Ball Python morph
Ball Python (Python regius)
White patches with normal pattern
Causes large areas of unpigmented (pure white) skin interspersed with normally patterned sections. The amount and distribution of white is highly variable, ranging from low-white (mostly patterned with small white patches) to high-white (mostly white with small patterned sections). Het Pieds sometimes show subtle markers (slightly higher white on belly, "train tracks" on belly pattern) but are not reliably visually identifiable.
How to identify it: Unpigmented pure white patches on body. Normal pattern and color where pigmented. Amount of white varies dramatically between individuals. Head is almost always patterned. White areas have no pattern or color at all (not faded, truly white).
Piebald follows a recessive inheritance pattern, carried on the Piebald allele (locus Pied).
Because Piebald is recessive, an animal needs two copies of the allele to show the trait visually. An animal with a single copy is called het piebald (heterozygous). A het animal looks normal but carries the gene, so pairing two het piebald animals produces, on average, one in four visual piebald offspring.
Panda Pied
Black Pastel + Piebald combination.
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