge Ermine Trace, Saturn Ermine Trace, Smile Ermine Trace, Tanatos Ermine Trace

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.