Category: Morphs

Fluorescent 2013

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Fluorescent (no aka)
Most Commonly Used Name:Fluorescent
Mode of Genetic Inheritance: Recessive & Selective Variation
Morph Type: Selective variant of single recessive mutation
Eye Color: Red pupil
 
A selective variant of the Amelanistic corn snake, similar to the famous Reverse Okeetee morph.  Fluorescent corns have much cleaner color zones, more deeply-saturated colors and generally brighter white blotch margins. Adults must be seen to be fully appreciated.  

Genetically speaking, Fluorescent corns are Amel corns that have been selectively bred to promote their target look (red or orange blotches on an orange background, with separating white blotch margins), but we have taken this to a new and better version by selectively toward cleaner color zones (less color interruptions and stippling).  Since the only gene mutation they possess is Amel, the obvious distinction between Reverse Okeetees and Fluorescents is the obvious cleaner color zones.

  

What to expect:
 Neonate Fluorescent corns vary little from neonate Reverse Okeetees, but even at that age/size, the colors are cleaner and more saturated.  Expect to see little or no color or white clutter in all color zones, and thicker white blotch borders than typical Amel corns.  Colors can vary from one specimen to another, but all have more deeply saturated oranges and less reds than their Reverse Okeetee counterparts.  
 

Important Note:
  These images are not renderings of the actual animals being offered, (except for uniquely offered snakes found in the SURPLUS section of this web site).  We do not provide pictures of individual hatchling snakes for sale, nor do we recommend that you ever choose a new pet based on an image of its neonatal form.  Corns change so dramatically from hatchling to adult, they will NEVER have the same colors or contrasts throughout maturity. While most of the snakes we produce will mature to resemble the featured adult image(s) on our web site, unlike manufactured products that are respectively clones of each other, the nature of polygenic variation results in each animal being similar but not identical to others of its morph. The snake we select for you may not mature to be identical to the pictured examples, but will be chosen based on our experience of observing which neonates will mature to properly represent their respective morph.  We take this responsibility very seriously, and therefore publish the guarantee that we will exchange your SMR snake if it does not mature to be like our advertised examples.

 

 

 

Buf 2013

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First, thank you, Chuck Pritzel and Connie Hurley of Cedar Creek Corns (https://cccorns.com/) for the beautiful male Buf I received from you in 2012.  
 
Buf 
Most Commonly Used Name: Buf
Mode of Genetic Inheritance: Dominant to wild-type
Morph Type: Dominant gene mutation
Eye Color:  Black pupil & body ground colored iris

The Buf corn snake was discovered by Jan Notte (corn snake breeder in Europe https://www.slangenbroed.nl/) in 2001.  It is the first corn snake gene mutation to be identified as being dominant to wild-type.  Buf corns are generally more yellow or gold than most wild-type corns and combining them with Amel (called ORANGE) they resemble Creamsicle mutants (Bufs are not hybrids).  Bufs are relatively new to the United States so expect to see many new morph compounds of this beautiful mutation in the near future.  

 
What to expect:
Hatchling Buf mutants remind us of hatchling Caramels.  Many of them resemble Caramel mutants, but become more gold or yellow with age.  As adults, they look nothing like Caramel corns.  
 
 

Important Note:
  These images are not renderings of the actual animals being offered, (except for uniquely offered snakes found in the SURPLUS section of this web site).  We do not provide pictures of individual hatchling snakes for sale, nor do we recommend that you ever choose a new pet based on an image of its neonatal form.  Corns change so dramatically from hatchling to adult, they will NEVER have the same colors or contrasts throughout maturity. While most of the snakes we produce will mature to resemble the featured adult image(s) on our web site, unlike manufactured products that are respectively clones of each other, the nature of polygenic variation results in each animal being similar but not identical to others of its morph. The snake we select for you may not mature to be identical to the pictured examples, but will be chosen based on our experience of observing which neonates will mature to properly represent their respective morph.  We take this responsibility very seriously, and therefore publish the guarantee that we will exchange your SMR snake if it does not mature to be like our advertised examples.

