Skink
Examples
Real Life Examples
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Basics
Skink is a dark stripe that runs from a ketucari’s face to their tail. Optionally, an accent-color stripe can be placed within the dark stripe or the area bordered by the dark stripes. In your ketucari’s genotype, skink is represented by “nSkn” (heterozygous) or “SknSkn” (homozygous) In its heterozygous form, skink has a passrate of 35%. Homozygous skink has a passrate of 60%
Color and ShapE
Skink must be a darker color of your chosen base, and may have a minor deviation in hue. It can also be a fully desaturated color of the base, as long as it is darker. Skink may be pure black.
These colors would be acceptable for this base color. They are either a darker version of the base, or a darker and desaturated version of the base. The last color on the right shows a minor deviation in hue, and is slightly more yellow than the base itself. Notice that this small change is not overbearing.
These colors would be unacceptable for skink. They are either lighter than the base coat or have too drastic a hue shift.
The accent color may be any color. Accent stripes are optional, but if included, there are special rules for their placement.
Skink should be an unbroken stripe across the ketucari’s body. It may be partial-- starting and/or leaving off partway through the body, but in that case it should not stop and be picked back up.
Skink can produce a stripe along the back of the ketucari, a stripe along the side of the ketucari, or both. Accent stripes can be either fully enclosed within the dark stripes, or between them. However, if the ketucari was viewed from above, the accent stripes should never be outside the area bordered by the lowest dark stripes. There does not have to be additional dark stripes between accent stripes, as long as no accent stripes are below the lowest dark stripe.
If, in the above image, the dark stripes were the lowest dark stripe on the ketucari, an accent stripe could be placed anywhere in the blue area.
The above example has an additional accent stripe below the dark stripe on the side of the ketucari. This would not be acceptable.
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The above example has alternating accent stripes and dark stripes. This is the most classic form of the gene.
The above example has both a stripe on the side and the back, and accent stripes in the center of each stripe. This is another acceptable display.
The above example has a stripe on the side and two accent stripes across the back. This would be acceptable as the accent stripes are fully contained within the area enclosed by the dark stripes.
Range
Skink should appear mostly on the body.
Interactions with Other Markings
Either the dark color, the accent color, or both can be affected by Vapor, Morpho, or Inferno. In the case of both, different hues (or hue groups in the case of vapor and inferno) can be used for each color. In the case of blue inferno, blue inferno can optionally display on only one stripe color and the other stripe color can display regular inferno. Either the dark color, the accent color, or both can be affected by Jovian. Colorize can either affect the dark stripe or add an additional color to the accent stripe. Dominant colorize can do both. Haze can make the dark stripes fade into an accent color instead of displaying normally. This accent color does not have to be the same as the one chosen for the accent stripes. Skink's Dark stripes may be affected by pale.
Dart (Lace + Skink)
Dart is an optional gene interaction when Lacing and Skink appear on the same geno (note that Acid and Melanistic Pastel can ALSO count for this interaction, but do not change it).
When both genes appear, they can be combined to form dark blobs of color (with an optional light halo, similar to Lacing) in the irregular forms typical of poison dart frogs. Skink’s accent color can additionally be used in parts of the marking, but at least some darker-than-base blobs should be present and accent color blobs should be distinctly separate and not overlapping.
If using Dart, please provide a sample of the frogs you used for inspiration. While the combo does not need to mimic real frogs it should be recognizeable as being inspired by dart frogs
Blobs can be rounded horizontal striping, “saddles”, or simply large spots. Some examples of real-life poison dart frogs are provided below.
Accents
Here are some small accents you can add to your designs to make them more unique!
Skink accent stripes can have a gradient between two colors. Skink can have a gradient and fade into the base coat.