Leatherback
Type: Incomplete Dominant
Aliases: Het Silkback
Issues: Homozygous form has fragile skin
First Produced In: Unknown
Availability: Rarest
Last Updated: 2023-09-21
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About
Leatherback is an incomplete dominant mutation.
History
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Appearance
Body
Leatherbacks have a very soft, small scales along their backs that gives them a overall smoother feel while being handled. This can also be seen along their rear legs also.
American Leatherbacks tend to be less smooth than their Italian counterparts, with a fine amount of rough scales.
Controversy
Super Leatherbacks (Silkback) are not supported for sale on MorphMarket at this time.
Proven Lines
American Smoothie, Italian Leatherback, Phantom Leatherback.
American leather:
- First Produced By: Unknown
- First Produced In: Unknown
A form of incomplete dominant leather that popped out in the US. It’s less consistent in scale reduction than italian leather, but is also compatible with italian leather, when bred together they produce the homozygous form: Silkback.
Italian leather:
- First Produced By: Unknown
- First Produced In: Unknown
A form of incomplete dominant leather that popped out in italy. It has pretty consistent scale reduction and is quite a bit smoother uniformly and consistently than american leather.
Incomplete dominant leather animals are actually visual hets. They are the heterozygous form of silkback. Silkback is the homozygous/super form of leatherback. Silks lack scales completely, with most retaining pseudoscales that tend to develop as the animal grows.
Related Traits
Phantom leather:
- First Produced By: Phantom Dragons Inc (8981)
- First Produced In: 2004
A truly recessive form of leatherback, first produced in 2004 by Phantom Dragons Inc. The animals are smooth dorsolaterally, with almost normal scalation over the rest of the body. When bred together, these animals do not produce silkback dragons, the entire clutch is visual phantom leather. It works like any other recessive genetic heritability wise.
When you have an animal that expresses incomplete dominant leather and phantom leather, this is a true Microleather animal. They are extremely smooth, between that of a silkback and an incomplete dominant leather.
Combos
Hypo Leather Phantom Stripe 50% Pos Het Trans Central Bearded Dragon by Phantom Dragons, Inc.
Trans Leather Paradox Pos Het Hypo/wits/zero Central Bearded Dragon by Phantom Dragons, Inc.
Hypo Trans Leather Phantom Stripe Central Bearded Dragon by Phantom Dragons, Inc.
Hypo Trans Leather Phantom Stripe Central Bearded Dragon by Phantom Dragons, Inc.
Red Hypo Leatherback Dunner Female Pht Central Bearded Dragon by Midwest Dragons
Dunner High Blue Bar Tiger Leatherback Female 50% Het Hypo Central Bearded Dragon by William Corwin