> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Frank Hoertling)
> Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2001 15:55:53 -0400
>
> hy Daniel,
> there is a pic from a Urocotyledon inexpectata from Mahe /Seychelles:
> www.geckos.de/seychellen.html
>
> Frank H.
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb:
>> Does anyone know about the habbits of these geckoes?
>> Does anyone know what they look like or what species/genera they are related
>> too?
Here's a fairly lousy translation of the German text on the web page
Frank mentions:
We discovered a gecko unknown to us in the evening. The animal was on
a palm trunk near our house. Due to the twilight, the animal appeared
beige to yellowish to us and had a size of approx. 8 cm. Unfortunately
we did not succeed in catching this animal, and our further search was
unsuccessful. Also in the following evenings we did not succeed in
finding this unidentified night-active gecko.
Through a lucky coincidence we nevertheless found the animal 2 weeks
later: In the evening we parked our rented car under the
abovementioned palm and the cross-beam (?) of the auto made a cosy
place for the animal. When we went to use our auto the next morning,
we discovered the gecko. We caught and photographed the animal.
Afterwards we released the gecko again. It wasn't possible to identify
the animal locally, since we had not ever seen a such gecko. We could
only detect by the eyes that it concerned an night-active type and that
the cloacal area was dyed orange. The animal had amazing abilities to
change its colour. The chromatic spectrum went from bright beige to a
dark brown. Furthermore we noticed that the toes of the animal were
cup-like widened.
Later, after we sent the photo to the publishing house of the
Herptofauna, the editor told us that the animal had been identified on
the basis the photo as Urocotyledon inexpectata.
I wonder if the orange color on the venter indicates a relationship
with Lygodactylus? According to the EMBL database, there are some
other Urocotyledon species in Cameroon, Congo and Tanzania.
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