David Blair includes a certificate with his lizards and I think I will start doing the same thing. When JF told me about a male caymanensis that was for sale, I had my doubts about the purity of the lizard. Fortunately the seller had the original certificate from Dave Blair who I already knew had pure caymanensis and I bought the lizard who now a large adult and spot on caymanensis. As long as some sort of (hard to forge)documentation can follow the lizard, there can be some kind of proof of purity or origin just like pedigree papers for a dog. As far as the lewisi's are concerned, I feel that those of us that have and work with the high percentage lewisi's should start now with documentaion and certificates for these lizards, treat them as if they were pure, so these high percentage lizards will only produce high percentage offspring. I also think the name of the high percentage lewisi's should be changed to something all breeders can agree upon like "american lewisi" instead of "lewisi cross".

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