Kenny, I'm glad that you had a good time visiting with the collection and that Max was of help showing you some of the behind the scenes stuff. I'm sorry I couldn't be here to show you around. Once we are fully moved into the new building I plan to have a little "house-warming" and will be sure to let you know about that.
Too bad the importers (or exporters) don't generally keep track of locality data. It would be nice to know if this is a geographic variant you have, or just an odd individual. If you have access to Cope's China book, try using his key to Gekko. I used it on the Chinese morphs when they came in (about the same time frame as yours) and they didn't key as Gekko gecko. They keyed (using THAT key) as G. chinensis... which they clearly are NOT. But the point is that the squamation was not that of Gekko gecko either, which makes me thing even more strongly that they are something new. Greg At 10:38 PM 2/11/02 -0500, you wrote: >Hi everyone, > >Don't know if this was one of the lost posts or not so I am reposting >anyway, slightly edited. > >I'm back to the gecko list after a long hiatus. I finally finished the >Pine Bush cockroach work (don't ask...big pain but finally ID'd it). I >thought I would find out what Tokay (or Gecko sp.) keepers on the list >know about this "Tokay morph." > ><http://www.geocities.com/daygecko.geo/kbtokay.html>Chinese Tokay Race? >http://www.geocities.com/daygecko.geo/kbtokay.html > >About 3 years ago I posted to the gecko list about this strange Tokay. > >It was in with a bunch of Tokays at a wholesaler. It just didn't look >right, a greenish cast...weird eyes...slender body form. It never >interbred with my other Tokays....always being kept as an outcast of sorts >in the colony. Well, I got to the Peabody Museum on Saturday where they >have some preserved animals that really look quite close to what I >have...but not close enough. Those may even be another species. They >were a Chinese race. > >Anyone on the list working with Tokays like the one pictured? Note how >the post cloacal scales are not pointed as in the more common morph...but >flat and plate like. It also has a slender body and slender head shape. >THANKS for any help! > >A special thanks to Max Shpak fish/herp/wierd creature collections guy at >the Peabody for taking the photos and the view of the pickled coelacanth. > >Regards, > >Kenneth E. Barnett >(Tokays are Okay!!) ----- Gregory J. Watkins-Colwell Division of Vertebrate Zoology Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History 170 Whitney Avenue, P. O. Box 208118 New Haven, CT 06520-8118 Phone: 203/432-3791 FAX: 203/432-9816 http://www.peabody.yale.edu ########################################################################### THE GLOBAL GECKO ASSOCIATION LISTSERV WebSite: www.gekkota.com Archive: [EMAIL PROTECTED]/ The GGA takes no responsibility for the contents of these postings. ###########################################################################
