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Leucistic Axolotl

peer reviewedEDN3

Pale pink or white skin with dark eyes, and usually some pigment on the head and gills. Not an albino: the eyes carry pigment.

Offspring odds

No numbers for this one.

No inheritance mode has been recorded for Leucistic, so no offspring odds are given. Guessing one would be worse than saying nothing: a breeder would plan a season on it.

What this rests on

A peer-reviewed paper identifies the variant behind this morph in the gene EDN3.

  • Identification of mutant genes and introgressed Tiger salamander DNA in the laboratory axolotl, Ambystoma mexicanum.Sci Rep 2017

Entry in Online Mendelian Inheritance in Animals

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