And I now know what you and gulo meant by how popular they are! I visited the reptile expo in White Plains, New York, over the weekend and saw at least a few dozen leachianus from several different locales and members of the nominate and henkeli subspecies.
Where are aubrianus found in the wild? Didn't find anything when I Googled it earlier.
the original paper describing aubryanus (in 1873) isn't available online so I can't see where it was collected, but there was only ever one specimen and it was lost when part of the Natural History Museum in Lisbon was destroyed in a fire in 1978.
The specimen was originally described as a distinct species; apparently the only difference from leachianus is in the scalation on the top of the head.
the original paper describing aubryanus (in 1873) isn't available online so I can't see where it was collected, but there was only ever one specimen and it was lost when part of the Natural History Museum in Lisbon was destroyed in a fire in 1978.
The specimen was originally described as a distinct species; apparently the only difference from leachianus is in the scalation on the top of the head.
they aren't found in the pet trade. Nobody knows what the original specimen was (in terms of whether it was species, subspecies, or just an abberation) and it can't be determined now because the specimen is destroyed and the original description is apparently not good enough to settle the matter.
they aren't found in the pet trade. Nobody knows what the original specimen was (in terms of whether it was species, subspecies, or just an abberation) and it can't be determined now because the specimen is destroyed and the original description is apparently not good enough to settle the matter.
the original description probably does have a collection locality, but I haven't read it. Bocage collected many reptiles throughout New Caledonia and the surrounding islands.
