Blue tongue skinks are beautiful, and probably the most popular of the skinks in the exotic pet trade. They are already unique enough with their bright blue tongues to warn away predators, round sausage-like bodies, and short limbs. But when mixed with morphs they can look even more unique than usual. Below we’ve included a photo of what a “normal” blue tongue skink looks like, and then after that keep reading to see some of the beautiful morphs that breeders have been able to produce!
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Top 10 List – Blue Tongue Skink Morphs
1. Melanistic
Melanism is defined as the unusual darkening of body tissues caused by excessive production of melanin, especially as a form of color variation in animals. This explains why the beautiful skink above is a beautiful black color all over instead of its normal colors.
2. Red Line
As the name of the morph implies, the red line of blue tongue skinks still have the usual stripes and blotches of a regular blue tongue skink, except they also have bright reds included in their coloring, making them absolutely stunning.
3. Lava
The blue tongue skink morph lava can happen when an albino blue tongue skink mates with a melanistic (black) blue tongue skink. The result is a lizard that is a beautiful bright orange in color, with some having various white patches, blotches, or stripes. The lava morph is a popular morph because of its gorgeous coloring, and we can see why!
4. Axanthic
Axanthism is a mutation that prevents an animal from being able to properly produce yellow, and often red pigments. If there is no blue in the animal, this leaves them with beautiful shades of grey and black. The blue tongue skink pictured above is axanthic, only having various shades of white, grey, and black scales.
5. Albino
If you want to see some more cool albino animals check out our article “10 Stunning Albino Reptiles You Need To See“
As stated by Wikipedia, “Albinism is the congenital absence of any pigmentation or coloration in an animal, plant, or person, resulting in white hair, feathers, scales and skin and pink eyes in mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, and fish and invertebrates as well. Individuals with the condition are referred to as albino.” Often times some yellow coloration is also left. The beautiful blue tongue skink above is an albino, with pale scales and the hauntingly beautiful red eyes you expect to see with albinism in animals.
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While similar to the regular albino blue tongue skink morph, the T+ Albino is slightly different. Instead of the absence of all pigment, the T+ leaves behind beautiful lavender hues instead of blacks. This creates an absolutely stunning pastel skink.
7. Caramel T+
With beautiful rich browns, golds, and tans it’s not hard to see why this morph includes caramel in its name. A mix of the caramel and T+ albino morph, this beautiful morph removes the black of the animal and replaces it with gorgeous browns.
8. Sunrise
Another absolutely stunning morph is the sunrise morph. These beauties have lighter stripes on their back and bright orangy yellows that definitely remind us of a beautiful sunrise!
9. Ivory
As babies, blue tongue skinks with the ivory morph start out white with orange and pink patterning. As they grow older these colors and patterns fade, leaving the skink a pearly white. They also have lighter-colored eyes, which only makes this morph stand out even more.
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And last but not least on our list of blue tongue skink morphs is the snow morph. This morph keeps the red eyes of an albino but removes even more color than regular albinos. All that’s left is beautiful whites and in some individuals pretty peach colors.
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