Wiktionary
melanophore
n. (context biology English) A cell containing melanin or other black pigment, such as are found in fish, amphibians, and reptiles
Usage examples of "melanophore".
In the cut section you see the difference between melanophores here, and allophores, here.
Mitch's had closed even earlier, and their cheek patches, the variegated melanophores, had faded back to normal as well, though in Kaye's case they had left small, trapped pools of freckles.
His cheeks flared golden and pink, melanophores shaping at first a series of flower-petal rawshocks.