Super Specter

Pistachio is a recessive mutation producing a muted olive-to-light ground color with reduced pattern contrast, so the dorsal blotches read softer and less sharply defined. The belly typically takes on a smoky purple tone, and hatchlings may start out with more contrast before it softens with age.

Superarctic is the two-copy (super) form of the Arctic gene — not a separate gene. It produces a stronger, more dramatic expression of the Arctic look: brighter, cleaner, often with very strong black-and-white contrast. It occurs when a hognose inherits Arctic from both parents.