Leopard Geckos can be easily called the most popular reptile to have as a pet. They are easy to look after, they are docile, and, without a doubt, they are cute. With breeders using selective breeding to come up with extraordinary morphs and colors, the reptile is only growing in popularity.
Prices will vary depending on what morph and color you are looking for but fear not, there are over 60 different types.
This article will be looking at the top 60 when it comes to cool leopard gecko morphs. They are in no particular order, just a collection of coolness and cuteness.
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1. APTOR Leopard Geckos
Created while trying to make RAPTOR Geckos, the Albino Patternless Tremper Orange (APTOR) looks very similar to a RAPTOR. Except they do not have bright red eyes.
2. Atomic Leopard Gecko
Atomic leopard geckos are tangerine geckos from the A&M bloodline. They are range from pale orange to bright orange, and often have white color skin as the back color.
3. Baldy Leopard Gecko
A Baldy leopard gecko is a Super Hypo without spots on its head. Their value and price is defined by how much red tone they have.
4. Banana Blizzard Leopard Gecko
Often, a bright yellow Blizzard morph is sold as a Banana Blizzard, but their real name is a Yellow-colored Patternless Gecko.
5. Bandit Leopard Gecko
The Bandit geckos are bred to have a distinctive band or stripe around their nose, between the eyes and the nasal openings.
6. Bell Albino Leopard Gecko
This gecko was first discovered by Mark Bell and is also called the Florida Albino. It is distinguished from other albino leopard geckos by the color of its eyes. The Bell geckos have light pink eyes, and its skin color has lavender tones with brown markings.
7. Bell Sunglow Leopard Gecko
Created by breeding a Bell Albino with a Super Hypo, the results show an albino with little to no pattern and a spotted tail.
8. Black Hole Leopard Gecko
The Black Hole leopard gecko is a cross between an Enigma, Eclipse and a Mack Snow. They have black stripes on a white background coloring.
9. Black Pearl Leopard Gecko
Black Pearl leopard geckos are almost completely black. Their underside and sides are white. They are also the closest morph to Melanistic leopard geckos.
10. Blazing Blizzard Leopard Gecko
The Blazing Blizzard is a morph consequent of breeding Blizzard morphs with Albino morphs. So far, there are Tremper and Rainwater Blazing Blizzard morphs.
11. Blazing Banana Blizzard Leopard Gecko
Breeders are still perfecting this morph. However, it will combine Albino, Patternless and Blizzard traits. The eyes should resemble those of the Albino they are bred from, and the bodies traits of Patternless.
12. Bold Stripped Leopard Gecko
Bold stripped leopard geckos have thick stripes and patterns that run down the side of their body, leaving the middle patternless. It is one of the most desired morphs for both breeders and people who want them as pets.
13. Carrot Tail Leopard Gecko
Carrot Tail refers to any leopard gecko with a bright orange tail. The tail can be partially or completely orange, either one is still considered Carrot Tail.
14. Carrot Head Leopard Gecko
Like the Carrot Tail mentioned above, a Carrot Head leopard gecko can be given to any leopard gecko with an orange head. The brighter the tones and hues, the more expensive the gecko.
15. Creamsicle Leopard Gecko
Creamsicle leopard geckos are light and pale orange colors, with yellow markings along their body. They are also called Super Hypo Tangerine Carrot Tail Mack Snow.
16. Diablo Blanco Leopard Gecko
Diablo Blanco means White Devil in Spanish, and this variety of leopard gecko is aptly named. It is a completely patternless white bodies gecko with red eyes. Sometimes the have snake eyes too (half red, half yellow).
17. Dreamsicle Leopard Gecko
The Dreamsicle Leopard Gecko has a white colored background on its body with markings that range from light yellow to orange. It can also have red eyes. They are a mixture of RAPTOR, Enigma and Mack Snow morphs.
18. Eclipse Leopard Gecko
The name Eclipse is given to leopard geckos because of their eyes. These are leopard geckos with solid coloured eyes. However, the trait is regressive, and two Eclipse can breed a snake-eyed leopard gecko. It can be found in Mack Snows, Tremper Albinos and Blizzards.
