New Species?

[Menhir]

Hi,

I hope that itr doesn't sound too dumb because I must some taxonomy thing. :rolleyes:
Okay, to the question: Yesterday there was Henkel on German TV in a docu-soap about wild pets. One could see some really nice geckos of his collection and so on. So, in the end, he said that he has a lone female of a "new species" that looked pretty much like a dark morph leachi and this may be the only female available at this time. So, he talked to a dendrobates breeder who said that he has a lone male that could fit his description and long story short, he visited him and it was the male "new species" that he was searching for so long.
So, please tell me about this new species or does he mean the dark morphs that are also treated as Rh. [cf.] leachianus in his book?

Thanks in advance and greetings from Nuremberg
Michael

[Allen Repashy]

LOL........ its a soap opera.. Willi told me about it on your trip and I about died laughing..... it is a fictional story!

[Luc]

I think the animals refered to as cf's are just a melanistic form of mnt koghis and Yate animals. What did the animals on tv look like, dark ?

[Menhir]

it is a fictional story!

One may get the impression that I'm a little bit stupid. Hence, I am clever enough to recognice the story itself as fictional. Especially since the frog breeder had totally different vivs and the gecko was housed in a Exoterra viv. By conincidence, Willis whole room was full of Exoterra vivs...

So, I did not think of a serious breeder like Henkel also inventing a fictional new species.

@Luc both animals were quite dark.

[phong]

Hi,

i uploaded the episode on my webspace. The movie is about 20mins long and 60MB large. The first time you can see the gecko Menhir talks of is at aboult the half of the movie. The movie is complete in german though.
You can get a quite nice impression of Willi´s reptilerooms. Plus you can see Dr. Dennert who is vet of the hamm show in germany in this video also.

www.napalm.at/priv/henkel01.mp4

greets

Ingo

[phong]

damn somehow doesnt work, ill check that later, i am in a hurry, sorry

[phong]

ok, somehow doesnt work to download it as mp4 so i ziped it. Link is www.napalm.at/priv/henkel01.zip

greets

Ingo

[phong]

oh my, why cant i edit posts here? Well i just loaded the vid to google videos: http://video.google.de/videoplay?docid=-4021191468736932259

[Luc]

So, I did not think of a serious breeder like Henkel also inventing a fictional new species.

In his book he also speaks about this form as if it would be an undescribed new leachianus subspecies (that's were the cf comes from).

[Menhir]

In his book he also speaks about this form as if it would be an undescribed new leachianus subspecies (that's were the cf comes from).

I have the book and thats the reason why I thought of the [cf] animals maybe already described now.