Intresting news

luc · #1 04-22-2010, 11:37 AM

New Zealand gecko spotted for first time in 100 years... dead in mousetrap - Telegraph

Minhawali · #2 04-22-2010, 05:30 PM

That is good news!
Just hope the rats don't get to them.

Here some pics I took a few years back in NZ.

Cheers,
Johan.

sikorae · #3 04-22-2010, 05:33 PM

Sad for that particular gecko, but good news if it shows there is probably a population of this species after all this time.

Dyesub Dave · #4 04-22-2010, 06:40 PM

WOW .... it can live for 50 YEARS!!!

Now that's a commitment!

Dyesub Dave.

TM Geckos · #5 04-23-2010, 02:22 AM

Does H. duvauceli not have green eyes ?
He has red eyes on your picture.

oli · #6 04-23-2010, 10:08 AM

The duvauceli is said to have yellow or olive eyes. What type gecko is that Minhawali? Is that a h. maculatus?

Minhawali · #7 04-23-2010, 03:04 PM

Oli,

That gecko is a H.duvaucelii.
A real monster. As big as a male tokeh.

Cheers,
Johan.

oli · #8 04-23-2010, 10:02 PM

That gecko is awesome, I heard there were bigger New Zealand geckos, is that true?

Minhawali · #9 04-24-2010, 03:02 AM

Oli,

H. duvaucelii is the biggest NZ gecko. It's in fact the biggest living lizard of NZ.

The biggest was the extinct Hoplodactylus delcourti (370mm SVL) known from one mounted specimen at the National History Museum in Marseille, France.

Johan.

oli · #10 04-24-2010, 02:42 PM

That is the one that I have heard of, supposedly it is bigger or of similar size to a leachianus.