19. Enigma Leopard Gecko
Enigmas are usually blotchy, rather than having a distinct pattern and will have a white tail too. The patterns are speckled, and they become spottier with age.
20. Emerald Leopard Gecko
Also known as Emerine, the Emerald geckos are known for having green patterns on their bodies. These patterns can come in all shapes and sizes.
21. Ember Leopard Gecko
The Ember is a result of mixing a RAPTOR and a Murphy Patternless leopard gecko. The result is a pale gecko with fire red eyes.
22. Electric Leopard Gecko
Electric leopard geckos were bred by Kelli Hammock from a specific female called Electra. They hatch black & yellow but grow to be orange with red hues. The red highlights are what differentiate them from other tangerine leopard geckos.
23. Giant Leopard Gecko
As the name suggests, Giant leopard geckos are the larger types of geckos. Males can weight up to 110 grams, while females can reach 90 grams.
24. Godzilla Super Giant Leopard Gecko
You don’t earn the name Godzilla for nothing. These are the largest of leopard geckos and can reach weights of over 150 grams and be over 10 inches long.
25. G Project Leopard Gecko
G Project is an abbreviation for Green Project. These awesome geckos have a almost full Carrot Tail and very distinct markings along their body.
26. Halloween Leopard Gecko
Halloween Leopard geckos have very distinct markings on their head and body. The markings on the head will often be different from the ones on the body, and will definitely stand out.
27. High Yellow Leopard Gecko
The High Yellow leopard gecko has a higher than normal amount of yellow coloration on its body. It also has fewer black markings than usual and was the first leopard gecko morphs to be created.
28. Hypo Ghost Leopard Gecko
Also known as Ghost leopard geckos, these reptiles show very light coloring. When they are young, they look like Mack Snows, but as they grow old the color of their skin gets lighter. This mix of Hypomelanistic trains and Albino traits is called Hybino. They may also be called Sunglow Morphs.
29. Inferno Leopard Gecko
Inferno (meaning hell in Latin) leopard geckos are named because of their bright orange color. Created by P. Kline, they are one of the most exotic leopard geckos.
30. Jungle Leopard Gecko
So aptly named, the Jungle leopard gecko’s pattern is very irregular, like a jungle. This irregular pattern is called Aberrant and most commonly appears in Mack Snow and Normal snow morphs.
31. Lavender Leopard Gecko
The Lavender leopard geckos display purple tones and hues on their skin. These tend to disappear as they get older. The term is applied to any leopard gecko with lavender hues and tones in their skin color.
32. Lavender Stripe Leopard Gecko
The Lavender Stripe leopard gecko has a stunning yellow background color with lavender stripes running along its body.
33. Lemon Frost Leopard Gecko
Lemon Frost leopard geckos are relatively new (being first hatched in 2012) and they enhanced and brightened base skin colors. This means that, unlike other morphs, the base colors are brighter than the patterns.
34. Leucistic Leopard Gecko
Leucistic leopard geckos can be confused for Patternless leopards. The differences being that Leucistic have no spots at all on their body and light reflecting cells in the skin.
35. Mack Snow Leopard Gecko
Mack Snow leopard geckos are known for only showing white and black colors. They have reduced or no yellow pigmentation, which results in their monochromatic color schemes. They will be born all white and develop their characteristic markings as they grow older.
36. Mandarin Leopard Gecko
This morph is the result of breeding some of the best Tangerine leopard gecko blood lines. They are incredibly orange and extremely bright.
37. Marble Eye Leopard Gecko
Marble Eye is a trait in leopard geckos who display a 3D marble effect in their eye. This trait is incredibly rare.
38. Melanistic Leopard Gecko
The Melanistic leopard is very similar to a Black leopard gecko, having increased black pigments in their skin. Breeders are currently working on totally black morphs although none are known of as of today.
39. Murphy Patternless Leopard Gecko
The Murphy Patternless leopard gecko is used by many breeders as a base model to get patternless traits. It is a solid color, which is usually yellow. Sometimes you might find a hint of purple in the color.
40. NDBE Leopard Gecko
Noir Desire Black Eye (NDBE) leopard geckos are Mandarin leopards with a recessive trait of having pure black eyes. They also have an overall darker orange tone body.
