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Published today in Zootaxa: Uroplatus finaritra, the 'giant' phantasticus from Makira, reaching total lengths of 15 cm, with a dark red mouth. This is the latest result of our work on the taxonomy of the Uroplatus ebenaui group, led again by Fano Ratsoavina. I'm thrilled that we have finally...

Hello everyone, some of you might have heard in the news recently that we have described a new species of Geckolepis from northern Madagascar, called Geckolepis megalepis. It was really amazing to see the global reaction to this new species. You can get direct access to the paper here...

Hello all! I just wanted to share a few shots of the Uroplatus my team and I found in the Bealanana district of northern Madagascar in December 2015/January 2016. Uroplatus sikorae Uroplatus sp. Ca1 (aff. ebenaui) You can see these photos and others on my flickr page. We found about ten...

Hello friends! Good news: there's a new species of Uroplatus on the block! Uroplatus fiera Ratsoavina, Ranjanaharisoa, Glaw, Raselimanana, Miralles & Vences, 2015 Semi-bad/semi-good news: some of you might have them already, and you might think that they're U. ebenaui. Here is the abstract...

Hey folks! I've spent the last six weeks on Mayotte doing surveys on the reptiles and amphibians of the island (minus one and a half weeks spent in Madagascar). We're producing a brochure to help with the identification of the local herp species, for which I've been photographing all of the...

I'm in the field right now on the French island of Mayotte, some 300 kilometres off the west coast of Madagascar. I popped over to Madagascar for 12 days to take part in the ACSAM2 conference for the conservation of Madagascar's amphibians. Of course, I couldn't pass up the opportunity to go in...

Hi all, I am in the early stages of setting up an expedition to try to find Phelsuma masohoala in the wild, back where it was first discovered in north eastern Madagascar. Officially it has not been seen again in the 20 years since its discovery. According to Dr. Frank Glaw (one of the leaders...

Hey guys, so some of you may remember my post from a few months ago, where I explained my academic rather than herpetocultural interest in the herpetofauna of Madagascar. In light of that interest, I wanted to update you on the most recent advance in our knowledge of this genus, so that we can...

New species of Cyrtodactylus from Vietnam was described in today's issue of Zootaxa. A new Cyrtodactylus (Squamata: Gekkonidae) from Phu Yen Province, southern Vietnam Thomas Ziegler, Trung My Phung, Minh Duc Le, Truong Quong Nguyen Zootaxa 3686(4):432-446 Abstract We describe a new species of...

Hey folks, it's been a seriously long time. I've been basically absent from the forum for about five years... but I'm back! (well, not officially yet; I'll be back for real at the end of May). I feel like it would be appropriate to talk about what I've been up to in the intervening years...

Hi folks, so I've been conducting research in southern Madagascar for the last two summers. On the last expedition, I found a fairly large number of P. androyensis, and what I think is probably a separate, closely affiliated, species, which I nominate P. sp. aff. androyensis. Their features...

Hey all, it's been a LONG time since I was last here on the forum, because school life really invaded all of my hobbies. Since then, one of my U. guentheri died, because his older sister was eating all of his food. I thought she was fantastically healthy, until two days ago, when I checked up...

Well, I guess it's been quite a while since I posted a topic on here that actually had anything to do with my animals, so I suppose it would be quite an idea to perhaps fill you in on a bit of the situation. I obtained two young Uroplatus guentheri in February of this year. They are about the...

Well, I figure I haven't posted enough pictures of Moof, so I think I probably should now. ;) I apoligze about picture size. go to http://the-moof.deviantart.com to see more pics, and the full size versions of all of these ones. ;) She's 3 years old now, and doing very well. Perhaps...

Is the condition known informally as Floptail (common in phelsuma, due to a lack of calcium and d3 in the gecko diet) known at all in Uroplatus? I think i recall seeing an exhibit that had some with floptial, but I'm not sure. Anyways, one of my baby guentheri is currently sitting on a dracanea...

For the last week, I have been corresponding with a gecko breeder here in Switzerland, and yesterday, I sent through the payment for 2 baby Uroplatus guentheri. Then, after school today, in the heavy snow, my father and I drove to her house to select the ones we wanted. She had about 8, all of...

Hey people, Well, my father recently discovered that one of his colleagues had an unused terrarium in their basement, and suggested that we take it off his hands. we did so. However, it turns out, this terrarium is larger than we expected. The dimensions are 2.5 x 0.5 meters (8x2 foot). Now...

Hey everybody, Ducky (docszoo), Brandon (not sure he knows this site), and I had a forum for a while, and decided that we would like to go a bit more official. So, about 2 months ago, i started work on the new website. So far, it is presentable, but work is being put into it. It is updated etc...

Hello, i was surfing Bill Love's website, and came across a collage with a picture of this gecko, and was immediatley struck by the fact that i had never heard of it. What do we know of this species? regards, *the moof*

Hello, I am keeping a phelsuma, and have often wanted to put orchids into her tank. Having done this 3 times, i have never sucessfully kept the orchid alive to bloom particularly long. Can anyone give me advice on how to keep an orchid alive in such humid conditions, and suggest species to use...