High White Reverse Okeetee 2013

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High White Reverse Okeetee (aka: High White Corn)
Most Commonly Used Name: High White Reverse Okeetee
Mode of Genetic Inheritance: Recessive + Selective Variation
Morph Type: Selective variant of single recessive mutation
Eye Color: Red pupil

 

High White Reverse Okeetees are variants of the basic Reverse Okeetee mutants (Amel is the only mutation known to exist in this morph).  Genetically speaking, Reverse Okeetees are Amel corns that have been selectively bred to promote their target look (Highly saturated blotch colors, separated from clean and unstippled ground coloration by prominent white blotch margins).  High Whites are selectively bred variants of Reverse Okeetees – toward the target phenotype of having the cleanest white ground coloration.  Since the only mutation they possess is Amel, the obvious distinction between any Reverse Okeetee and the average Amel corn is the distinctive color scheme.  Red or orange markings are not difficult to reproduce through generational line breeding, but the white background color is very difficult to achieve, and sometimes difficult to maintain through subsequent generations.  The white background and red (or orange) markings have been enhanced via polygenetic traits, modified through selective promotion of only the best target phenotypes. While we have greatly reduced the orange coloration in the ground color zones, even our best High Whites show a blush of orange between markings, especially on the first 1/3 of the body.  High White refers to the predominantly white ground color zones, but some also have atypically broad white blotch margins.
 
 

When breeding two Hifh White Reverse Okeetees together, because they are Amel mutants, you are assured of getting 100% amels, but factoring in the variability of the interactions between genes (polygenetics) means that not necessarily all the offspring will be marketable High Whites.  We cull out the ones that do not satisfy our quality standards for High White Reverse Okeetee color and pattern, and those are sold as Reverse Okeetee corns.

 

What to expect: 
As neonates, all High Whites are shockingly red or orange on white, but expect neonates and adults to exhibit slight amounts of pale orange ground color between markings, relegated mostly to the front part of the body.  I don’t recall ever seeing one that was completely devoid of color litter over the entire ground zones, but we’re getting closer to that  with  each generation.  If our High White Reverse Okeetee corns did not have such thick white borders, they would be perfect candy canes.  Some of the hatchlings displaying orange markings mature to have redder markings, and some of those starting with red markings change to orange.  About 75% of all our red ones stay red, and about the same percentage of the orange marked ones stay orange. 

 

Important Note:
  These images are not renderings of the actual animals being offered, (except for uniquely offered snakes found in the SURPLUS section of this web site).  We do not provide pictures of individual hatchling snakes for sale, nor do we recommend that you ever choose a new pet based on an image of its neonatal form.  Corns change so dramatically from hatchling to adult, they will NEVER have the same colors or contrasts throughout maturity. While most of the snakes we produce will mature to resemble the featured adult image(s) on our web site, unlike manufactured products that are respectively clones of each other, the nature of polygenic variation results in each animal being similar but not identical to others of its morph. The snake we select for you may not mature to be identical to the pictured examples, but will be chosen based on our experience of observing which neonates will mature to properly represent their respective morph.  We take this responsibility very seriously, and therefore publish the guarantee that we will exchange your SMR snake if it does not mature to be like our advertised examples.

 

 

2011 Kastanie

Kastanie (no aka)
Most Commonly Used Name: Kastanie
Mode of Genetic Inheritance: Recessive
Morph Type: Single Recessive Mutation
Eye Color:  Black pupil & body ground-colored iris

 

 

 

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What to expect:
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Important Note:
  These images are not renderings of the actual animals being offered, (except for uniquely offered snakes found in the SURPLUS section of this web site).  We do not provide pictures of individual hatchling snakes for sale, nor do we recommend that you ever choose a new pet based on an image of its neonatal form.  Corns change so dramatically from hatchling to adult, they will NEVER have the same colors or contrasts throughout maturity. While most of the snakes we produce will mature to resemble the featured adult image(s) on our web site, unlike manufactured products that are respectively clones of each other, the nature of polygenic variation results in each animal being similar but not identical to others of its morph. The snake we select for you may not mature to be identical to the pictured examples, but will be chosen based on our experience of observing which neonates will mature to properly represent their respective morph.  We take this responsibility very seriously, and therefore publish the guarantee that we will exchange your SMR snake if it does not mature to be like our advertised examples.

