Interesting Pattern on Hatchlings

[JungleTrunk]

These little guys hatched the other day and it seems like there is something going on with their pattern. Both of the snows have this pattern on the mid of their back. It's sort of like a crazy aztec pattern. The mom or dame had one or two connected saddles but not like this. A couple hatchlings from the same pairing last year had a couple connected saddles like mom too. Could be genetic?

 

[cobained]

kind of hard to see in the pics, but doesn't look particularly unusual to me. aberrant, yes; new, probably not. I would suspect it would have similar heritability to aztec or zigzag patterns. From what I can tell, those patterns are somewhat heritable (lots of aberrancy in lavenders, etc), but not simple medelian traits like most of the morphs we deal with.

 

[JungleTrunk]

kind of hard to see in the pics, but doesn't look particularly unusual to me. aberrant, yes; new, probably not. I would suspect it would have similar heritability to aztec or zigzag patterns. From what I can tell, those patterns are somewhat heritable (lots of aberrancy in lavenders, etc), but not simple medelian traits like most of the morphs we deal with.

Aberrant, that's the word I couldn't think of. Maybe I'll have to keep one and breed for more aberrancy since I don't have mom anymore.

 

[Pasodama]

Aberrant patterns do occur with some frequency but it is rather sporadic.
However, the more that you breed aberrant patterned snakes, together, the more likely it is that you will produce more individuals with aberrant patterns &/or those with aberrant patterns covering more of their body length (although you will still get them in varying degrees of coverage).