Corn Snake morph
Corn Snake (Pantherophis guttatus)
Homozygous Buf. Muted tan-buff to pale brown background with retained dark saddle marks. Less saturated and less red than wild-type. Sandy, muted "dusty" appearance.
Produces a buff, tan, or pale brown coloration. The mutation shifts the typical orange-red background toward muted tan/buff tones. Dark pigment is retained. The overall effect is a more muted, sandy-brown animal compared to wild-type. The name "Buf" comes from "buff," describing the tan-cream color. When combined with other loci, Buf can contribute to various earth-toned phenotypes.
How to identify it: Muted tan-buff to pale brown background, retained dark saddle marks. Less saturated and less red than wild-type. More muted and "dusty" in appearance.
Buf follows a recessive inheritance pattern, carried on the Buf allele (locus Buf).
Because Buf is recessive, an animal needs two copies of the allele to show the trait visually. An animal with a single copy is called het buf (heterozygous). A het animal looks normal but carries the gene, so pairing two het buf animals produces, on average, one in four visual buf offspring.
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