Ball Python morph
Ball Python (Python regius)
Visual Cryptic. Subtle pattern and color modifications. Much more impactful in combination with other morphs.
Subtle recessive mutation that produces a cleaner, slightly faded appearance with subtle pattern modifications. Visual Cryptics can be difficult to distinguish from normal ball pythons without experience. The gene becomes much more visually striking when combined with other morphs.
How to identify it: Subtle overall. Slightly faded appearance, minor pattern irregularities. Most easily identified in combination with other genes where its influence becomes more apparent.
Cryptic follows a recessive inheritance pattern, carried on the Cryptic allele (locus Cryptic).
Because Cryptic is recessive, an animal needs two copies of the allele to show the trait visually. An animal with a single copy is called het cryptic (heterozygous). A het animal looks normal but carries the gene, so pairing two het cryptic animals produces, on average, one in four visual cryptic offspring.
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