Geckos that look like leopards??? New Species

[Karababy]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090925/ap_on_re_as/as_mekong_new_species

 

[g3ckosr4me]

It is a cave gecko some one posted one about this "new morph" earlier

 

[Neo.Reptiliac]

Not only is it not new. It also looks horrible - the poor thing looks like its starved to death.

 

[Golden Gate Geckos]

It is a 'new' species of Goniursaurus, or 'cave gecko'. There is an ongoing problem with taxonomy on this specie in that they are not being accurately represented and being sold to exporter/importers as a sub-specie or locality they are not. These geckos are actually more closely related to Coleonyx elegans and C. mitratus from Central Amercia.

The gecko in the photo is a gecko from the wild, and they are certainly not as 'well-fed' as geckos in captivity. If you look at pictures of most geckos in the wild, they look pretty bad by our standards.

 

[robin]

Not only is it not new. It also looks horrible - the poor thing looks like its starved to death.

as marcia started that is a wild gecko in its native environment but if you look at the captive bred ones, they are not fat geckos and have a much slimmer body.

 

[prettyprincess3690]

Aww...poor thing looks sick

 

[robin]

it's not just in it's natural environment in the wild

 

[VitalTears]

poor lil guy...