2010 Hypo Lavender Motley

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Hypo Lavender Motley (no aka)
Most Commonly Used Name: Hypo Lavender Motley
Mode of Genetic Inheritance: Recessive
Morph Type: Triple Mutation Compound
Eye Color:  Red pupil & body ground colored iris (see details below about some having Black pupils)


This triple recessive mutation is the product of the color gene mutation, Lavender, the Hypo A mutation (sometimes considered a color mutation for its impact on black and some ground color zones, and the pattern mutation, Motley. As with many Lavender morphs, eye pupils can be red/pink or black. 

 

What to expect:
Most hatchlings are some shade of pale lavender or gray.  Patterns vary from classic (orderly) Motley pattern to chaotic Motley pattern to having no Motley dorsal markings at all.  With most Motley types, you can depend on the belly being devoid of the typical corn snake checkered belly, but in Lavender types (and lately, a few other morphs) some belly markings are evident.  Belly markings on Lavender Motley types must be random, scarce, and discontiguous (no checkering).  Oddly, I have not yet witnessed any belly markings on Striped Lavender types (odd because Motley and Stripe are alleles on the same chromosome locus).

Important Note:
The advertising images on our web site are representations of the average adult example of each morph.  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.