GLOWLIGHT DANIO - DANIO CHOPRAE

Just a little video of some Glowlight Danios in a friends store.

Now these were known to me under the Latin name or Danio choprae but I have also recently seen people list it as Brachydanio choprae so not really sure which of the two genus names is the correct one.

From a taxonomical viewpoint it is a hard one to call for me. It certainly IS different from the Zebra and Leopard Danios but may more like them than other members of the Danio genus?!

It has been a long time since I really looked at and of the names of this Danio group and I know there are a couple of larger ones too. The spotty and stripey Danios are all very closely related and as far as I know I have seen two spotty ones, one with both stripes and spots. Along with these there is some fiery finned variety called Danio kithyit if that is a proper name and not some temporary one that has been assigned be a breeding farm in Singapore?! All these are closely related and more so to each other than Danio choprae is to any of them.

Also some Danio species hybridize and for me this is a very strong reason for two separate species to belong to the same family.

I believe this of amphibians also and used to think that for reptiles but of late some really bizarre things have been happening in the reptile world and I find it very odd. When pointed out to others they then do find it odd too. So I cannot apply this rule to reptiles anymore and bizarrely it is only within SNAKES taht this applies, lol.

More next post.

WHITE ALBINO CHIPMUNK - TAMIAS STRIATUS

One hell of a cute fella, or girlie, lol.

CARAMEL HOG ISLAND BOA - BOA CONSTRICTOR IMPERATOR

Unusual and nice colour morph of a Hog Island Boa which is basically a Boa constrictor that is found on....hmmm an ISLAND! Lol!

Sure they used the word 'Caramel' when they were telling me the name which I then forgot all about. So it may only be half correct, lmao.

CORN SNAKE EATING A BIRD - ELAPHE GUTTATA

Yup the gruesome part of keeping a pet snake is feeding it!

Do not worry this bird was already dead and nothing goes to waste and provides a varied diet for the snake.

ROSY BOA - LICHANURA TRIVIRGATA

Someone I know is right into these though I have no idea why that is? Not my  cup of tea the Rosy Boa and I would rather have a Kenyan Sand Boa.

MARSH FROGS - PELOPHYLAX RIDIBUNDA

This is the species of the offending frogs in Kent the locals have been stating are American Bull Frogs!

Not the exact ones and these were found elsewhere and kindly provided to me for content unknowingly by a chap who is one of two that seem to be insanely jealous and gossipy about me, *sigh* some things never change!

With some bright sun these go an emerald green and get quite large but would eat quite a few things too so a no-no for your garden pond, lol.

Unless of course you only want Marsh Frogs but be warned they are deafeningly noisy!

IN SEARCH OF THE NIGHT PARROT

How intelligent this guy is, will done.

I must say I find this extremely interesting that even something as large as a parrot can still be discovered?! This had been named Pezoporus occudentalis which remind me that when listing Latin names the genus airways starts with a capital letter and the species a lower case letter. In the event if names for hybrids and colour morphs domestically produced names must start with a capital letter too and no species names so that the fact that it is not a wild specimen is obvious.

Lol.

Oh how I envy people that get to go off and entrusted to search for new species!!

I was once requested to do this with an organisation I have been at odds with for several years now, the BBC. Well more specifically someone who worked with BBC Wildlife magazine as I pointed out to him the things they can get wrong. Unfortunately I stupidly turned this down sure a woman who single handedly and systematically destroyed my life and got every office you can think if to help her do it. She then set about doing the range to our daughter.

So I did not go off to the Amazon Forest in South America write unfortunately!

Strangely enough another offer was out to me by a Japanese chap who was involved in a big way in publishing across Asia. I featured in a number if magazines I never received the copies of. I know they printed because each time I contacted anyone I got a response of "ooh I know you! You toad guy from magazine!"

There was also a reptile magazine and a....FISH magazine, lol.

I an very interested to see this Parrot and more specifically reinforces my brief that such secretive and low life animals like amphibians and reptiles (oh and fish) still must have dozens if not hundreds of species yet to be discovered?!

Now if only....?!