Aberrant Eastern Diamondbacks

Variation in pattern examples that occur in the Eastern Diamondback. Striping - this gene has shown up in only two snakes that I know of. Both were wild collected animals. This snake is owned by Paul Moody.

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Below are two snakes owned by Walter Kidd. The male is a partial stripe and the female below is completely striped. Photos supplied by Walter Kidd.

Pattern reducing - This trait has started showing up more regular with the bloodline I am currently working with. The possibility of producing a completly patternless animal is very certain in the near future. Photos by Paul Moody

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A close up of the head. This animal is a partial patternless.

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A CB 2006 amelanistic partial patternless juvenile Eastern. Photo by Paul Moody

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This snake was coined a Granite phase. It was a wild collected female from Florida about 3 1/2 feet in length.

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The following two pictures are of a Platinum female. This morph is possibly anerythristic. The strain originates from the Florida Keys. Snake is owned by Dave Weathers. Photo Sharing and Video Hosting at Photobucket Photo Sharing and Video Hosting at Photobucket

This juvenile Eastern was found by Jared Watts this past spring. It will be interesting to see what she looks like when mature.
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A close up of a male striped Eastern Diamondback. What a unique snake. Photo by Paul Moody
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The photograph below was sent to me by Bart Borchert, the photographer is unknown. It appears to be a hypomelanistic Eastern Diamondback. The photo is believed to be from the 1970’s. Very unusual animal indeed.
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The next two photos are also from Bart Borchert, representing some granite morph Eastern’s he photographed. Notice the similarity to the granite female from above and the degree of aberrant pattern. These animals are captive born as opposed to the wild collected from above.
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CB Aberrant Eastern’s born here at our facility 7/16/09. Note the white button and white patches behind the jowls on this granite/partial patternless individual. Two males were born in this litter that looked the same. I look forward to working with this morph in the near future.
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