Sexual Dimorphism in Sumatrans

[gekkocorner]

Here are a few more pictures of my new Sumatrans. From the group I have it appears that there is sexual dimorphism between the sexes. We'll have to wait until we have a few captive bred babies and see if they exhibit the same traits.

All of my Males have a full or almost full well defined back stripe, while the females have no stripe at all or a very thin one.

I noticed that the Cat Geckos from Borneo are very similar to the Sumatrans and I was wondering if they show the same characteristics.

Anyways here are a few pics of 3 males first:

 

[gekkocorner]

and here are two of the Females:

 

[Jordan Ondras]

Very Nice!!!!!!!!

 

[rhacoboy]

Very nice! Good information too, I wish you the best of luck with these guys.
Just curious, how many pairs are you working with?
Thanks,
-Armen

 

[gekkocorner]

Thanks Armen. I have three pairs and a few extra males.

Steven G.
Gekko Corner, INC.

 

[Riverside Reptiles]

Very nice! Good information too, I wish you the best of luck with these guys.
Just curious, how many pairs are you working with?
Thanks,
-Armen

He bought them all so that none of the rest of the experienced cat gecko keepers could have a chance to work with them :roll::roll::roll:

 

[gekkocorner]

hahaha do I read hate on that message Ethan? I bought them all to make sure that I had a good number of bloodlines, and since they were only some females available I wanted to make sure that I had a few in case some of them didn't make it.


Thanks.

Steven G.
Gekko Corner, INc.

 

[rhacoboy]

Thanks Armen. I have three pairs and a few extra males.

Steven G.
Gekko Corner, INC.

Congrats! I hope you have great luck with these guys and can offer some CBB to the public in the coming years! Are they frequently importing these guys?
-Armen

 

[gekkocorner]

Congrats! I hope you have great luck with these guys and can offer some CBB to the public in the coming years! Are they frequently importing these guys?
-Armen

Thanks Armen. I was really looking forward to working with some locale specific Cat Geckos. I already have a few 'unknown Locale' cats and they have been doing great for me, I have a few babies from them and some eggs incubating.

As far as I am aware this was the first shipment ever of Sumatran Cat Geckos. Some breeders in Europe have the green eyed ones from Borneo that are very similar to these, but Borneo and Sumatra are quite a distance apart. I'm sure there are differences between them, but I haven't been able to get any detailed information about the ones from Borneo.

Steven G.
Gekko Corner, INC.

 

[Luperosaurus]

It is really interesting.... I never heard that Aeluroscalabotes live on Sumatra. Any article about new locality? I have ask you about because I have keep Borneo green eye form and for me they looking absolute same with specimen on the pictures.

 

[gekkocorner]

It is really interesting.... I never heard that Aeluroscalabotes live on Sumatra. Any article about new locality? I have ask you about because I have keep Borneo green eye form and for me they looking absolute same with specimen on the pictures.

No Article as far as I know. Next year I'll try to bring some 'Borneo' locales from Europe if I can find any, along with some other Geckos that I want.

Then I'll be able to compare the locales and see how/if they show any differences. ( So far all my Sumatrans are quite smaller than my adult females from 'unkown locale' ).

Are you still breeding the ones from Borneo?

Steven G.
Gekko Corner, INC.

 

[Luperosaurus]

I have 4 eggs in incubator and female are pregnant again.

 

[gekkocorner]

Very Nice!!! Congratulations. She does indeed looks very much like my females.

Are your males fully striped? if yes, I'm guessing that we do have sexual Dimorphism in the striped / green eyed locales.

Thanks for your valuable information.

Steven G.
Gekko Corner, INC.

 

[Luperosaurus]

Hello Steven,
At the present time I have no any male because they all came in terrible conditions and was died very soon. Friend of mine have keep the group of them and as I have seen a white strip really at males more intensive and is much longer than at females.But not allways...

 

[Tony C]

Where does one find cat geckos with locality data? All that I have seen for sale have either been listed with no locality, or simply "Malaysia" which is not specific enough to be of much value.

 

[Riverside Reptiles]

Where does one find cat geckos with locality data? All that I have seen for sale have either been listed with no locality, or simply "Malaysia" which is not specific enough to be of much value.

There's very few people in the US selling locality specific cats. As you said, most of what you're likely to find are of unknown locality. Even these "Sumatran" cats don't have much as far as locality data. There are a lot more breeders of locale specific felinus in Europe though. So if you're serious about getting some, you may want to try to get some sent over from the Hamm show in Sept.

 

[Tony C]

There's very few people in the US selling locality specific cats. As you said, most of what you're likely to find are of unknown locality. Even these "Sumatran" cats don't have much as far as locality data. There are a lot more breeders of locale specific felinus in Europe though. So if you're serious about getting some, you may want to try to get some sent over from the Hamm show in Sept.

Thanks for the info. I won't be ready for cats in September, too many other projects going on at the moment, but I'll keep it in mind for the Hamm shows next year.

 

[gekkocorner]

There's very few people in the US selling locality specific cats. As you said, most of what you're likely to find are of unknown locality. Even these "Sumatran" cats don't have much as far as locality data. There are a lot more breeders of locale specific felinus in Europe though. So if you're serious about getting some, you may want to try to get some sent over from the Hamm show in Sept.

There might be more specific locality information about the 'Sumatrans'. When I have more detailed information of the town/region in Sumatra where they were collected I'll post it here. As of now they are just "sumatrans''.



Steven G.
Gekko Corner, INC.

 

[Riverside Reptiles]

They're from Borneo, not Sumatra.

 

[gekkocorner]

They're from Borneo, not Sumatra.

Yeap. I was just informed. The importer had made a mistake. Borneos are just as good as we didn't have any here in the States yet.

Thanks Ethan.