Corn snake morph?

[snekans]

I recently acquired this little rescue corn and I'm completely mystified by what morph he is, would anyone mind having a guess to satisfy my curiosity? My others are all boring easy morphs






He appears to have some level of white-sidedness (flecked with orange). The camera has made him a bit brighter than he is in person, he's more of a dull earthy colour as in the last (terrible) pictaken in daylight. He also has no belly checkers which he did NOT enjoy posing for.


Thoughts? Please and thank you!

[Malc]

Might be more of a hybrid ( corn cross rat snake) rather than a morph

[SpiritSerpents]

A very old diffused.

[snekans]

Originally Posted by Malc

Might be more of a hybrid ( corn cross rat snake) rather than a morph

Is there any way I can tell if he's a hybrid or not? Would scale counts help?



No idea how old he is. He was found roaming wild, suspected dumped and never claimed. He's still a bit on the skinny side but eating like a champ Currently he weighs a grand total of 250g at approx 3ft long.

[SnakeBreeder]

It is an old "Keys" locality corn snake.
These are sometimes called Rosy Corns.

[Malc]

Originally Posted by snekans

Is there any way I can tell if he's a hybrid or not? Would scale counts help?

Not really, only a DNA sequence would really tell what's there. But as others have already mentioned, it's more likely to be a locality of corn that is not often seen these day.

Originally Posted by SnakeBreeder

It is an old "Keys" locality corn snake.
These are sometimes called Rosy Corns.

[ian14]

Wild type motley?

[wilkinss77]

Originally Posted by SnakeBreeder

It is an old "Keys" locality corn snake.
These are sometimes called Rosy Corns.

Could well be.

Originally Posted by Malc

Not really, only a DNA sequence would really tell what's there. But as others have already mentioned, it's more likely to be a locality of corn that is not often seen these day.

I have seen a few corns that look just like that, usually offered as 'normals', but to me they're too drab to be proper normals- they're usually normal Carolina x black or grey rat, or Keys locale as per SnakeBreeder's suggestion.