Reptile MorphsBall Python Pattern Morphs

Ball Python Pattern Morphs
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Striped, Banded, Aberrant, Reduced Pattern, Patternless the possibilities are endless, Not all of these morphs have been proven to be genetic a  next to the mutation means it is a proven genetic morph, some traits effect both the pattern & the colour and because of this we have decided to duplicate them on both the pattern and the colour sections morphs effected by this have   next to there names for easy identification.
Please use the drop down menu's to navigate through the different Colour / Pattern and Albino morphs.
Thanks to Kevin McCurley of NERD, RALPH DAVIS REPTILES & Vin Russo of CUTTING EDGE HERPETOLOGICAL INC for their permissions to use there photo's, and there continuing work with the various morphs, without their commitment we would not have the morphs available that we have today.
If you know of a new Ball Python Morph please drop us a line so as we can add it to our list.

    Piebald [ TOP OF PAGE ]
Piebald Ball pythons have been known since 1966 when a villager from Accra, Ghana found and killed a specimen. They later showed up in the early 1980's when Tyron Dillon of the Californian Zoological Supply, imported two piebald animals also from Ghana and sold them to private collectors. In the Mid 1980's a dealer in Miami, Florida imported a baby piebald Ball, this was sold to a private collector and later sold on to Peter Kahl, who worked with the animal to prove it's unique patterning & colour was genetic in 1997. No two Piebald Balls are the same they have varying degrees of pure white & brown patches.
[For Pictures & more Information of the Piebald Ball Python see the Ralph Davis web site]

  Spider [ TOP OF PAGE ]
A very odd new morph, this snake is an extreme animal that looks like no other ball python. Minimal pattern, pale green eyes, odd faded coloration, white(pied) & yellow/orange side scales. First bred by NERD, who has proved it's genetics to be either co dominant or dominant.
[For Pictures & more Information of the Spider Ball Python see the NERD web site]

    Bumblebee Spider [ TOP OF PAGE ]
A Pastel Jungle crossed to a Spider Ball. Pied white sided with yellow and orange flecks,there is also some white coming through on their backs, as the snake matures the yellow develops even further. First bred by NERD, proving it to be a Co Dominant gene, possibly a double Co Dominant gene - when bred to a normal you may expect to see pastels, spiders, normal's and bumble bees.
[For Pictures & more Information of the Spider Ball Python see the NERD web site]

Labyrinth Jungle [ TOP OF PAGE ]
Unproven genetically. The Labyrinth Jungle Ball Python are unique in there zigzagging and crazy maze like patterning, the coloration is normal but the patterning is something else.
[For Pictures & more Information of the Labyrinth Jungle Ball Python see the Ralph Davis web site]

Congo Jungle
Congo Jungles are very yellow and black, the yellow stays with them throughout adulthood. Proven to be a dominant gene by Vin Russo of Cutting Edge Herps, in 1999 he bred a " jungle " looking Ball to an Het Albino male and hatched out all " jungle " looking babies, the following year he did the same and produced another entire clutch of " jungle " looking babies. In 2001 he bred one of the 1999 male hatchlings back to his mother and produced a clutch of very yellow and black babies he has named The Congo Jungle
[For Pictures & more Information of the Burgandy Ball Python see the Cutting Edge Herpetological Inc web site]

  Genetic Stripe [ TOP OF PAGE ]
A Ball Python with a pale dorsal stripe and void of all side markings. In 1985 Bob Clark imported a Striped male Ball Python, this male did not breed until the Autumn of 1995, the heterozygous babies were grown up and bred in the winter of 1998, in the spring of 1999 he produced his first genetically Striped Ball Pythons, ironically it was VIP Inc - Dave & Tracy Barker who bred the first Striped Ball Pythons from heterozygous animals they had purchased from Bob Clark previously.
[For Pictures & more Information of the Genetic Striped Ball Python see the NERD web site]

Genetic Gold Stripe [ TOP OF PAGE ]
Descendants from the original Bob Clark line of genetic striped Ball Pythons these are " 5 striped" ball pythons there is the golden dorsal stripe the two darker stripes on each side bordering the main dorsal and the golden brown sides.
[For Pictures & more Information of the Banded Ball Python see the Ralph Davis web site]

    Black Stripe/Back [ TOP OF PAGE ]
There appears to be two different black stripe/back ball pythons, those with a solid black stripe and another with a burgundy stripe. Although NERD have proven it to be a genetic trait using two snakes exhibiting this trait, it is some what problematic as other snakes showing this mutation have not bred true.
[For Pictures & more Information of the Banded Ball Python see the Ralph Davis web site]

Banded [ TOP OF PAGE ]
Whether this is a genetic trait is really unknown, as not enough work has been done with this morph to determine for sure. Banded Balls bred to Banded Balls have produced Banded hatchling, but so has breeding them to normal's, so perhaps it may be a co dominate trait, only further breeding experiments can determine this for sure. The Banded Ball have less black on them than normal's in some specimens they are 50/50 black and brown. The reduction in the black markings make this morph quiet stunning.
[For Pictures & more Information of the Banded Ball Python see the Ralph Davis web site]

    Clown [ TOP OF PAGE ]
Dorsally striped with a complicated combination of pattern and colour. Clowns have an unusual and beautiful head pattern. First bred by VIP Inc - Dave & Tracy Barker, who proved this unique colour & pattern morph to be a simple recessive trait .
[For Pictures & more Information of the Clown Ball Python see the NERD web site]

Tiger [ TOP OF PAGE ]
A banded pattern the bands that seems to be very hazy and faded out, as yet not proved to be genetic.
[For Pictures & more Information of the Banded Ball Python see the Ralph Davis web site]

    Woma Tiger [ TOP OF PAGE ]
A pattern and colour mutation that is recognizable by the thin brown/gold banding on a gold/platinum yellow body with pale eyes and tongue. Some animals may have orange hues on their head and sides. There is an absence of brown saddling altogether and little to NO black on this hypomelanistic animal. First proved to be a co dominant pattern & colour trait by NERD
[For Pictures & more Information of the Woma Tiger Ball Python see the NERD web site]

Granite [ TOP OF PAGE ]
Granite Balls are patterned fairly normally but where the " alien heads " are on a normal ball there is a speckling of black pigment. Another characteristic of the Granite is a plain rusty coloured head. NERD says that " In our small group it seems that the scales have a different feel to them much like that of an angolan python". Unproven yet.
[For more information and Pictures on the Artic Ball Python see the Ralph Davis Web site]

    Black head [ TOP OF PAGE ]
Black head, thick black bands, a pure white belly and gold pin-stripe down the back. First produced in 2002 by Ralph Davis and proved to be co dominant / dominant. The Blackhead male ball was bred to a dark female and all four eggs produced blackheaded hatchlings.
[For more information and Pictures on the Artic Ball Python see the Ralph Davis Web site]

    Green head [ TOP OF PAGE ]
The Green head has an olive green head with a yellow/green belly colouring, black melted sides and is dorsally striped which may be broken. Their body has the texture of an Angolan python. As yet unproven to be genetic.
[For Pictures & more Information of the Green head Ball Python see the NERD web site]

    Goblin [ TOP OF PAGE ]
" Goblin " a name used by Ralph Davis, snakes showing these characteristics are also being marketed as the Green Head or Cinnamon. As yet unproven to be genetic.
[For more information and Pictures on the Artic Ball Python see the Ralph Davis Web site]