 

Sunglow Motley012013

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Motley Sunglow
Male
d.o.h. 2010
36″ long on January 18, 2013
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This 2011 Striped Sunglow Motley is 36″ long and eating frozen/thawed small adult mice. His parents are a Coral Salmon Motley x Het for Coral Snow motley.  He has not been cooled in preparation for the 2013 breeding season, but there is still time to do that. Some of his siblings included Coral Snow Motleys.



Sunglow Motley (aka: Sun Motley)
Most Commonly Used Name: Sunglow Motley
Mode of Genetic Inheritance: Recessive + Selective Variant
Morph Type: Selective Variant of Recessive Compound (Amel + Motley)
Eye Color: Red pupil

Many generations were spent in refining the beauty of the Sunglow Motley.  Their genetic mutation is officially Amel Motley, but they have been selectively bred toward the goal of deeply saturated red coloration and classically orderly Motley pattern.  For years, we were helpless to explain why the colors in this line were so deeply saturated and why they were redder than other genetic lines.  In 2009, one of our friends that wondered the same and conducted breeding trials to determine what caused the intense colors.  She concludes that SMR Sunglow Motleys possess the added mutation of what is sometimes referred to as Red Mask or Red Factor.  It is allegedly inherited in dominant fashion (it is a recently discovered mutation and is still poorly understood).  Once I validate her genetic inheritance findings, the price of Sunglow Motleys will increase, since they will undoubtedly become powerful genetic tools in deepening and saturating reds in other corn snake morphs.

 

Het Palmetto 2013

 

Palmetto Het (Heterozygote)
Most Commonly Used Name: Palmetto
Mode of Genetic Inheritance: Recessive to Wild-type
Morph Type: Simple recessive gene mutation
Eye Color: Black pupil and dirty white to silver iris
Price: $2,000.00 usd
 
 
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NOTE:  Male heterozygote and homozygote Palmettos will begin selling in 2015, and only 2015 hatchlings will be sold at that time.  Our marketing strategy of selling only female Palmettos until 2015 is practiced toward the goal of ensuring everyone that no one person will have the advantage of acquiring a male Palmetto before anyone else.  Continuing that logic, 2016, we may sell a few 2015 yearlings, and after 2016, perhaps Adults can be purchased, but until then, everyone who owns a Palmetto is essentially on an even playing field with all other Palmetto owners.  

Until 2015 or later, no Het or Homo Palmetto males will be sold, traded, gifted, or otherwise leave SMR.  Pictured is a typical specimen of corn snake that is Het for Palmetto (having one copy of the mutation and therefore do not have the appearance of the Homozygote/visual Palmetto).  Virtually 98 out of 100 are relatively tan-colored (compared to classic corns) and below the sides of the markings, colors tend to diffuse.  It’s amazing how little variance there is between Het Palmettos.  Few corns (if any) have demonstrated such a static phenotype for the genotype of a corn with only one copy of the Palmetto Mutation; HETS.  Some of our Het Palmettos are also het for other color mutations, but because they are the products of Palmattos X Het Palmettos, the only het mutation we guarantee is that of the Palmatto Mutation.  Other mutations that could be in the Het Palmettos include; Amel, Anery, Charcoal, and Stripe.  Suffice, the Het Palmetto you purchase will look similar to the picture above and will look nothing like the mostly white visual Homo Palmetto pic’d elsewhere on our web site.  

 

Palmetto Corn snake History:

Status of the Palmetto in the marketplace:
The adult male we have that was captured in the wilds of South Carolina in 2008 is the only one known to ever have been collected in the wild, and none have been produced in captivity until now.  In 2010 we produced several heterozygotes.  In 2012, we bred several of the hets together and back to the wild-caught adult male patriarch.  Ten homozygote (aka: visual) Palmettos were sold in the U.S. and Europe in 2012 and including our stock, no other Palmetto corns exist anywhere in the world.   
 
