Unknown Hemidactylus sp. from Somalia identification needed..

[lessthantito]

sounds like an exciting/interesting trip

 

[pitrs]

I think that on picture 1 and 2 is some Stenodactylus species

 

[danscantle]

All of the geckos he posted, with the exception of Hemitheconyx taylori, are Hemidactylus species. You can tell they are not Stenodactylus because the toes bear both well developed claws and pads, features that are missing in Stenodactylus

 

[TOM_P]

Merry Christmas from Somalia !

Well those following the H. talory thread in this forum will already know that im back on my second trip to Somalia. I almost got ambushed 2 days ago in te bush and am happy to be back in the hotel for christmas.

Being christmas day today I decided to share a bunch of new pictures of some geckos and a bunch of other stuff I found here. I know its a gecko forum but I hope noone minds if I also post pictures of a few other lizards from Somalia here aswell.

Merry christmas to you all !:yahoo:

Big Hemidactylus species with claws and lamellae

Hemidactylus species living in trees (or maybe homopholis fasciata ssp. ?)

A small Hemidactylus species from Puntland NE Somalia

A nice Agama from Puntland (NE Somalia)

Very nice young male red phase Xenagama taylori from Somaliland

a pair of Uromastyx macfadyeni from Somaliland

My favourite old male (extremely rare in a light green phase) Uromastyx princeps from Puntland (almost got shot at in a ambush 2 days ago trying to collect the little bugger and his friends in a remote area of Puntland). I will need to take a better picture of them in the sunlight..

And a very unusual coloured Hemitheconyx taylori from Gardo in Puntland

 

[sune jensen]

Tom,

Thanks for those pics.....
You just gave me the best present this year.

If I may ask, how large was that agama. I used to be into phrynocephalus and trapelus, and the one in the pic makes me remeber why I loved small agamas...

Sune

Ps. Take care out there, as much as we love the stuff you bring home and the pics you show, it is not worth it to risk your life over it.

 

[Palex134]

Incredible Xenagama, that is one of the most gorgeous specimens I have ever seen. Great herps, glad your okay, and it looks like you collected some beautiful keepers!

 

[TOM_P]

Thanks allot !

It makes me happy to hear you like the pictures.
The Agama actually is relatively large.. about the size of a large Phrynosoma, lets say the size of a fist ( about 5 inch / 12 cm body length without the tail).

I even forgot to take pictures of my Pristrurus geckos from Puntland ... :idea: But they are so small and soooooo fast im not sure ill manage to get anything viewable out of them. Ill try tomorrow.:blushing:

 

[TOM_P]

Pristurus

Well as promised here still a pic of one of the Pristurus (a adult male) I found in Puntland. Its not 100% sharp but its not too bad...

I decided to beef up my security a bit since last weeks incident.. I posted a little video of my escort.. they dont like me to film them so I had to sneak on them for the last few seconds of this clip on the way to my base on the Puntland Border..:biggrin:
YouTube - Arriving in Las Anod with my military escort

 

[TM Geckos]

thanks for these photos.
It is a pleasure.
The red Xenagama is so lovely !!

 

[Adrizoo]

Very nice lizards indeed! I recently bought some xenagama's very similar to this one. The importer says me that they're from a mountain in north of Somaliland... Maybe the same locality than this one??

Thanks a lot for those pictures!

 

[theviperking]

H. taylori

Hi Tom!!
Waiting for your reply for the Hemitheconyx taylori...
I'm ready too keep them too...
But really want to know more about them!!

 

[Ken Bartenfeld]

Never saw this thread, great pics!!! Those are some amazing looking Hemis for sure!

 

[Geckos and Goannas]

great pics! OMG that Pristurus makes me want to cry!!! i want it sooooo bad!!! lucky $%*#! :evil: jk. do you know what species it is?

 

[TOM_P]

A few more of the Hemidactylus

I just thought I will add a picture or two more that I took recently:

Hemidactylus species (same species but different colour as some previous pictures)

Pristrurus somalicus

Another "new" Hemidactylus species from the center of northern Somalia

Uromastyx macfadyeni in Somalia (female on top - male below with blue head)

Xenagama spec. (much bigger than taylori so more like a batillifera, but the tail is absolutely a taylori.. so i am not sure what this is..):roll:

 

[TOM_P]

Pristrurus

Hi Redtegu

I am not sure what species of Pristurus it is but I think it might be Pristurus phillipsi. I will be sending DNA samples out soon and hope that will help Identify some of the animals.

Best regards

Thomas

 

[Geckos and Goannas]

You are so lucky to be working with herps like that especially the Pristurus (after all im a really big fan of Pristurus). let me know what they end up being. I just got done on a Pristurus carteri page on wikipedia and would love to work on others or atleast know someone is ( there was nothing writen on them exept the sscientific names). let me know what they turn out to be. Good luck with your other species too!

 

[tanala]

that Hemidactylus on the 3rd photo looks absolutely great! Did you find more of this?

 

[Bowfinger]

This kind of post unveils that this is not just a "gecko hobby", it is a treasure hunt and an adventure!

http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/net...jpeg?x=400&y=224&sig=B6jJG3VqqiQVJBMka.HO6Q--

 

[TOM_P]

Another Pristurus from Somalia

I just thought Ill add a picture of another Pristurus I found in Somalia last week. I now know (after DNA sampling results came back) that the last ones I posted are Pristurus somalicus.

I should know what species this is before too long.

 

[TOM_P]

Its been years since I posted on this thread so thought Ill add some recent pictures.