StretchX and I did these years ago in the early 90's as a test. A small clutch was produced and only one hatched which did not survive my early attempts to raise these things so I, we, never moved any of these out to the hobby. That is not to say that others have not.

This is just my opinion but collection records or data if you will for temporalis was quite sketchy in the pre Internet days when things were harder to verify. When I seriously began building my collection there was not enough verifiable locality stock that was additionally unrelated to truly justify keeping them separate. For my part I was simply looking to make sure I wasn't buying indirect siblings and even this was hard to prove out. (I define indirect siblings as the following: Breeder A produces 2.2 animals and sells one pair to breeder B and breeder C. Offspring produced by breeders B & C would be indirect siblings. My preference would always be to cross a pair from breeder B OR C with an unrelated line than to cross breed pairs from breeder B AND C).

Others of course felt differently and have maintained stocks along locality lines and have done a lot of additional collecting (a very slow process for temporalis)to beef up existing captive stocks. Given that good records are now kept I think there is plenty room for locality, generic and morph stocks.

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