Eclipse Leopard Geckos
Visual Eclipse leopard geckos have solid black eyes, though hatchling eyes can later turn snake-eyed or clear. Recessive; the gene behind RAPTOR and Typhoon.
About the Eclipse gene
Eclipse is an eye gene first. A visual Eclipse has solid black eyes. The rest of the animal shows speckling, sometimes a patternless stripe, and white markings on the nose, feet and tail. High white Eclipses carry that white further, onto the neck and body.
The eye is not always fully black. It can be black, clear, or split, part black and part clear, so check the eyes in a listing photograph against what the label says.
Age matters here. Eclipse hatchlings come out with jet black eyes and those eyes do not always stay that way. Some become only partly covered as the gecko grows, an expression keepers call snake-eyed, and some clear to a normal eye altogether. A photograph of a fresh hatchling is not a promise about the adult, so if eye expression matters to you, ask the seller what the eyes looked like at hatching and what they look like now.
Eclipse is recessive. Het Eclipse, 50% Het Eclipse, 66% Het Eclipse and Pos Het Eclipse all look like a normal leopard gecko.
Eclipse turns up in a lot of combination morphs. RAPTOR is Albino (Tremper) plus Eclipse. Total Eclipse, also traded as Galaxy, is Super Snow (Mack) plus Eclipse, so the super in that name belongs to the Snow gene. Typhoon is Albino (Rainwater) plus Eclipse. Diablo Blanco is Albino (Tremper) plus Blizzard plus Eclipse, and White Knight is Albino (Bell) plus Blizzard plus Eclipse.
Eclipse dates to 2004.