Well i think shes argentine because of the 2 scales plus her scales are beeded they dont feel smooth. What do u think tupinambis after looking at the pictures?
Well i think shes argentine because of the 2 scales plus her scales are beeded they dont feel smooth. What do u think tupinambis after looking at the pictures?
oh, didn't mean to cast doubt on that, yours is certainly Tupinambis merianae, just don't want people to get in the rut of 1:2 meaning T.teguixin:T.merianae because it simply doesn't hold to all occassions.
I'm missing a post about beaded vs smooth scales...
Is this in reference to the Colombian's smoothness? I never really thought of it in that way before. Is it used as a way to differentiate species?
Tupinambis, if loreal counts vary from the norm, what does academia use to differentiate T.teguixin from T.merianae?
Laura R (FL)
1.0.0 Colombian Tegu
1.4.0 Argentine B&W Tegu
1.2.0 Red Tegu
1.2.0 B/WxRed Tegu
1.0.0 Green Ameiva (yet another teiid)
7 other lizards
1 little gator
3 FL box turtle
1 Sulcata tortoise
16 snakes
5 fuzzy pets
4 little frogs
a bunch of creepy bugs
and a partridge in a pear tree
I look for the black & white stripes on the side of the Argentines. Columbians tend to have a salt & pepper look.
1.1 Blue Tegus, 1.1 Cuban Rock Iguanas
1.1 Bearded Dragons, 0.1 Veiled Chameleon
0.1 Columbian Boa, 1.0 Ball Python, 0.0.1 Corn
Academia currently uses a bunch of different criteria: loreal scales, femoral pores, scale counts, head scalation, etc. and weighs the criteria as deems fit. The standard is that Tupinambis merianae have 2 loreal scales, and that T. teguixin has 1, but these are not "iron-clad" rules, just because a tegu has one loreal doesn't automatically disqualify it from being T.merianae. Some of the traits show a fair degree of variation, and so this has to be taken into account. I've seen plenty of T.merianae now with a single loreal, and sometimes it's one loreal on one side, two loreals on the other.
What about the stripes on the sides? I've never seen a merianae without them or a teguixin with them, but I haven't seen many teguixins.Originally Posted by tupinambis
1.1 Blue Tegus, 1.1 Cuban Rock Iguanas
1.1 Bearded Dragons, 0.1 Veiled Chameleon
0.1 Columbian Boa, 1.0 Ball Python, 0.0.1 Corn
The stripes on the side are fairly characteristic of the merianae clade, but not really restricted to Tupinambis merianae alone. Colour patterning is a fairly weak criteria beings as there's so much variation.
Have seen any teguixin with stripes?
1.1 Blue Tegus, 1.1 Cuban Rock Iguanas
1.1 Bearded Dragons, 0.1 Veiled Chameleon
0.1 Columbian Boa, 1.0 Ball Python, 0.0.1 Corn
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