Lepidactylus lugubris - male

[pitrs]

Hi,

I have 2 females L. lugubris for 3 years. I bought the females as babys. I sell about 20 youngs a year. Last year I decided to keep one young.... and this came out.:yikes:
I don't know if any other babyes from these females turn out to be man.


If anyone will try if the male is fertile, I give him for free.

Tomas

 

[Geckos and Goannas]

thats crazy!!!! i mean these so far are know only to produce asexualy right? what a find. i recomend that you report it to a herpetologist. thats awome! i would love to have him but i live in the US.

 

[Palex134]

Very cool, it's surely a male, first one ive ever seen.

 

[PassPort]

WTF mate?

 

[pitrs]

Feel free for using this pictures.

Tomas

 

[BlakeDeffenbaugh]

I have heard either Rapashy or Caponetto I cant remember who but I think Rapashy. . either way I heard them say how there could be males. I think it had something to do with making stronger blood or something. I'd get ahold of him and see what he says. Thats a awesome find.

 

[danscantle]

These males pop up surprisingly often...

Aside from this and related papers, I've heard a few reports over the years...

Behavioural interactions between a rare male phenotype and female unisexual Lepidodactylus lugubris - Brown SG, MurphyWalker S

A rare male phenotype of the unisexual gecko, Lepidodactylus lugubris, was captured on the University of Hawaii, Hilo campus. The male was housed with females in different stages oftheir reproductive cycles. Observations were made of interactions between the male and individual females. The male approached females with either no evidence of egg development or small, probably ovarian, eggs more often than females with larger, probably oviductal, eggs; and was observed neck-biting and moving on top of females although no intromissions or copulations were observed. Female geckos were more aggressive than the male; the male was less likely to approach females that reacted to his approaches aggressively. Although it seemed that the male was attempting to court the female geckos, we do not know if courtship attempts failed because ofthe male or female behaviour. Sperm were present in the testes and epididymis. However, all motile sperm appeared to be headless, suggesting that the male was infertile.

 

[PassPort]

complete insanity. I'd love to have a male just so I could say I had 1.1 and trip out the general consensus.

 

[Palex134]

I wrote a research paper on Parthenogenisis in squamates and I remember coming upon some real quality sources on this topic, hopefully I can dig them up.

 

[MattL]

I remember years ago while talking to a certain fellow on Geckoworld he noted that most L. lugubris are females...although there are males out there.

Matt

P.S. Sweet gecko

 

[Lizardman]

I've heard that 1 of 1000 L.lugubris hatch out as males.
Thats just 0.1% chance to hatch out a male.
So I think you are very lucky to get these male.

Congrats!

Regards
Niclas

 

[Elizabeth Freer]

Tomas ~

Many thanks for sharing this info and your very definitive pictures. I've been breeding Lepidodactylus lugubris since 1988. Never have seen a male.

After this thread did you decide to keep him?

Hi,

I have 2 females L. lugubris for 3 years. I bought the females as babys. I sell about 20 youngs a year. Last year I decided to keep one young.... and this came out.:yikes:
I don't know if any other babyes from these females turn out to be man.


If anyone will try if the male is fertile, I give him for free.

Tomas

 

[Palor]

I had read that 1 of 10,000 will hatch out male and will be infertile. iI is really neat that you have a male, it is such a long shot to end up with one.