Locality colour Red-eyed Treefrog
How blue or purple the flanks are, how orange the feet, and how much barring shows. This follows the population an animal descends from rather than a gene.
How it is produced
- Where it comes from
- This is not a single gene. It is produced by choosing which animals to breed, over generations.
- What that means for breeding
- No offspring percentage can be given for it. Breeders judge it by looking at the parents.
Offspring odds
No numbers for this one.
Locality colour is produced by selective breeding over generations, not by a single gene, so no offspring percentage can be given for it. Breeders judge it by looking at the parents.
Worth knowing. A resting red-eyed tree frog closes its eyes, tucks its limbs under and goes plain green — the red eyes and blue flanks are what it shows when startled or active. An animal bought on a photograph spends most of the day looking like a green leaf, which is what the colouring is for.
What this rests on
Established by breeders through repeated crosses and recorded in community documentation, not by published genetics. That is how almost all morph inheritance is known — and it is worth saying rather than presenting it as laboratory fact.