04/08/2024
This is a post-hatching but pre-shedding image.
This is a half scaleless and half normal scaled corn snake. (The transition scales on the dorsal surface look like big "microscale-shaped" scales, but I think that's just because they are transition scales taking whatever shape they can.
Pretty sure it is a mosiac. Rare, but it happens.
I am positive it is not a chimera since that clutch has a near zero likelihood of producing any visual scaleless zygotes. They are, however, 100% het scaleless. That's why a mosaic makes sense instead of an "impossible chimera."
It's a near one of a kind.... I like it!
KJ