Corn Snake morph
Corn Snake (Pantherophis guttatus)
Homozygous Strawberry. Enhanced pink-red to strawberry-red background, more vivid and pinker than wild-type orange-red. Saddle marks may show reduced contrast. Named for the distinctive strawberry-red coloration.
Enhances red and pink pigment expression, producing a vivid strawberry-red to pink-red coloration. The background color is shifted toward a warmer, pinker-red than typical wild-type orange-red. Saddle marks may appear reduced in contrast. Overall, the animal has a distinctly pinker, more saturated red appearance. When combined with Amel, produces animals with very pink/red-tinged amelanistic phenotypes. The Strawberry mutation is valued for adding warmth and intensity to red tones.
How to identify it: Enhanced pink-red to strawberry-red background color. Warmer, more saturated red than wild-type. Saddle marks may show reduced contrast. Eyes dark (melanin retained).
Strawberry follows a recessive inheritance pattern, carried on the Strawberry allele (locus Str).
Because Strawberry is recessive, an animal needs two copies of the allele to show the trait visually. An animal with a single copy is called het strawberry (heterozygous). A het animal looks normal but carries the gene, so pairing two het strawberry animals produces, on average, one in four visual strawberry offspring.
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