So scaleless, a true Co-Dom morph?

[Pythonfriend]

Ok so I accept the premise that scaleless is codom, but indulge my curiosity: what would an incomplete dominant look like in this case? A snake completely covered in half-scales? Very weak/miniscule scales?

incomplete dominant is a scientific term, and codominant is an inaccurate term we commonly use when we mean "incomplete dominant", but somehow everyone just says codom.

so they are truly the same.

and incomplete dominant can range from close to recessive to close to dominant.

two hypothetical examples:

you have a gene where the super form is fully scaleless. the heterozygous form only has one single scale missing, on the head between the eyes.

or you have a gene where the super form is fully scaleless. the heterozygous form is 90% scaleless and only has some belly scales and head scales, the rest is completely scaleless.

BOTH examples would be perfectly fine examples of incomplete dominant (or, as we like to say, codominant).


recessive = normal form and heterozygous form look identical; only the homozygous form looks different.
dominant = heterozygous form and homozygous form look completely identical, or no homozygous form exists.
incomplete dominant / codom = everything else. anything that is somewhere in between goes here.

so it could theoretically look like anything, from 99% scaled to 99% scaleless. as long as the heterozygous form looks different from both the fully scaleless and the normal BP, its incomplete dominant. in this particular case, its the scaleless head.