How the Palmetto Corn Snake got its name:
A perfectly natural trend exists in herpetoculture toDAY to sometimes hastily assign hopefully unique  names to newly-discovered mutations, morphs, or traits, but in the haste that often drives such assignments  – usually via desire to be the first to name the new morph – insufficient consideration is given to the potential that some of the phenotypes of the new morph may not have immediate and parallel association with the new name.  Historically, in our hobby, upon reading the name of a new corn snake morph, one should conjure a mental expectation before seeing it, and if that expectation is met, the morph name will usually be successful in the marketplace.  Because of the highly colorful nature of corn snake mutations and their selective variants, namesakes are usually colors, fruits, or candies. If the person naming the morph did his/her homework, the chosen names are accurate most of the time, but sometimes, it is discovered that not enough individuals were examined prior to naming.  This can result in the new morph name not accurately reflecting the appearance of most members of that morph.  In the absence of a regulating entity governing such name assignments, and because patents are not granted for corn snake morphs, anyone can assign names to corn snake morphs that they discover.  As it usually is with any product, success is ultimately dictated by the consumers.  If they like the name, it sticks.  This is notably demonstrated when two or more people producing the same morph have assigned different names to it.  One of those names usually wins out over the others, but there are cases where more than one name applies to the same morph, and a descriptor denotes the genetic family (usually the name of the respective gene/trait discoverer).
 
I labored over many names I thought were befitting this unusual and stunning snake, but most were already assigned to other corn snake morphs.  Keeping in mind that descendants of the wild-caught male may not have his general phenotype, I was dubious about using a color, pattern, or familiar and commonly recognizable appearance namesake.  Therefore, I abandoned the visual namesake convention – in favor of a name that did not require a mental or visual association.  Of course, the name Palmetto is associated with the state in which this snake was captured; South Carolina (aka:The Palmetto State).
 
How can you be sure this is a corn snake, Don? 
In the absence of DNA testing, it’s not possible to make a 100% positive genetic identification, but there are enough markers for me to say it is a pure corn snake.  Most reptile mutants have features that are anomalous to their nominate forms, and such anomalies can be beyond the obvious habitat ranges and color & pattern features that normally distinguish them.  Of course, not unlike the Leucistic Rat Snake that lacks any color or pattern resemblance to its species phenotype, the color and pattern of the Palmetto looks nothing like ANY snake species. Other than telling you that this snake was viewed by many corn snake keepers and breeders at one or more reptile shows prior to acquiring it, and was thoroughly and painstakingly photographed by Bill Love of Blue Chameleon Ventures, I have closely compared the Palmetto’s anatomical features to those of Corn Snakes (Pantherophis guttatus) and the only U.S. Rat Snakes found where this one was captured – (Black and Yellow Rat Snakes; Pantherophis obsoletus obsoletus and Pantherophis obsoletus quadrivittata).  In that those are the only two U.S. Rat Snake species that naturally occur in the vicinity of where the wild-caught male was captured, all Rat Snake references hereafter in the Palmetto morph discussion refer collectively to Black Rats and Yellow Rats – unless otherwise noted.
Palmetto Corn SnakeThe Palmetto’s anal plate is divided like both Corn Snake and Rat Snake species, dorsal and lateral scales that are keeled conform more to Corns than Rat Snakes (even though scale keeling is variable in captive-bred individuals of both species), the larger radius of The Palmetto’s ventral keel is like that of the Corn, vs. the sharper ventral keel of the Rat Snake, facial scales are generally shaped more like a Corn than a Rat Snake (count ranges are essentially the same for both species), and the Palmetto’s 70 subcaudal scale count barely overlaps the 63-90 count of the Black Rat Snake (not rare), but is well below the 75-102 count for Yellow Rat Snakes (P. o. quadrivittata) – thereby largely eliminating the Yellow Rat Snake as a genetic donor.  Bear in mind that other than average adult size and DNA comparisons from reliable baseline samples, the primary distinction between Corn Snakes and the SC Rat Snakes is in the realm of appearance (color and pattern schemes), so when a mutation dramatically deviates from a species’ appearance standards, cousin species like Corns and Rat Snakes are sometimes difficult to differentiate.  Since temperament can be respectively anomalous in either of these species (some corns may perpetually bite and some Rat Snakes can be reliably friendly to humans), it is not reliable to attempt distinction in this realm.  Distinguishing between two species that have similar scalation can sometimes be challenging, since they may overlap each others’ scale-count ranges (as is the case here). Likewise, exceptions in the realm of size in either species is inherent in both Corns and North American Rat Snakes (there are adult Corns larger than the average SC Rat Snake and vice-versa).  Based on these observations, in my experienced opinion (and that of several other veteran Rat and Corn Snake keepers), the Palmetto is a corn snake.  It may well be the first leucistic-type mutation to be discovered in corns; albeit historically unusual-looking for a leucistic serpent – with its predictable color flecking, never seen in North American Rat Snakes.  Until we see more examples of Palmettos, we will not know the general appearance of this morph, but so far (as of July 8, 2011) the five F2 visual Palmettos are remarkably consistent in appearance to the original patriarch (above pictured adult).  The eyes certainly are like most leucistic serpent mutants, as is the predominant white scalation.  Many Leucistic Rat Snakes have one (or a scant few) “smudges” of color on them, but far fewer than the first five captive specimens exhibit, and those color anomalies are generally much smaller than seen on this Palmetto. It is rare to see more than one or two such color smudges on Leucistic Black or Texas Rat Snakes, and as you can see on Palmettos, there are dozens (if not hundreds) of scales that have deeply defined colors AND far too many color smudges like the few that are seen on some Leucistic Rat Snakes.  Among the many hundreds of Leucistic Texas and Black Rat Snakes I’ve produced and many more that I have seen in the industry, I estimate that only one of every ten of them have color anomalies (smudges), and at least three times rarer are ones that have more than one small color smudge.
Hatchling Size:
The second clutch of eggs that hatched in 2011 yielded the following length and weight vital statistics:
 
