A much smaller species in the same genus.
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Lindsay Pike
Urotopia Uromastyx
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Blue but not so beefy
Lindsay
Mar 30, 2009 11:19 AM
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Lindsay
Mar 30, 2009 11:26 AM
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Gallotia atlantica
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Lindsay Pike
Urotopia Uromastyx
John-C
Mar 30, 2009 12:55 PM
Beautiful G a atlantica!
We have covered one of the largest Canary Island Gallotia
species (Gallotia stehlini) to one of the smaller gallotia sub
species (Gallotia atlantica atlantica).
The stehlini occurs in the Grand Canaria Island and the small
G a atlanitca occur in the Fuerteventure Island. A second sub
species and cousin to the smaller G a atlantica is the G a
mohoratae which occur in the N. Lanzarote Island.
The mohoratae (not shown) is also small but not as colorful
as the G a atlantica.
Nino, my stehlini are pretty calm and really used to me so
I can pretty much take breeding pictures most anytime with
little effort.
John
Nino
Apr 01, 2009 08:30 AM
@ Lindsay: This is by far the most beautiful specimen of G. a. atlantica I have ever seen! Most males have large blue-greenish spots on the sides, but rarely fused in such large bright-coloured area.
@ John: Lucky you! My male is reasonably calm, but female is very flighty and there's no chance of taking a good picture unless i hold her in my hand. My old female (deceised couple a years ago) was almost "bearded dragon tame", but other females I worked with were always very shy.
