Show & Tell
Male 2013 visual-het Leucistic Gray-banded Kingsnake (Lampropeltis alterna). Most visual-het Graybands demonstrate a Hypo-esque look that is common in snakes that are het for the gene mutation, Leucism. In fact, like the inheritance of most Leucistic serpents, the Leucistic Gray-band is dominant to wild-type (not recessive). Therefore, most F1 out-crossed progeny (hets) have a pale hypomelanistic-type phenotype similar to visual-hets of the other leucistic mutant serpents. Aside from the inherent value of the Leucistic Homozygote (pic 2) pattern-less and color-less Leucistic Alterna, the visual-hets are stand-alone beautiful “morphs”.