Colour form Emerald Monitor
How green, teal or dark an animal is. The prasinus group contains several closely related species, and animals sold as black or blue tree monitors are usually those rather than colour forms of this one.
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.
Colour form 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. Black and blue tree monitors are generally separate species in the prasinus group rather than varieties of the green tree monitor, so pairing them is a hybrid cross rather than a colour cross — worth establishing what an animal actually is before breeding it.
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.