Scaleless garter

[ConcinusMan]

Novelty, for one thing.

[ConcinusMan]

Novelty, for one thing.

But then again, snakes are a novelty anyway. It's just that when they become so common, and more people keep them, the novelty wears off and you have to take it to the next level by having mutations. This is nothing new. It goes on with birds and many other animals too.