Crested Gecko morph
Crested Gecko (Correlophus ciliatus)
Homozygous Pixel morph displaying fractured, pixelated pattern edges. Recessive pattern disruptor affecting tigering, pattern distribution, and pinning. Creates distinctly jagged pattern boundaries. Not related to Dalmatian or Snowflake. Source: Pangea Reptile (pangeareptile.com/blogs/blog/the-pangea-pixel-story), LIL MONSTERS Reptiles (lmreptiles.com/fg-pixel/).
Recessive pattern disruptor/modifier that fractures and scatters white and orange patterns into a pixelated appearance. Affects tigering, pattern distribution, and pinning across the dorsum and laterals. Creates distinctly jagged, pixelated edges on patterns rather than smooth pattern boundaries. Not related to Dalmatian spotting or Snowflake patterning. Pixel and Snowflake can coexist but Snowflake may obscure Pixel visibility through pattern blending.
How to identify it: Pixel animals show fractured, pixelated pattern edges. Tigering appears disrupted and scattered. Pattern elements have distinctly jagged rather than smooth boundaries. Distinct from Dalmatian (spots) and Snowflake (soft flecking). Expression modifies how existing color and pattern traits display.
Pixel follows a recessive inheritance pattern, carried on the Pixel allele (locus pix).
Because Pixel is recessive, an animal needs two copies of the allele to show the trait visually. An animal with a single copy is called het pixel (heterozygous). A het animal looks normal but carries the gene, so pairing two het pixel animals produces, on average, one in four visual pixel offspring.
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