Palmetto Hatchling #  1 = 9.2 in (23.4cm) and 5 grams
Palmetto Hatchling #  2 = 8.7 in (23.4cm) and 4 grams
Palmetto Hatchling #  3 = 8.9 in (22.1cm) and 4 grams
Palmetto Hatchling #  4 = 9.2 in (23.4cm) and 4 grams
Palmetto Hatchling #  5 = 8.8 in (22.4cm) and 4 grams
Palmetto Hatchling #  6 = 9.2 in (23.4cm) and 4 grams
Normal – Heterozygote Hatchling #  7 = 9.3 in (23.6cm) and 4 grams
Normal – Heterozygote Hatchling #  8 = 8.2 in (20.8cm) and 4 grams
Normal – Heterozygote Hatchling #  9 = 9.4 in (23.9cm) and 4 grams
Normal – Heterozygote Hatchling #10 = 9.0 in (22.9cm) and 4 grams
Normal – Heterozygote Hatchling #11 = 8.6 in (21.8cm) and 4 grams
 

As cited above, all are slightly under the average size for a hatchling corn snake and far below the averages for most SC Rat Snakes.  Regarding the likelihood that the wild-caught Palmetto being a hybrid of Corn Snake and Rat Snake, I’m not seeing any indication of it.  Most colubrid inter-species hybrids have what we call HYBRID VIGOR where progeny of such hybrid pairings display robust size and vigor.  Every single hatchling Palmetto so far not only lacks HYBRID VIGOR, but is smaller than virtually any corns I’ve EVER hatched.

 
Important Note: 
  These images are not renderings of the actual animals being offered, (except for uniquely offered snakes found in the SURPLUS section of this web site).  We do not provide pictures of individual hatchling snakes for sale, nor do we recommend that you ever choose a new pet based on an image of its neonatal form.  Corns change so dramatically from hatchling to adult, they will NEVER have the same colors or contrasts throughout maturity. While most of the snakes we produce will mature to resemble the featured adult image(s) on our web site, unlike manufactured products that are respectively clones of each other, the nature of polygenic variation results in each animal being similar but not identical to others of its morph. The snake we select for you may not mature to be identical to the pictured examples, but will be chosen based on our experience of observing which neonates will mature to properly represent their respective morph.  We take this responsibility very seriously, and therefore publish the guarantee that we will exchange your SMR snake if it does not mature to be like our advertised examples.

2012-Pied-sided HYPO Bloodred – low

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Low-White Pied-sided Bloodred
Female
d.o.h. 20102
15″ long on Dec. 211, 2012
$100.00 Shipped

 

This 2012 female Low-White P/S Bloodred shows little white, but is capable of producing lows, mediums, and highs in the realm of the degree of white – when bred to other SMR Line P/S Bloodreds.  She is eating frozen/thawed pinky mice every five to seven DAYs.  The picture inset shows the location of the dorsal spinal kink.

