Thecadactylus oskrobapreinorum: A new species from St. Maarten

**mat.si** · #1 11-11-2011, 03:20 AM

I'm not sure, if anybody has already mentioned it here, but a new species of Thecadactylus has been described a few months ago.

Thecadactylus oskrobapreinorum

A new species of Thecadactylus from Sint Maarten, Lesser Antilles (Reptilia, Squamata, Gekkonidae)
ZooKeys 118: 97–107

Thecadactylus oskrobapreinorum - Species-ID

http://www.pensoft.net/J_FILES/1/art...G-3-layout.pdf

**Graham_s** · #2 11-11-2011, 05:19 PM

Thanks for sharing this one, Matjaz! I had heard this species had been described, but hadn't found the article until now. Let me know if you have some success breeding this species

**mat.si** · #3 11-11-2011, 05:41 PM

Got my first two pairs last December and two more this year.
Since the species was officially described, the price went up quite a bit.
I probably have the largest group in captivity at the moment apart from the original importers.

I Have 5 good eggs incubating presently (they always lay single eggs). Hopefully everything goes fine with incubation. Egg #1 is at 4 months now, but it will probably go on for at least another month. T. rapicauda eggs supposedly take about 5 months to hatch.
The original importers have supposedly hatched a couple of babies by now, so those were the first F1 captive hatched babies.
Hopefully I'll be the second to hatch some of these beauties.

Matjaz

shamrock75 · #4 11-25-2011, 11:19 PM

Can't wait until some of these geckos make it to the US,I'll be really interested in a breeding pair.