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2014 Male Scaleless Snow Corn.  Inset Bubble view offers a macro look of the neck area to show you the barely visible yellow that borders the white band margins.  He is currently about 12″ long, eating unaltered frozen/thawed pinky mice.  His $1600.00 usd  price includes        . . .

Different pose and lighting of the same snake. I love the white face bands. 

Hybrid History Of Scaleless Corns:

In 2012, we were fortunate to acquire several different color and pattern morphs of Scaleless Corns from Stephane Rousselle in France.  He has many dozens of different color and pattern variants of this unique mutation.Just as seed-less grapes are not really devoid of seeds (they are simply small seeds), scale-less corns have SOME scales.  The entire bellies of most are classically or partially scaled, and random fragments of scale patterns are seen in varying degrees elsewhere on their bodies, from one individual to another.  I hear comments like, “eeeeyewww, the face looks freaky” or “why are the eyes so disproportionately large?”.  The eyes are not disproportionately large per body size, but in the absence of scales around them, a super-protruding appearance results. Of course, no two biological forms are precisely identical, but add to that the color and pattern variability and the infrequent scale placements and Scaleless Corns take “no two alike” to a whole new level.  Exactly where there are a few scales on their body renders a veritable unique fingerprint for each individual snake.  Regardless of how many and where scales are sparsely located, the predominant lack of scales results in a more deeply-saturated color exhibition.  Who knew that the armor (scales) of serpents actually rendered a dilution of their here-to-fore unseen color brilliance?  Few corn snake mutations are capable of altering mutation and morph compounds as dramatically as the Scaleless mutation.  Have fun mixing and matching myriad color and pattern potentials with this new and variable mutation.  

The originator of the Scaleless mutants in France (Richard Dijoux) https://www.colubiasnakes.fr indicates on his web site that they originate from pairing an Emory’s (Great Plains) Rat Snake with a Corn Snake.  Hence, ALL Scaleless corns in the hobby toDAY are technically inter-species hybrid mutants (though 1st cousin species). 
 
Inter-species Hybrids:  The VERY first Scaleless snake in the corn snake hobby–AND the patriarch of all Scaleless “corns” toDAY–was the result of pairing a WHEAT (what some Europeans call the Emory’s/Great Plains Rat Snake) to a CORN Snake.  The owner of those snakes reported that only one Scaleless snake hatched from that marriage; THE patriarch of all Scaleless corns toDAY. Therefore, beginning with the F1 generation–and all subsequent generations since–at the time of this writing, all Scaleless corns toDAY have Emory’s Rat Snake genes in them (one DAY the scale-less mutation will be demonstrated in pure corns, as with ALL reptile species on this planet).  Of course, either via polygenetics , gene mutations  or both, just like all dogs toDAY are selective variants of wolves (therefore, all dogs technically ARE wolves), after a few generations of breeding these Scaleless “hybrids” solely to corn snakes, less and progressively less of their ancestral phenotype will be visually evident. A parallel is that the Dachshund genetically IS a modern wolf variant, but when you look at such a modern dog, do you see ANY resemblance to a wolf?  Polygenetics and mutations have distinguished Dachshunds from other dog breeds and their wolf ancestors. Fortunately, even the first F1 out-bred Scaleless Corn already looked like one, since black and white photos of Corns and Emory’s Ratssnakes are virtually identical in pattern.  Other inter-species hybrids in our hobby toDAY include (but are surely not be limited to) Creamsicles and Ultra/Ultramels.