Help! Having an Identity crisis?

[porkchop]

Can some one help me Id this little guy? Pet shop said H. Frenatus, but this little guy is most active during the day. H. Frenatus is primarily nocturnal...Or so
I thought. Sorry about pic quality, I will try to get some better ones up soon.





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[PassPort]

frenatus are primarily active when they want to be active, but yes they are classified as nocturnal, and yes that's what your little friend is.

 

[Ingo]

Of course its not frenatus but platyurus -a 100% sure.

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Ingo

 

[reptiven]

seems to me

Can some one help me Id this little guy? Pet shop said H. Frenatus, but this little guy is most active during the day. H. Frenatus is primarily nocturnal...Or so
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Hello due to the non focus photos this seems to be Thecadactylus rapicauda

the fingers are too wide to be Hemidactylus

 

[porkchop]

That less fuzzy pic I promised

Thank you all for your help. Also here is a slightly better quality pic.

 

[vierfleck]

Hello,

Ingo is right,this is a Hemidactylus platyurus.

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Matthias

 

[Ingo]

Hello,

Ingo is right,this is a Hemidactylus platyurus.

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Matthias

And I confirm: 100% platyurus. I also do not see significant similarity to Thecadactylus. These do look quite different (kept them as well)


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Ingo

 

[reptiven]

And I confirm: 100% platyurus. I also do not see significant similarity to Thecadactylus. These do look quite different (kept them as well)


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Ingo

As i say it´s similar to Thecadactylus rapicauda cause the wide of the toes but not afirm that it is

it would help a lot to know where does it comes from

 

[Ingo]

Why should that help? It is a typical platyurus. Nothing, absolutely nothing unusual about this animal.

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Ingo

 

[reptiven]

Why should that help? It is a typical platyurus. Nothing, absolutely nothing unusual about this animal.

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Ingo

ok Ingo i don't know for sure if it is a platyurus or not but when you don't know so much about one specie you ask where does comes from so you can check if the specie you suppose it is so you can make sure

that's Biogeography

Regards

 

[Ingo]

But even than it is not so easy since platyurus has been introduced to so many places that it is not easy to find a comprehensive list of "new " locations where this species might occur .

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Ingo

 

[reptiven]

That's very interesting in my country we have several introduced species such as Hemidactylus mabouia which is one of the mayor problems that we have cause is banning most of the Gonatodes of Venezuela

interesting chat

Regards;-)

 

[Ricky_81]

Can some one help me Id this little guy? Pet shop said H. Frenatus, but this little guy is most active during the day. H. Frenatus is primarily nocturnal...Or so
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I keep H. Platyurus, and Frenatus at the moment.
Also have very healthy juveniles from them.

I'm surprised reptile shops have such a hard time keeping Frenatus and Platyurus apart.
Because Platyurus is an FLAT tail gecko, and Frenatus has a more round tail. Also, Platyurus has some flaps between their toes, which Frenatus doesn't have.
There skin coloration is different.
Also the behavior of Platyurus is more agressive, also against other species.

Look at the pics, the first is frenatus, second platyurus.

I think you have platyurus, or something that looks like it, but definitely not frenatus.