Gene Request Form
Please fill the below form out to the best of your ability. Answers do not need to be lengthy. If appropriate you may forward this request to someone who is more able to supply the answers.
Facts
Species: Boaedon capensis
Name of Gene: Blue-eyed
First produced by whom: Chris Jones
Year First Produced: 2015
Genetics Type (Incdom/Codom/Recessive/Polygenic/etc): recessive
In complex with other genes?: no
Other names/aliases for it?: Blue-eyed Leucistic, Blue-eyed Leucy
Description: A morph that turns the eyes blue and removes all colour
Appearance; What it does/looks like?
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Head: Lighter white mask on chin, nose, and eyes. Fully white with minimal pattern. Blue eyes
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Body: Fully white with minimal pattern.
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Belly: pure white
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Tail: Fully white with minimal pattern.
Proven Lines:
Related Genes: T- albino blue-eyed, T+ albino blue-eyed, blue-eyed green, hypo blue-eyed, hypo blue-eyed green
Proven: To what degree it is proven out to not just be polygenic? This gene is fully proven to be recessive by many house snake breeders
Unique: Why do you believe this is a new morph and not an existing one? There are no morphs for house snakes on MorphMarket yet
Problems: Any problems? No
History: The history behind its discovery? Dean Boshoff was the first one to own a wild caught specimen of the blue-eyed morph but it unfortunately passed away before any offspring were produced. Chris Jones then got a wild caught specimen and proved the morph out in 2015. This morph was originally called Blue-eyed Leucistic because of its adult pure white colouration, however babies are not hatched pure white so it was renamed to simply blue-eyed.
Disagreement or Controversy: People still debate on whether it should be called blue-eyed or blue-eyed leucistic and you see it being called both names often.
References here on the community:
- At least one link to community discussion (ie forums) to demonstrate community acceptance
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Link to WOBP if one exists.
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Links to the wider web.
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