how to post photos, so I shall give you a link to my online photo gallery...

most of the photos are not exactly recent, but most of the herps are still around. moltar is all grown up now, as you can see by the end of the album...

there are also a bunch of baby gecks I have that I have no photos of...and i've got some great pictures of my bearded/rankin hybrid that are not up there...if any of you can give me some suggestions on how to post those, please do!

let me know what you think...

lola

http://www.bandaco.com/gallery/Lizards

Awesome pics Lola and welcome to Herpcenter. Looks like you have a great collection. Just one question. What is Snarf

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:D I'm smiling because I have no idea whats going on!

snarf is a female flame bellied armadillo lizard

or that weird thundercats mascot...

lola

love the pics and Welcome to Herp Center....glad you could join us...Lyn

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Hi and welcome to HC, you have some gorgeous babes there, loved the pics

Those are some great pics...^_^

Nice pics, amd snarf is what Pinky from Pinky and the Brain says. lol

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Is that what the pet store labeled her as? I see them for sale under that name a lot lately. More than likely she's a regal girdled lizard (Cordylus regius, formerly Cordylus warreni regius). Regardless, she is a girdled lizard.

The armadillo lizard is actually its own type of girdled lizard (Cordylus cataphractus) and gets its name from its defensive habit of rolling in a ball and grabbing its tail. Its the only girdled lizard that can do that and therefore the only actual armadillo lizard. Pet stores like to label girdled lizards as armadillos cause people think its cool that the armadillo liz can roll in a ball, so they buy the lizard, not knowing its not really the true armadillo lizard and therefore not capable of performing the trick without breaking ribs.

There are several species of girdled lizards that resemble each other. The regal girdled is sometimes confused with Cordylus mossambicus cause they both sport the reddish markings. C. mossambicus lacks the orange on the jaw though and has more orange on the belly. Oh, and girdled lizards also go by girdle-tailed lizards

Just trying to be informative Its a lot easier to find reliable info on them when you have the scientific name and the proper common name. I have a regal girdled and a tropical girdled myself. lol, when I bought Dilly (my tropical girdled) the store had her labeled as a "forrest armadillo lizard". What's even worse is that when I bought Draggon (my regal girdled) he was in the same cage and they thought he was also a "forrest armadillo lizard"! Tropical girdleds are Cordylus tropidosternum.

Its cool to see someone on here with the same animal as me! lol, everyone has all these iguanas and bearded dragons and corn snakes. Me, I got rainbow curlytails and columbia spotted frogs and tropical girdled lizards and other guys that nobody else seems to have It's cool to be unique, but at the same time, I don't have anyone to talk to about these different herps and compare with

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Wow, great pics!

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well, yes and no. i searched my buns off trying to find out what she was when I first got her. i actually started out with a leopard gecko, then I got a tropical girdled to live with the gecko, as the pet store guys said they would be fine together. they actually DID live fine together, but don't worry, they are not anymore.

so then I wanted another lizard, and the pet store guys (who I trusted, by the way) said that snarf was an armadillo and that she would be happy living with the both of them. so I picked her up.

another thing, at the time, i had all three lizards on "repti-bark," another big mistake on my part.

so in the meantime, i did a whole lot of searching to try to find out what I really had. i could only find one website centered on breeding "snarfs" and it was dutch, or something. someone on another very popular herp website, named after a certain kind of snake, told me that it was a flame bellied armadillo and I believed them, having no proof otherwise. also, nobody else on there was saying otherwise.

then I even went on yahoo groups and posted my query with the "cordylus" forum, and nobody disagreed there, either.

probably 2 years ago or so, i went to the herp show in manchester, nh, and picked up a pair of "flame bellied armadillo lizards." i wondered why the female didn't have red on her chin. i thought that some did and some didn't.

also, snarf is a little bigger than they are, and snarf enjoys pinkies on occasion, where I have never seen the others try for one.

so now they are all living together with my 2 oscillated skinks (who I was actually wrongly told were sandfish skinks) and they all seem pretty happy. and I know what you mean about having these reptiles in particular: it's almost impossible to find any useful information on them online. it's great to know that there is someone I can bounce questions or observations off.

so, with all that in mind, do you think snarf is actually a male? i went for a while thinking that she was a male, then "learned" that she was a female, now...i don't know! how do you tell with the regal girdleds?

thanks,

lola