Crested Gecko morph

Incomplete dominant

Super Empty Back

Crested Gecko (Correlophus ciliatus)

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What Super Empty Back looks like

Homozygous Empty Back morph showing extensive back pattern clearing. Radical reduction of dorsal pattern coloring.

Reduces or eliminates dorsal/back pattern coloring while retaining pattern structure on sides. Heterozygous shows moderate pattern reduction on back; homozygous shows extensive back clearing. Antagonistic with Harlequin (overcomes concentration).

How to identify it: Empty Back animals show reduced/cleared dorsal pattern. Super Empty Back shows extensive clearing.

How Super Empty Back is inherited

Super Empty Back follows a incomplete dominant inheritance pattern, carried on the Empty Back allele (locus EB).

Combo morphs with Super Empty Back

  • Charcoal

    Homozygous Axanthic (x/x) combined with Empty Back het (EB/+). Axanthic eliminates warm pigment while Empty Back reduces dorsal pattern, producing a clean charcoal-grey gecko with minimal patterning.

Predict Super Empty Back pairingsOpen the Crested Gecko genetics calculator.Identify a Crested Gecko morphUse the morph identifier to match photos to visually identifiable traits.

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