[ReptiRutger]

Yesterday we bought 1.2 Cyrtodactylus pulchellus. We bought them at the show in Houten (Netherlands). Even there they couldn't get enough of eachother:



Close-up:


The male:


Terrarium:

[ptenopus]

great stuff!

[Tariq Stark]

Great looking animals Rutger. I almost wet myself last sunday. When I got these animals out of their bag they were already humping each other in their transportbox! Hope they do well for you!

Tariq Stark

[ReptiRutger]

@ tariq,

hope that they will be happy in their new enclosure!

[aja19919]

Nice Vivarium. Couldn't you have made them a little hotel room?

[knotsnake]

Dear friends,

This gecko's name have changed be Cyrtodactylus macrotuberculatus Grismer et al., 2008. There are more strongly pyramidal tubercle on dorsum and other parts of body, including on venter than C. pulchellus.

left: Cyrtodactylus macrotuberculatus
right: Cyrtodactylus pulchellus

[Bowfinger]

Interesting, I knew of these being looked at but not by Grismer. Anyone have a pdf of this. Those to me do not look like Malaysian in knotsnake post(at least the right picture) and it was my understanding any study recently was going on in in Thailand, forms that are distinct in themselves from Malaysian forms like Reptirudgets pictures. Any idea if this was the only split, as there are more distinct forms.
Last time I talked to Grismer, it was (or turned into) a debate of the pulchellus group so maybe a sparked a fire in him lol...either way good news and thanks for the information.

[knotsnake]

I think, in Thai-Malaysia peninsular in cluding some islands there are atleast 2 form of pulchellus group should be another new species.

C. macrotuberculatus have not reported in any scientific plubicattions, only private data. We found both main land and some islands of the peninsular.

A one of pulchellus group from Malaysia which sould be new, I known it was from highland, not the same as my first picture. I had told Grismer last year.

[knotsnake]

Ahh...I'm sorry. ReptiRutger's photos are not C. macrotuberculatus. I just go back to see, they are the other Cyrtodactylus group from Malaysia.

[Bowfinger]

Keep us updated, your study with Lee is very interesting to me. Those in Reptirudgers post look like ones I have seen out of Highlands in my collection and field posts. I have a group I understand come just down from the Highlands, very similar in habitat and appearance to intermedius...here is a picture.

Let me know what you think.

Also, your second picture looks like Laos or Thai?, never seen those in captivity here in the US in my time.