Pied-sided Bloodred (aka: p/s bloodreds)

Low White Expression
Note:  Expect DIFFUSED and BLOODRED to be incorrectly but synonymously used in the hobby
Most Commonly used Name: Hypo Pied-sided Bloodred
Mode of Genetic Inheritance: Selective Variation + Recessive
Morph Type: Single recessive mutation & selective variation
Eye Color:  Black pupil & body ground colored iris.  Sometimes they exhibit dark red pupils, as does this one.

Go to History for more details about the DIFFUSED / BLOODRED base mutation of this compound morph.

At this time, this author suspects that P/S Bloodreds owe their atypical white lateral and facial markings to polygenetic traits versus simple recessive mutation. It is sometimes difficult to determine the inheritance of a trait or mutation when expression of the atypical feature is highly variable.  In other words, are the Bloodred siblings of P/S Bloodreds not P/S Bloodreds OR are they P/S Bloodred mutants that are at the lowest end of the 0-to-10 scale for white expression?  When proving the mode of inheritance via evaluation of Mendelian Phenotype Proportions in a single brood of snakes, visual expression is crucial.  Hence, if the expression of white in this morph can be so extremely variable, when citing the ratio of visual mutants compared to visual non mutants, the very description of inheritance can be in doubt.  I therefore honestly don’t know if P/S Bloodreds owe their distinctive pied-sided white appearance to a recessive mutation OR polygenic trait modifications.

Aside from the random lateral white feature that is obvious in most members of this morph – compared to standard Bloodreds – is the extreme diffusion – even if they don’t demonstrate any of the randomly distributed white patches on the sides.  On most – even in the absence of lateral white patches – there is an obvious line of demarcation between the dorsal and lateral pattern fields – just above the half-way point on the sides (dorso–laterally).  This stark break line between dorsal and lateral markings also begs questions about the lateral white being a mutation OR variable expression of polygenetics.

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Low-White Pied-sided Bloodred
Male
d.o.h. 2010
44″ long on October 31, 2012
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This 2010 male Low-White P/S Bloodred shows little white, but is capable of producing lows, mediums, and highs in the realm of the degree of white – when bred to other SMR Line P/S Bloodreds.  He is possibly het for the McDonald Line of P/S Bloodreds.  he’s 44″ long and eating frozen/thawed adult mice.

 

Details:
Pied-sided Bloodred (aka: p/s bloodreds)
Low White Expression
Note:  Expect DIFFUSED and BLOODRED to be incorrectly but synonymously used in the hobby
Most Commonly used Name: Pied-sided Bloodred
Mode of Genetic Inheritance: Selective Variation + Recessive
Morph Type: Single recessive mutation & selective variation
Eye Color:  Black pupil & body ground colored iris

Go to History for more details about the DIFFUSED / BLOODRED base mutation of this compound morph.

At this time, this author suspects that P/S Bloodreds owe their atypical white lateral and facial markings to polygenetic traits versus simple recessive mutation. It is sometimes difficult to determine the inheritance of a trait or mutation when expression of the atypical feature is highly variable.  In other words, are the Bloodred siblings of P/S Bloodreds not P/S Bloodreds OR are they P/S Bloodred mutants that are at the lowest end of the 0-to-10 scale for white expression?  When proving the mode of inheritance via evaluation of Mendelian Phenotype Proportions in a single brood of snakes, visual expression is crucial.  Hence, if the expression of white in this morph can be so extremely variable, when citing the ratio of visual mutants compared to visual non mutants, the very description of inheritance can be in doubt.  I therefore honestly don’t know if P/S Bloodreds owe their distinctive pied-sided white appearance to a recessive mutation OR polygenic trait modifications.

Aside from the random lateral white feature that is obvious in most members of this morph – compared to standard Bloodreds – is the extreme diffusion – even if they don’t demonstrate any of the randomly distributed white patches on the sides.  On most – even in the absence of lateral white patches – there is an obvious line of demarcation between the dorsal and lateral pattern fields – just above the half-way point on the sides (dorso–laterally).  This stark break line between dorsal and lateral markings also begs questions about the lateral white being a mutation OR variable expression of polygenetics.

Snow Motley-2012

Snow Motley (no aka)
Most Commonly Used Name: Snow Motley
Mode of Genetic Inheritance: Recessive
Type: Triple mutation compound (Motley + Amel + Anery)
Eye Color:  RED pupil

 

 

Combining the three recessive gene mutations; Motley and (Anery & Amel = Snow) combine to render this beautiful Snow compound mutation. Typically, they have many subtle colors found throughout the spectrum of the Snow compound mutation.

