r/torbico • u/Visible_Honeydew_941 • 8h ago

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Torbicos are calico cats with large sections of tortoiseshell “tortie” like markings that also have tabby stripes in those areas. It is not an officially recognized pattern. Icon is u/JessTVaz’s baby

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Calico cats are created by their (at least 2) X chromosomes having different coding for orange or black areas, and these two different cell clones drifting. Thus, have large areas of black or grey, orange or cream, and white. Tortoiseshell ("tortie") cats are a type of calico with extremely little to no white and a dappling of black/grey and orange/cream. Calicos with tabby markings are called colloquially called "torbies". Calicos with tortie sections are colloquially called "torticos". Torticos with tabby markings are thus colloquially "torbicos". Your vet and licensing agencies will not have torbie, tortico, or torbico in their drop down field for colors/coat pattern. You should label said cats as, in order: tortie/tortoiseshell, [tabby] calico, and [tabby] calico. Tabby is in brackets because if you can only chose one, chose calico.

Here is a guide to the specific kinds of tricolor cats.

Remember how there must be least 2 X chromosomes for a cat to be a calico? This means all "male" calicos are intersex males, because they must be at least XXY - thus not fitting in the XY perisex (edges of the sexual spectrum) male. They are marked by ✨ because they are rare, like Pokémon shinies.

A full torbico has tabby stripes in all their colors, otherwise the color that has tabby stripes is indicated. So an orange tabby torbico has stripes only in their orange sections, grey tabby diluted torbico only in their grey sections, etc.