Leatherback Bearded Dragon
Co-dominant (incomplete dominant) morph
- Inheritance
- Co-dominant (incomplete dominant)
- Super form
- Silkback
- Allelic with
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- Also called
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How Leatherback is inherited
Leatherback is co-dominant: one copy produces a visual Leatherback, and two copies produce the Silkback. Breeding a Leatherback to a normal gives about 50% Leatherback babies.
New to these terms? See the genetics glossary.
Silkbacks need extra skin care and UV caution.
Health notes
⚠️ Silkbacks have almost no scales: prone to skin injury, dehydration and UV sensitivity.
Breeding outcomes
Odds per egg. Try your own pairing in the genetics calculator.
Leatherback × Normal
- 50%Leatherback
- 50%Normal
Leatherback × Leatherback
- 50%Leatherback
- 25%Normal
- 25%Silkback
Silkback × Normal
- 100%Leatherback
Research mentioning Leatherback
- Bearded dragons (Pogona vitticeps) with reduced scalation lose water faster but do not have substantially different thermal preferences.
The Journal of experimental biology · 2021
- Regulation of Exposure to Ultraviolet Light in Bearded Dragons (Pogona vitticeps) in Relation to Temperature and Scalation Phenotype
Ichthyology & Herpetology · 2022
- Correlation between the Lunar Phase and Tail-Lifting Behavior of Lizards ( Pogona vitticeps ) Exposed to an Extremely Low-Frequency Electromagnetic Field.
Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2019
- The Physiological and Behavioural Consequences of Reduced Scalation in Captive-bred Phenotypes of the Bearded Dragon (Pogona vitticeps Ahl 1926)
Brock University Digital Repository (Brock University) · 2020