Mode of Genetic Inheritance: Recessive
Morph Type: Double Mutant Het (Scaleless and Anery)
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SCALE-LESS Corns:
We were fortunate to receive several varied color and pattern morphs of Scaleless Corns this year from Stephane Rosselle 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, scale-less corns have SOME scales. The entire bellies of most are classically scaled, 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. 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, the lack of most scales results in a more deeply-saturated color exhibition. Who knew that the 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. The originator of the Scaleless Mutants in France (Richard Dijoux) https://www.colubiasnakes.fr indicates on his web site that they began 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 (though 1st- cousin species). |
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.
Picture of Scaleless Anerythristic Mutant. This is not what you are buying. This listed product (Het for Scaleless corns) will look like a typical wild corn snake, but is carrying one copy of the gene mutation that will render Scaleless Anery mutants if bred to another corn snake with one or both DNA copies of the Gene Mutation. Again, this picture demonstrates the potential for what you can possibly produce if you buy one of the $1,100.00 to $1,300.00 hatchlings offered here. The snake you will be ordering will look similar to a wild-caught common corn snake.
This picture is NOT what you will be ordering. You are about to order a corn that looks like a common corn snake but is hiding the DNA gene mutations for Scaleless and Anery. Corns het for Scaleless and other color and pattern mutations will also be offered elsewhere on our web site. They will be priced according to the market value of the mutations they carry.