Pygopus
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bjoern rolfes
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Very nice. Good luck with them. Are they only eating lizards?
Regards
Bjorn
Regards
Bjorn
nathanbrisvegas
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Hi Henry
very impresive are they local specific ?
thinking of keeping them or moving them on ?
cheers
Nathan
very impresive are they local specific ?
thinking of keeping them or moving them on ?
cheers
Nathan
BlakeDeffenbaugh
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OK I feel kind of dumb but are these legless lizards? They are really cool looking.
Ken Bartenfeld
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Good job, Henry! I've never seen these before. Bet you feel great about breeding them!!!
danscantle
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They are pygopods, the legless geckos.
BlakeDeffenbaugh
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Thats awesome. I've never seen them or even heard of legless geckos before.
danscantle
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Lialis burtonis is the only species for sale in the states. It is always sold under the "Lizards" section on kingsnake.com, instead of the geckos section where it belongs.
Ken Bartenfeld
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Only eat geckos or lizards too right? I could imagine other snakes, but I am not positive.
jabberwock486
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legless gecko? wow never heard of that. honestly i have only seen legless skinks. being a legless gecko, to opposite end of the gecko evolution spectrum, is really kind of odd. geckos are known for their specialized feet and in this case the complete lack of!
wonder who they are related to? anyone have this info?
wonder who they are related to? anyone have this info?
G'day all,
So far I've not heard of any other breeders managing to get this species (P. schraderi) to breed in captivity. I've only had my adults for a year and a bit, and when i put them together they mated straight away. Eggs were produced sometime later and the babies hatched some time after that.
Too easy.
The adults eat crickets and wood ****roaches (Nophoeta cinerea). The juveniles are eating crickets.
Pygopus will eat skinks, but they seem to prefer insects and soft fruit. Pygopus lepidopodus particularly love mango and banana.
-H
So far I've not heard of any other breeders managing to get this species (P. schraderi) to breed in captivity. I've only had my adults for a year and a bit, and when i put them together they mated straight away. Eggs were produced sometime later and the babies hatched some time after that.
Too easy.
The adults eat crickets and wood ****roaches (Nophoeta cinerea). The juveniles are eating crickets.
Pygopus will eat skinks, but they seem to prefer insects and soft fruit. Pygopus lepidopodus particularly love mango and banana.
-H
danscantle
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Leglessness and limb reduction is a recurring theme in squamate evolution. Dibamids, geckos, amphisbaenians, anguids, scinids, cordylids, lacertids, gymnophthalmids, and snakes (of course) have all lost limbs.
The family Pygopodidae is most closely related to Carphodactylidae, which includes Nephrurus, Phyllurus, Carphodactylus (and others). Diplodactylidae (Strophurus, Diplodactylus, Oedura, Rhacodactylus, etc) is the sister group to this nearly exclusively Australian lineage (according to recent papers). This is why if you consider knobtails to be geckos, and crested geckos to be geckos, and tokay geckos to be geckos, pygopods are also geckos.
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