Steno Petri, doriae or sthenodactylus?

[Nicke]

Trying to find a good caresheet I saw several pictures of animals that were supposed to be S petrii. Some of them looked like my (I suppose) S petrii, but some didn´t.

So what do you guys say? Are my animals S petrii or something else?

 

[Pierre]

Hi Nicke,

to my opinion,that is not S.petrii.petrii look totally different...
the picture is bad but here is one petrii i used to keep.

in petrii,the tail is whip-like,ground color and back pattern are different.etc...
i'm pretty sure of that.

yours looks like a kind of Stenodactylus sthenodactylus.
i wouldn't go for a S.doriae .
how big is it?

Pierre

 

[Nicke]

Thanks a lot. My animals are about 8-10 cm total length and as you can see the tails are not that whiplike. As you can see they are uniformly patterned all over the back, head, sides and tail. The belly is plain white.

That´s why I asked. It seems like there is a rather big confusion regarding which species are sold as which and even if I don´t plan to get rid of my animals it is crucial when you want to make an addition to your collection that you know what species you really have.

 

[Pierre]

as far as i know ,in Europe,S.sthenodactylus are quite often offered as S.petrii by the pet trade and S.petrii is sometimes sold as S.doriae...
and some other Stenodactylus are sold without a name,because no one knows what they are,here is a picture of a Stenodactylus big morph i used to have:

they were really huge!

good luck with yours.


Pierre

 

[Silvershark]

Looks like S. sthenodactylus to me