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Sent: Tuesday, October 23, 2001 7:04
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Subject: [Gecko] German meeting
Hi all,
A short summary from yearly meeting with
Intressengruppe Phelsuma in G�ttingen(Germany).
As allways was this years meeting a great
one.During the two days you get the time to sit down
and discuss Phelsuma with other freaks.The
talks was very interesting and different temas made
it even moore interesting.There were a some
talks refering to traveling and looking for Phelsuma
from Maruritius,Reunion and of course
Madagascar.Some was about keeping and breeding different
species as P.inexpectata.
One that I found very interesting was a spech
about the relationships between Phelsuma species.This was
done totaly with DNA as conecting factor.Two
things that was really surprising was that P.guim.rosagularis
was not closest to P.guim.guimbeaui but to
P.cepediana and the most surprising though was the close
relationship
between P.anamanensis and
P.breviceps.
Of course lots of Phelsumas was for sale.Among
the species I could see were.P.hielscheri,P.guim.guimbeaui,
P.inexpectata,P.quad.lepida,P.lineata
subsp.,P.abb.sumptio,P.abb.checkei,P.nigristriata,P.astriata
astriata,
P.astriata semicarinata and a few moore.ALL OF
COURS CAPTIVE BREED!!!!
Magnus