Corn Snake morph
Corn Snake (Pantherophis guttatus)
Homozygous Lava. Intense, deep lava-orange to deep red-orange coloration with greatly reduced dark pigment. Saddle outlines very faint or absent, belly pattern minimal. Distinctly more saturated and vivid than Hypo or Sunkissed.
Produces intense, deep red-orange to lava-orange coloration with greatly reduced dark pigment. Similar to Hypomelanistic in reducing melanin, but the Lava mutation produces a more extreme reduction and a distinctly deeper, more saturated red-orange tone. The name reflects the vivid, molten-orange appearance of homozygous Lava animals. Dark pattern elements (saddle outlines, belly checks) are very faint or absent. Background color is a rich, intense orange-red. When combined with other color morphs, Lava produces highly saturated, vivid animals.
How to identify it: Deep, intense orange-red to lava-orange coloration. Very reduced dark pigment. Saddle outlines faint or absent, belly pattern minimal. Distinctly richer/deeper orange than Hypo or Sunkissed.
Lava follows a recessive inheritance pattern, carried on the Lava allele (locus Lava).
Because Lava is recessive, an animal needs two copies of the allele to show the trait visually. An animal with a single copy is called het lava (heterozygous). A het animal looks normal but carries the gene, so pairing two het lava animals produces, on average, one in four visual lava offspring.
Lava Ghost
Lava + Anerythristic Type A combination. Highly reduced pigmentation producing a nearly white to faint lavender-gray animal.
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