Species
Ball Python
Name of Gene
Typhoon
Year first produced
2008
Inheritence type
Dominant
In complex with other genes?
No
General description
Enhances orange pigmentation, creates background flaming, twists dorsal patterns, and introducing “bubbles” in dorsal pattern.
Appearance - Head
Very similar head stamp and eye stripes to the “normal” ball python.
Appearance - Body
Enhanced orange pigmentation with background flaming. Often the dorsal pattern or stripe will have “bubbles” in it.
Appearance - Belly
Nothing unique about the belly.
Appearance - Tail
Follows the body patterning.
Proven lines
Only the one known line, found and proven out by Tim Bailey.
Related genes
None.
Proven
It’s been passed down from single gene typhoons and typhoon combos. There have been several breeders that have produced typhoons from the original line proven by Tim Bailey.
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(Typhoon Ball Pythons Sold on MorphMarket)
Unique
It’s different than orange dream in the patterning, flaming, and dorsal patterns. There isn’t another mutation that is similar enough to suspect they’re just different lines.
Problems
No.
History
Tim Bailey imported the original male and proved it out. He has not yet proven if it is incomplete dominant or dominant, having produced only one animal he suspected to be a super but its first clutch produced non-typhoons thus proving the suspected super was not homozygous.
