Chimera

Chimerism requires two embryos to fuse within their life-bearing parent and form one individual. The resulting riardi always will be sterile and is usually intersex, though chimera of other genders are possible. Other chimeras are referred to as “flux chimeras”- when the flux mutation creates a chimera-like effect. Regardless of birth mutation or flux at work, chimerism makes the affected riardi bear one fur pattern over the left side of their bodies and a second pattern on the right side.

Alternately, chimerism may instead cause affected individuals to bear one same fur pattern over their whole bodies as normal, but invert the colors’ placements from one another on left versus right sides- ex, a white zebra pattern with black stripes on one side and inverted on the other side.

Riardi with chimerism may also display heterochromia.

The first chimera originated within the tri-color variation of the diamondback fur pattern.