18 Cool Hognose Snake Morphs With Pictures

With over 3,600 known species of snakes in the world, there are plenty of slithering serpents to go around.

Including the Hognose snake morphs, which are natural and designer reptiles that are replicated into similar looks with different colors or patterns schemes. They make for a great beginner pet snake and come in tens of eye-catching varieties.

Hognose snake morphs can be found across the United States, and each subspecies of Hognose snakes has its own uniqueness and animalistic qualities about them.

How Many Hognose Snake Morphs Are There?

Because of breeders taking a keen interest in this snake, there are now approximately 200 and 300 different types of Hognose snake morphs.

What accounts for the different morphs of Hognose snakes comes down to the color of the scales and skins, in addition to the shape of skin patches as well as the direction of their nose.

18 Hognose Snake Morphs

Albino Hognose Snake

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Amelanistic, T-Albino, or simply the Albino Hognose snake has a pale white undertone with a layer of dull orange dots going along its backside to the from the top of its crown to the tip of its tail.

Its color pattern and lack of melanin is due to a recessive gene that is prevalent amongst many Hognose snakes, and it is very apparent in this eye-catching reptile.

With the proper environment, it grows to the typical age of maturity of 2 years old and can be approximately 20 inches in length.

Albino Anaconda Hognose Snake

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The western Albino Anaconda Hognose snake, a mix between the Albino and Anaconda Hognose snakes, is a small snake that has a pale yellow scale-base with faint orange dots on them that are small in the beginning and tend to grow as the snake does.

And it grows quickly; it has the capacity to grow up to 20 inches in length without exceeding 2 to 3 inches in width. Since it has more sensitive skin, the Albino Anaconda morph is big on resting in your palm for heat.

Red Albino Anaconda Hognose Snake

The Red Albino Anaconda is a western Hognose snake that has a peachy-yellow skin tone with blotches along its body that start off as a light tan or orangish color and will become darker as it grows.

These blotches will start to resemble bands as they get larger and will stretch out with the growth of the Anaconda.

The Red Albino Anaconda will most likely reach between 15 and 20 inches when they are fully mature, and its snout is slightly ascended into the air, which is an evident trait of most-to-all western Hognose snakes.

Extreme Albino Red Anaconda Hognose Snake

Now the Extreme Albino Red Anaconda Hognose snake morph is also a western Hognose snake that heavily resembles its cousin, the Red Albino Anaconda.

But if you can tell by the name, this Hognose has more vibrant colors than its counterpart, which is why it has been deemed “extreme”.

This fiery Hognose still has its yellow-tan skin base, but its body patches are much more distinguishable due to the fact that they are bigger and more rounded in size – resembling an almost complete band – and their orangish-red patches are more of a bold red color.

Toffeeconda Hognose Snake

If you like nature, then the Toffeeconda Hognose snake may pique your interest. It is from the Western part of the United States and has a light brown skin base that resembles toffee, hence the nickname.

Its nose is slightly pinched upward, its patches are more uniform in a rounded rectangular form and they have more of a dark brown hue.

The Toffeeconda Hognose is smaller compared to its snake buddies, reaching a top length of 12 to 15 inches and about 2 inches wide, and they are avid tree climbers as well.

Toffeeglow Hognose Snake

The Toffeeglow Hognose snake is the offspring designer brand of the Toffeebelly Hognose and the T-Albino; the two Hognoses create a visual double recessive gene within the Toffeeglow Hognose snake.

The result of this genetic mutation is the reason for their more vibrant variation of color; their skin is pale yellow and stretchesacross its entire body and is spotted with a popping orange color that can be very eye-catching.

They take after their parents and grow up to be an average length about 15 inches long and 2 inches wide.

Anaconda Snow Hognose Snake

One of the more intriguing Hognose morphs is the Western Anaconda Snow Hognose. It has the moniker “snow” because of its all-white hue that resembles the arctic basin.

It has enticing faded red eyes that are challenging to look away from, as well as one of its other prominent features, its scales that protrude a bit longer than other Hognose snakes, giving you the ability to feel their true size and scale texture.

As babies they can be between 8 and 10 inches and grow up to be between 15 and 20 inches long.

Super Arctic Conda Hognose Snake

With its signature black, flat and slightly erected snout, the Super Arctic Conda makes the list as a prominent western Hognose morph.

This unique morph has an off-white skin base that is covered in dots and blotches that look brown in color with a black ring bordering each blotch.

Interestingly, they have a flat, black tongue with a ribbon split in the center, along with a pair of solid black eyes that will be a challenge to look away from.

Oh, and the Super Arctic Conda is one of the more premium morphs and could cost you close to 1,000 dollars!

Axanthic Hognose Snake

What’s interesting about the Axanthic Hognose snake is that its genetics removes the ability to have red or yellow pigment, leaving this Hognose snake with some alluring dark tones.

