Ball Python morph
Ball Python (Python regius)
Visual Monsoon. Distinctive raindrop/speckled pattern. Normal blotch pattern broken into smaller scattered elements.
Pattern mutation that produces a distinctive raindrop or speckled pattern across the body. The normal ball python blotch pattern is broken into smaller, more scattered pattern elements resembling raindrops.
How to identify it: Raindrop or speckled pattern covering the body. Normal blotch pattern broken into smaller scattered elements. Distinctive and easily identifiable when visual.
Monsoon follows a recessive inheritance pattern, carried on the Monsoon allele (locus Monsoon).
Because Monsoon is recessive, an animal needs two copies of the allele to show the trait visually. An animal with a single copy is called het monsoon (heterozygous). A het animal looks normal but carries the gene, so pairing two het monsoon animals produces, on average, one in four visual monsoon offspring.
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