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EVERYONE LOOK AT THIS IT'S A LITTLE FRIEND
#gecko#reptile#adorable#tiny#tiny friend#fish scale gecko#geck#squishy#squishy lil dude#Geckolepis#friend shaped
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Fish-scaled Gecko (Geckolepis megalepis), family Gekkonidae, northern Madagascar
photograph by Arthur Anker
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Geckolepis maculata a.k.a fish scale gecko.
#friend shaped#herpetology#geckos#Geckolepis#lizards#fish scaled gecko#fish scale gecko#gecko#lizard#herpblr#Geckolepis maculata#herpetology memes#chonky
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Tiny geckos [4/4] + Phylogenetic Tree
25 - Lined Gecko (Gekko vittatus)
26 - Northern spiny-tailed gecko (Strophurus ciliaris)
27 - Three-lined knob-tailed gecko (Nephrurus levis)
28 - Common flat-tail gecko (Uroplatus fimbriatus)
29 - Geckolepis megalepis, a species of fish-scale gecko
30 - Virgin Islands dwarf sphaero (Sphaerodactylus parthenopion)
31 - Delcourt's giant gecko (Hoplodactylus delcourti)
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Lizard!! (pt 1)
Southern Blind Legless Skink
Mexican Mole Lizard
omg, little man. he's so cute >:3c
Australian Barking Gecko
Cat Gecko
Least Gecko
Masobe Gecko
Geckolepis Megalepis
It strips to escape predators. Nakey.
Ebenau's Leaf-Tailed Gecko
Writhing Skink
Dotted Writhing Skink
Bobtail Lizard
Armadillo Girdled Lizard
California Whiptail
Rainbow Ameiva
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Geckolepis maculata by Paula Strickland (@paulajie)
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Perhaps it was unclear before why I love fish scale geckos so much. So here’s Exhibits A and B. From these the PURE MUPPET ENERGY (PME) is very easy to observe.
Geckolepis typica
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Fish Scale Gecko
Geckolepis megalepis
Source: Here
#scale#gecko#geckolepis megalepis#fish#geckos#reptile#reptiles#animal#animals#wildlife#nature#lizard#lizards
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New Gecko Species Strips Naked to Escape Predators
Geckos are famous for their ability to shed their tails to escape from the clutches of death. However, a newly discovered species of gecko takes it one step further by actively shedding its scales and baring all in a bid for freedom.
Geckolepis megalepis is a recently described species of fish scale gecko endemic to northern Madagasgar. Fish sale geckos are known for their large detachable scales, but this new species possesses the largest body scales of any known gecko. When touched, G. megalepis geckos can detatch their scales in an attempt to escape from predators and whilst this scale-shedding leaves them looking like a piece of raw chicken in the short-term, their scales will rapidly regrow in a matter of weeks.
“A study a few years ago showed that our understanding of the diversity of fish-scale geckos was totally inadequate,” says Mark D. Scherz, lead author of the new study and PhD student at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich and Zoologische Staatssammlung München, “it showed us that there were actually about thirteen highly distinct genetic lineages in this genus, and not just the three or four species we thought existed. One of the divergent lineages they identified was immediately obvious as a new species, because it had such massive scales. But to name it, we had to find additional reliable characteristics that distinguish it from the other species.”
All Geckolepis geckos are also known to shed, or autotomize, their scales when touched or grapsed. The scales of Geckolepis can come off with very little provocation and they have historically been difficult to identify due to their habit of losing their scales when caught.
Article title: “Off the scale“
#Large-scaled Fish Scale Gecko#Geckolepis megalepis#Geckolepis#Gekkoninae#Gekkonidae#Gekkonoidea#Gekkomorpha#Gekkota#Squamata#gecko#lizard#biodiversity#taxonomy
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#aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhh#squeeeeeeeee#fish scaled gecko#herps#reptile#gecko#geckolepis#geckolepis megalepis#lizard
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Fish-scaled Gecko (Geckolepis sp.), family Gekkonidae, Madagascar
photograph by ZTH Photography
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flag for typ / typica / typs / typicas / typself ? :D it's pronounced like "type" and based off of the grandidier's gecko ( geckolepis typica )
colors i got from the gecko. i hope you like i.
credit not needed but appreciated. let me know if it’s too similar to an already made flag.
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Have you heard of the fish scaled gecko (Geckolepis megalepis)? They are amazing and I think you would like them!
holy shit????
it’s really cute but their main defense is that THEIR SCALES SLOUGH OFF WHEN GRABBED, so half the pictures of them are unsettling pink quivering blobs
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A quick drawing of G. megalepis, the newly discovered Madagascan gecko!
Looks like it couldn’t scale up to its predators
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I don’t think this one’s made the rounds of reptiblr yet, but this is really cool.
Tagging @lapillus-the-gargoyle-gecko and @one-geck-to-rule-us-all because they’re the gecko folks I follow whose URLs I can remember off the top of my head.
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Hello Mark! I'm going to be doing a presentation in my Animal Behavior class about popular articles vs. peer-reviewed articles, and I'm focusing on the Geckolepis megalepis! I'm wondering what's your opinion on popular articles that have reported on the gecko? I'm most likely not going to speak of your opinion in the presentation, I'm honestly just curious!
That’s good because it took me two months to answer your question. In short, I thought that the media coverage was enthusiastic but superficial. I enjoyed speaking to a wide variety of journalists, but I must say that they ranged considerably in ability, from highly interested with great questions, to monotonous and brief with nothing really to ask as they had not even attempted to read the article. I was interviewed by more women than men, and I must say that the women were distinctly more professional and had higher quality questions, though there were a few exceptions on behalf of both sexes.
Also I found that most interviewers, regardless of sex, were incapable of distinguishing the process of species ‘discovery’ to the process of ‘description’, which explains the number of silly titles.
The craziest thing was having the gecko appear on my phone via snapchat stories and the BBC news app. That was totally surreal.
#Geckolepis#Geckolepis megalepis#that one time I named a gecko and the internet exploded#ethologys#Answers by Mark
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