Its colors include black eyes and dark tones patches, brown blotches surrounded with black rings, and a body base color of grey and white. It also has a black tongue that it uses for sensing other’s body heat.

The Axanthic Hognose snake is somewhat bigger than other Hognoses, ranging between 18 to 24 inches in length and between 2 and 3 inches in width when they reach sexual maturity.

Coral Hognose Snake

The western Coral Hognose Snake is an attractive snake with a more sensitive color pattern and behavior. They are a fan of the heat as it keeps their body more insulated, similarly to Snow Hognose snakes; the main difference between these two is their color pattern.

Coral Hognose snakes have an off-white silver color for their skin, paired with a pale orange color for their skin patterns that stands out significantly against the snake’s base.

They don’t grow to be excessively big, but that makes no different in price, because Coral Hognose snakes are worth a few thousand dollars!

Eastern Hognose Snake

With resemblance to the Axanthic Hognose, the Eastern Hognose snake also has a leafy brown color within its scales, along with some interesting black block-shaped splotches going along the back and sides of the snake.

It has black and brown eyes and has a flat, yet extended shape to its nose that is common among other eastern Hognose snake morphs.

Eastern Hognose snakes grow between 12 and 20 inches when they reach maturity, and enjoy a hearty diet of small rodents, whether they be live or frozen.

Evans Hypo Hognose Snake

Also known as the “Dutch Hypo”, the Evans Hypo Hognose snake is considered hypo-melanistic because of their lighter skin color that is only a few shades darker than the color white; their scales are also a more pale shade of range due to this genetic feature of theirs.

The pattern on an Evans Hypo Hognose snake seems separated from each other with random dots along its sides and a pale-tone underbelly.

You’ll also notice its up-slanted nose, considering that the Evans Hypo Hognose snake is of the western breed.

Frosted Hypo Hognose Snake

The Frosted Hypo Hognose snake makes the list with its clashing color pattern that resembles the mix of a Caramel Albino Hognose and Dutch Hypo Hognose and can be found within the western states of the United States.

It has a creamy white base of skin and in its scales, that clashes well with its brown blocks that are patterned all over their body; and some of these blocks are rimmed with a black border.

It’s a popular morph of snake because of the visual double recessive combo of colors, and it enjoys the heat on a more frequent basis.

Jaguar Hognose Snake

Why is it called the “Jaguar” Hognose snake? Because it possesses a dominant gene factor that creates a pattern of oblong circles and ovals that are like those spots and pattern of a jaguar.

This aberrant and noticeable marking is featured with a light tan color skin and scales with integrated light brown to dark brown ovals or round-cornered rectangles.

Their eyes are black and strong, and they even have a unique trait about them; their head is typically the same brown as their spots that stretches into a pattern of 2 to 3 streaks.

Lavender Hognose Snake

No, the Lavender Hognose snake does not smell like lavender; this western Hognose breed simply has an exceptionally light purplish tint to its skin that looks like the color of lavender.

This happens because the Lavender Hognose snake has a recessive gene that limits the amount of melanin its skin receives; nonetheless, it still has an interesting look.

It has its signature western up-tilted snout and can reach a full length of 18 inches when they are completely grown.

Pink Pastel Anaconda Hognose Snake

Reaching between 18 and 20 inches in length and approximately 2 inches wide, the designer Pink Pastel Anaconda Hognose snake can be considered one of the more interesting Hognose snake morphs because of its recessive gene trait that creates an intriguing aesthetic on an animal.

Its skin is a smooth velvet light to dark pink with little lines that are slightly darker, like a pinkish orange.

Fun fact: because of its skin tone, the Pink Pastel Hognose snake is often called the “Pink Panther” and is one of the rarer Hognose snake morphs.

Caramel Anaconda Hognose Snake

A smooth look is the signature feature to the Caramel Anaconda Hognose morph.

This snake is a designer breed between the western Anaconda Hognose morph and the Caramel Albino morph, which results in a snake that has a creamy light brown color throughout its entire body, without any patterns or spots.

Even its head pattern is reduced because of its recessive gene that causes this phenomenon. It’s on the bigger side as well, growing if 20 inches of pure muscle and scales.

Toxic Hognose Snake

Check out the western Toxic Hognose Snake. It is the designer Hognose morph of the Toffeebelly Axanthic Hognose snake.

It was first created in 2013 and has recessive physical traits from both its parents, such as its color. It has a silvery-white undercoat with grayish-brown blotches that cover its body.

When fully developed it has a thick mid-section can reach a length of 18 to 20 inches long. A V-shaped tongue, flat brown and white eyes, and a flat uplifted nose are also prominent features of the Toxic Hognose Snake.

And like many other recessive gene Hognoses, the Toxic Hognose enjoys resting in heat.

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