 

 

 

 

What to expect:
Both male and female hatchlings look alike (essentially white snakes with some tainted shade of what Motley markings), but many of our males lose a noticeable amount of their stripes through maturity.  Some females will lose SOME of their stripe with maturity, but some do not lose any.

 

 

 

Important Note:
  These images are not renderings of the actual animals being offered, (except for uniquely offered snakes found in the SURPLUS section of this web site).  We do not provide pictures of individual hatchling snakes for sale, nor do we recommend that you ever choose a new pet based on an image of its neonatal form.  Corns change so dramatically from hatchling to adult, they will NEVER have the same colors or contrasts throughout maturity. While most of the snakes we produce will mature to resemble the featured adult image(s) on our web site, unlike manufactured products that are respectively clones of each other, the nature of polygenic variation results in each animal being similar but not identical to others of its morph. The snake we select for you may not mature to be identical to the pictured examples, but will be chosen based on our experience of observing which neonates will mature to properly represent their respective morph.  We take this responsibility very seriously, and therefore publish the guarantee that we will exchange your SMR snake if it does not mature to be like our advertised examples.

 

 

Scaleless Anery2013

Scaleless Anery(no aka)
Most Commonly Used Name: Scaleless Anery
Mode of Genetic Inheritance: Recessive
Morph Type: Simple Recessive Gene Mutations, Anery and Scaleless 
Eye Color: Black pupil
PROBABLY AN INTERSPECIES HYBRID between Emory’s Rat Snake and Corn Snake (details below)
 

We acquired our Scaleless Corns in 2012 from Stephane Rosselle in France.  He has many dozens of different color and pattern variants of this unique mutation.  The originator of the Scaleless Mutants in France (Richard Dijoux) https://www.colubiasnakes.fr indicates on his web site that Scaleless corns originated from pairing an Emory’s Rat Snake with a Corn.  Hence, if the ones I got from Stephane are from that line, they are technically hybrid mutants (athough 1st- cousin species).

Just as seed-less grapes are not really devoid of seeds, scale-less corns have SOME scales.  The belly on most of them are scaled–to some degree, and random fragments of scale patterns are seen in varying degrees from one mutant 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, they render a super-protruding appearance.  The scales around the eyes of normal snakes partially shroud the periphery of the eye.  

Of course, no two biological forms are identical, but add to that the variability of infrequent scale placements and these take “no two alike” to a whole new level.  Regardless of how many and where scales are sparcely located, where the scales are not present, we see more deeply-saturated color exhibition.  Who knew that the outer armor of serpents actually dilluted the rendering of their here-to-fore unseen color brilliance?  Few corn snake mutations are capable of rendering 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.

 

What to expect:
Unlike most corn snakes, as hatchlings, Scaleless Anery’s are merely a smaller version of their adult form.  Usually, neonatal corns are vastly different in color, compared to their adult forms, but the Scaleless Anery displays the colors you’ll see when they are fully mature.  Many of the adults maintain a bluish cast on their heads that does not particularly match the rest of their body ground-color.  As mentioned above, no two have the same exhibition of partial-scalation, but generally, not counting the belly scales, perhaps less than 5% of their body displays random scale pattern segments.  Some scales stand alone, but most are part of linear segments.  

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Important Note:
  These images are not renderings of the actual animals being offered, (except for uniquely offered snakes found in the SURPLUS section of this web site).  We do not provide pictures of individual hatchling snakes for sale, nor do we recommend that you ever choose a new pet based on an image of its neonatal form.  Corns change so dramatically from hatchling to adult, they will NEVER have the same colors or contrasts throughout maturity. While most of the snakes we produce will mature to resemble the featured adult image(s) on our web site, unlike manufactured products that are respectively clones of each other, the nature of polygenic variation results in each animal being similar but not identical to others of its morph. The snake we select for you may not mature to be identical to the pictured examples, but will be chosen based on our experience of observing which neonates will mature to properly represent their respective morph.  We take this responsibility very seriously, and therefore publish the guarantee that we will exchange your SMR snake if it does not mature to be like our advertised examples.