41. Nova Leopard Gecko
The Nova leopard gecko is a morph between Enigma and RAPTOR geckos. It has light coloring, normally from light yellow to tangerine orange.
42. Onyx Leopard Gecko
Onyx leopard geckos are greyish in color and display a black smudge-like pattern all over. Bred from TUG snows.
43. Paradox Leopard Gecko
Paradox leopard geckos have unpredictable spots in random places on their body. These spots are completely unplanned by breeders and can be anywhere on the reptile’s body.
44. Pastel Leopard Gecko
A Pastel leopard gecko is similar to a Tremper Albino, however, they are not associated. Pastels show enhanced pigmentation, leading to brighter colors on the body and white legs.
45. Purple Head Tangerine Leopard Gecko
The Purple Head Tangerine leopard geckos don’t have a literal purple head, instead they show hints of lavender around the patterns on their heads.
46. Radar Leopard Gecko
Radar leopard geckos are extremely rare and are a morph of breeding Bell Albino traits with Eclipse. However, it is only the truest of Radar geckos that have solid red eyes.
47. Rainwater Albino Leopard Gecko
Discovered by Tim Rainwater, this albino leopard gecko can be distinguished by the color of its skin. The Rainwater has lighter coloration with pink hints, and its eyes are also said to be the darkest. They are also the smallest and lightest of the Albino morphs.
48. Raining Red Stripe Leopard Gecko
These are rare and beautiful geckos. They are similar to Rainwater Albino geckos, due to it being a cross between them, Red Stripped leopard geckos and Bold Stripped. It is characterised by red stripes running down its body.
49. RAPTOR Leopard Geckos
Raptor is an acronym for Red-eye Albino Patternless Tremper Orange. These geckos have bright red eyes and orange bodies. They are the result of combining Eclipse, Patternless, Stripe and Tremper Albino varieties.
50. Red Stripped Leopard Gecko
The red stripped leopard gecko, as the name suggests has to prominent red stripes running down the back of its body. When they are young, the stripes will be brown and will become red as the animal matures.
51. Reverse Stripe Leopard Gecko
Like the stripped geckos, the reverse stripe has stripes running down the body. However, with normal stripped geckos, the stripes are brightly colored surrounding the plain color of the body. In reverse stripped geckos, the lines are dark, and the bodies are bright, with tails also being white.
52. Skittles Leopard Gecko
Skittles leopard geckos are incredibly bright colored, with hints of green, purple and other colors. The have a jungle pattern too.
53. Super Giant Leopard Gecko
The Super Giant is the second largest leopard gecko (between the two mentioned above). Males will average 110 grams while the females will average around 90 grams.
54. Super Hypo Leopard Gecko
Super Hypo leopard geckos have no spots on their body, but do however, have spotted patterns on their head and tail. They are known as Hypomelanistic leopard geckos because they have less melanin than other morphs.
55. Super Hypo Tangerine Carrot Tail Leopard Gecko
This type of leopard gecko is becoming a very popular pet. It is a one-line breed being bred since the 1980’s. To earn this name, however, the animal must have at least a 15-20% Carrot Tail.
56. Super Snow Leopard Gecko
Super Snow leopard geckos are usually the result of breeding two Mack Snows. They have solid colored eyes and heavy black speckling on a white background.
57. Tangerine Leopard Gecko
Any leopard gecko can be considered Tangerine, so long as it displays a large amount of orange coloration. However, Super Hypo Tangerines tend to have a higher value because they are the brightest.
58. Tangerine Tornado Leopard Gecko
The Tangerine Tornado leopard gecko is called so because it came out of nowhere. They are bright orange and have a red hue running along their body. The brighter the red hue, the more desirable the gecko is.
59. Tremper Albino Leopard Gecko
The Tremper Albino or Texas Albino was discovered by Ron Tremper, and is one the first to be discovered. Their skin color ranges from dark browns to light yellows. Its eyes are silver with red veins, which distinguish it from other Albino morphs.
60. TUG Snow Leopard Gecko
A TUG (The Urban Gecko) Snow leopard geckos have little, to no yellow pigment. They show great white coloration and reduced black spots.
