Anery Motley (aka: Anerythristic Motley)
Most Commonly Used Name: Anery Motley (hobby abbreviation for Anerythristic Motley)
Mode of Genetic Inheritance: Recessive
Morph Type: Mutation Compound (Anery + Motley)
Eye color: Black pupil with gray or silver iris
This compound morph results from combining the color mutation, Anery with the pattern mutation, Motley. Except for pattern variants (Hurricane Anery Motleys), the only obvious results of the combination of these mutations is usually less carotenoid yellow than their non motley Anery counterparts, and reduced color saturation of black. As with some single mutant Anery corns, males can demonstrate earth tone coloration, seldom seen in females of this morph. Males and females generally have color di-morphism (males generally have different colors than females). Females tend to be more black and gray while males will get some brown in them as they mature. Both are essentially black and white or black and silver as neonates.
There are only three males in this group of sub-adult Anery corns produced by Nancy Wimer. These are not Motleys, but Aneries of any pattern have the same general gender di-morphism. The three males have some brown markings.
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What to expect:
As neonates, Anery Motleys usually appear to be white snakes with black markings. As they mature, the white usually turns to gray, but markings can be anything between dark shades of gray to black. Some have only a few of the classic chain-like Motley dorsal circles, while some sport a long and contiguous “chain” pattern of dorsal circles – nearly all the way to the tail. Never expect to see such dorsal circles ON the tail itself. As with all Anery mutants, hatchling Anery Motleys display no yellow around the face and neck, but as they mature, virtually all will develop facial and lateral yellow color zones that slowly manifest with maturity – from the retention of carotenoids in their diet. BTW, the Motley pattern mutation virtually always alters color and markings – if only slightly. Patterns are often less distinct, and colors are sometimes slighted softened in Motley mutants – compared to non-Motleys..
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.