Sable

Type: Incomplete Dominant

First Produced By: Gecko Haven ^[1]

First Produced In: 2017

Availability: Lower

Last Updated: 2023-04-14

Pattern Color

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History

Sable is a relatively new morph, although it has been around since 2017. The trait seems to have originated from a pair that produced the founding animal used to establish the trait’s name and inheritance, this animal’s name is Rialto. Sable was established by Cindy at Gecko Haven, Moomoo Saurus was also an early adopter who began to work on various phenotype combos. Two other notable breeders working on the trait are Ryan Lee Geckos and Jet Black geckos. Together they continued to further define and describe different trait interactions with various base colors and coat colors already established in the hobby. ^[2]

Appearance

Head

This trait produces animals with white pattern that outlines the head crests. The high white pattern is likely a result of the trait subduing yellow and orange tones on the animal as it ages that also tends to produce muted headstamps. ^[3]

Body

This trait has been proven by several breeders to produce a unique phenotype resulting in animals with thick white patches of pattern, which seems to be the highlight of the trait, a secondary part of the trait is the lateral color that usually fades with age, turning into a greyish tan tone.

Another characteristic of several animals is a line down the center of the dorsum. These notable characteristics of the trait resemble those seen in other traits such as cappuccino, phantom, and gene-x. ^[4]

Young animals, appear to have little white pattern that develops quickly and extends down into the upper laterals from the dorsum, sometimes referred to as “drippy.”

They also have white spotting that expands to a high white as they age, this is different from snowflake. ^[5]

Controversy

A unique phenotype has been produced that may indicate this trait has a super form. Several have been produced out of the same pool of animals. Several more steps are left to confirm the Hzg form. Primarily the new phenotpye must be bred into non-Sable animals to see if they produce 100% Sable results. The other is to eliminate this being a combo with another trait. This step is needed in order to confirm that there isn’t an unknown trait interaction that would make this a combo. ^[6]

Proven Lines

No Known Proven Lines

Related Traits

Cappuccino (Suspected)

A Sable x Cappuccino (Reptile City Korea;RCK) has been paired and has produced a unique result explained here. Although we are still in the early days with both the Sable trait and the Cappuccino traits, we now have some answers as to why the Sables are so similar to the Cappuccinos, and why the Super Sable form, although resembles the Cappuccinos, is uniquely distinct. Genetic traits can mutate and create variants on the same locus, so when we find evidence of this, it is referred to as a complex. Sable now appears to be a part of the world’s first known allelic complex in the crested gecko hobby. Although similar in appearance to some of the Cappuccino combinations, Sable has distinct characteristics that have not been produced in Cappuccino combinations. ^[7]