It is available in "white" (light yellow), red, and black varieties.
Of these, the yellow, blue and black varieties are considered more sacred.
A very dark brown to black opaque variety is known as morion.
The red variety with black eye is the most common, but there are black, white and green varieties as well.
The others were the ordinary variety, all black, and somewhat smaller than this animal.
There are different color types, including white and brown, both retaining the whiskers of the black variety.
As for the black variety, no captain has returned home to parade its carcass.
This black variety was first imported into Britain in the 1830s.
"Our chances are just as good with the black variety," she muttered.
Chloromelanite is a very dark green to black variety.