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Ivory Ball Python

Mutation: Primary²
Color & Pattern

 

Genetics
Co-dominant (homozygous form)

 

First Produced
Snake Keeper (2003)

AKA
Super Yellowbelly

 

Related Projects
Yellowbelly

  

What's not to like about a white snake with midnight blue eyes & a faint yellow dorsal stripe?  Ivory ball pythons are beautiful animals, and a lovely variation on the "white ball python" theme.  The Ivory is the "super" (homozygous
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Possessing identical alleles for the trait in question. Homozygous mutations are visibly different than normal (wild type) ball pythons, and in the case of co-dominant genes, they possess a different appearance than the heterozygous form as well.
) form of the Yellowbelly ball python trait; when bred to a normal/wild type ball python, an Ivory will produce all Yellowbelly offspring.  Ivories often exhibit lavender-grey postocular
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the scales just behind the eye.
stripes, as well as smudgy gray pigmentation on top of the head.  The eyes of an Ivory are very dark blue in coloration, with distinct red pupils. 
 




     


 
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