Is this a weird normal, or what? (white scale "tipping")

This little guy came into the shop where I work, and he doens't look quite like any other corn I've ever seen. He's got white tipped scales in the middle of, and aroudn the edges of, his saddles like some amels have -- but he's darkly pigmented, and the saddles are clearly ringed in black. His eyes are copper with dark pupils. He seems to be about "yearling" sized, eighteen inches or so and in a lanky stage.

Is this white tipping actually common in normal corns and I haven't seen it before? Or is he just an oddball, a regional varient, an obscure morph, or what? Anyone know?

full body


scale closeup


belly shot

are reg corns (rosey) are the same way

It's normal. I've noticed you usually see darker coloration in wild caught animals.