The Italian Leather Morph
The Italian Leatherback morph was developed in Italy by Allesandro. The leatherback name gives you a pretty good idea of what this gene does. The back of a leatherback dragon is smooth, with a leather feel, this morph is a co-dominant gene.
To produce Italian leatherbacks you need only one parent to be leather. this will produce about 50% leatherback offspring, while the other 50% will be normal scaled. pairing 2 Italian leatherbacks together will produce silkbacks and pairing a leatherback with a recessive leather should produce microscale leatherbacks.
More on silkbacks and microscales leathers can be found via the links to the right.
Genetic Schedule (theoretical numbers)| Italian Leatherback Table | Normal | Leatherback | Silkback |
| Leatherback X Normal | 50% | 50% | 0% |
| Leatherback X Leatherback | 25% | 50% | 25% |
| Recessive Leatherback x Italian Leatherback | 25% | 50% (25% of the leatherbacks may be microscaled) | 25% |
Morphs
- The Colors
- Translucents
- Hypo
- Italian Leatherback
- Recessive Leather
- American Smoothie
- Blue Eyes
- Marketed Leucistic
- Silkback
- Other known Morphs