Show & Tell
This Scaleless Hypo A & Sunkissed corn demonstrates the typically random and sparse exhibition of scales that are small, irregular, and atypical compared to the classic scales of scaled snakes. What you are seeing in this snake is the color and pattern that lies below the upper epidermal SCALE layer of a corn snake. Fortunately, many of the scale aggregations are in fundamental body locations. In most Scaleless Corns all/most of their ventrum (belly) is covered with virtually normal ventral scales. Likewise, many Scaleless Corns have fringe scale placement at the edges of their mouth. ALL Scaleless corns in the hobby toDAY (including scaled corns that are carriers of the Scale-less mutation) are descendants of the original pairing of a Corn Snake to an Emory’s Ratsnake (aka: Great Plains Ratsnake) and are therefore technically inter-species hybrids. Bonus pic