That's pretty much it. It's an animal that has something unusual in it's markings or coloration. To find out if it's genetic, you would basically breed it to another normal. If the babies display the same characteristics then it's genetic. If not, then it's just something peculiar to that specific snake. If there is anymore to it than that, I don't know what it is. But that one in the OP's photo looks like it could have had something swimming in the gene pool...