An albino animal lacks colour, so it is white and most of them have pink eyes. It does not have the melanin that forms colour. 

A leucistic animal is light or white with normal eye colour, such as brown, blue, or green.

A melanistic animal has normal or regular colouring.

There is also a term called amelanistic, which is an animal that lacks colour in most pigments but not all, so it is partially albino, and can have pink or normal coloured eyes.

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