Crested Gecko morph

Incomplete dominant

Super Sable

Crested Gecko (Correlophus ciliatus)

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What Super Sable looks like

Homozygous Sable morph expressing full dark saturation. Extremely dark, nearly melanistic coloration. Result of pairing two Sable-carrying parents.

Produces darker, more saturated coloration. Heterozygous animals show intermediate expression; homozygous express full Sable phenotype. Part of allelic complex with Cappuccino at the same locus. Sable x Cappuccino crosses did NOT produce Super Cappuccino, proving these are separate alleles despite occupying the same gene locus.

How to identify it: Sable animals appear darker and richer in coloration. Het animals show subtle darkening. Homozygous Super Sable extremely dark, nearly melanistic.

How Super Sable is inherited

Super Sable follows a incomplete dominant inheritance pattern, carried on the Sable allele (locus SA).

Combo morphs with Super Sable

  • Highway Sable

    Compound heterozygote carrying Highway and Sable at the same locus (SA/CAPP/HWY allelic complex). Distinct phenotype from either Highway/+ or Sable/+ alone. Community naming is still forming -- "Highway Sable" is a working descriptor. No documented health issues. Source: Omni Geckos (omnigeckos.com/highway/).

  • Luwak

    Sable x Cappuccino compound heterozygote. NOT a single allele. Allelic complex expression from two different mutations at the same locus.

Predict Super Sable 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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