Population and markings Elegant Gecko
How the pale dorsal markings are shaped and how yellow or blue the green is. Follows the population rather than a gene, and males and females differ in mouth colour.
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.
Population and markings 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. New Zealand's native geckos are absolutely protected — they cannot be taken from the wild, kept without a permit or exported — and every animal held overseas descends from smuggling. They also bear one or two live young a year after a pregnancy lasting most of a year, so wild collection is something the population cannot absorb.
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.