One white, one red....

[luevelvet]

Hey Everyone,

Daytona kept us busy the past few weeks but I wanted to share an interesting specimen I recently acquired. Labeled as U. malama, she's currently the size of an adult phantasticus, very smooth and has a stunning pattern at times. The most interesting feature about her, though, is how each eye is a different color, one white, one red. We don't normally work with the ebenaui group much, having focused our attention on the larger, broad tailed Uroplatus, so I figured I would post an image and see if anyone else has come across something similar.

Cheers!

Luis

 

[tristan 92]

One of my female usually sleep with only one eye under the light, the other in the darkness of her tail, and when she do that, she have different eyes coloration so you have to wait a moment to know if it's this kind of "problem" or if she really have two eyes with different colors all the time ;-)

( I don't think it's U. malama, she has not a smouth skin enought, but it's hard to tell with this only picture )

 

[miguel camacho!]

Agreed, according to the species description, if it was indeed U. malama, it would lack the spines on the body. On the other hand, the picture makes it look as though this animal is lacking the spines typically located on the knees and elbows. Even the spines above the eyes seem slightly reduced. Any chance of a pic against a solidly colored background?

As for the eyes, I agree with Tristan. It's most likely a result of one eye being exposed to light (the white one), while the other was mostly in the dark (the dark red one). If I recall correctly, there is someone here who has a photo exhibiting the same thing as their avatar.

 

[luevelvet]

Working with chameleons, that was my first though too, but thanks for confirming it. I took the photo last night, after the lights were out, but she's still like that today. I'll see about taking a pic on a solid background to compare...

Thanks everyone!

Luis