I have a mate for it, remember this picture?





Striped Mud X Scrambled banded Newport by RossAZ480, on Flickr



Hubbs made up the name for the two different Mud morphs. One is a Blotched Mud morph, which is actually the Long Beach hypermelanistic (grease king) and Newport expressed at the same time in one snake. The Striped Mud is not a striped version of the Blotched Mud, its a striped/aberrant version of the Whittier morph. The Whittier morph is identical in coloring, its just banded instead of aberrant. So yeah, they are all hypermelanistic. The Striped Mud and Whittier are the same as the Delta (Davis) and nitida/conjuncta morphs. The striped Mud is the rarest though and has just recently started to be reproduced in captivity.



I have a Long Beach hypermel het for Striped Mud that might be ready to breed to the Striped Mud next year. So, I'm wondering if I can get both genes to express them selves in the same snake. Then I held back A Newport Scrambled banded het Striped Mud this year. So, I'd like to see if I can get the Newport gene and Striped Mud to express at the same time. I have no idea what that would look like, but the situation is similar to the Chocolate banana. And these are all from the same locality.
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