I want to see the outcome so bad it would be like the ulimate pet. Is any way in the world even like a 1 to a million chance that giant leopard geck sperm could get my blue tougue skink pregant? me and my bud want to know he has the male leopard gecko and he said how would they even breed, but all lizards breed the same way with the bitting the back or head and the same position.? thoughts please, don't be mean just curious thank you?
Hybrid Lizard! Question of the day!!!!!!!!!!!!
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No, this proposed hybrid can not and will not ever happen for multiple reasons that I will not elaborate upon unless absolutely necessary.
This time when u elaborate on it. because you no we all wana no why it couldnt happen. Copy and save in a text doc so u dont have to retype it next time someone asks.
Me personaly ide like to no why a green basalik lizard and a brown basalik lizard couldnt make a hybrid. Atleast thats what i been told on other sites.
It could never work because you are taking two entirely different Families (Scincidae and Eublepharidae) and crossing them. The two families split tens of millions of years ago so they're not closely related.
Okay, I'll give an explanation for both proposed hybrids, starting with the phylogenetic classification of each lizard:
Brown Basilisk
Order: Squamata > Suborder: Iguania > Family: Corytophanidae > Genus: Basiliscus > Species: Basiliscus vittatus
Green Basilisk
Order: Squamata > Suborder: Iguania > Family: Corytophanidae > Genus: Basiliscus > Species: Basiliscus plumifrons
Leopard Gecko
Order: Squamata > Suborder: Scleroglossa > Infraorder: Gekkota > Family: Gekkonidae > Subfamily: Eublepharinae > Genus: Eublepharis > Species: Eublepharis macularius
Blue-Tongued Skink
Order: Squamata > Suborder: Scleroglossa > Infraorder: Scincomorpha > Family: Scincidae > Subfamily: Lygosominae > Genus: Tiliqua > Species: Tiliqua spp.
As you can see, the brown basilisk and green basilisk are very closely related with their closes shared phylogenetic classification being their genus, Basiliscus, yet these two species of lizard are unable to interbreed for various reasons such as male green basilisks have a tendency to kill female brown basilisks when kept together. When it comes to the other hybrid, one can easily tell that these two lizards are very distantly related with their closest shared phylogenetic classification being the Suborder Scleroglossa. As I previously stated, it's extremely rare for even closely related lizards (and other animals, for that matter) to hybridize e.g. lizards of the same genus, so the concept of lizards of different suborders hybridizing is just wishful thinking.
I'm not sure on that one, but I think that it will come down to how different the DNA of one species is from the other and said difference will be greater the longer that these two species have been diverged from a common ancestor. They are of the same genus, so it could be worth a try if you had the resources to attempt such a feat.
Yeah, when you talk about the genetic difference between two even seemingly closely related species, it's really hard to tell how similar or different they actually are without looking at the DNA itself. Classifications of species are changing all the time and have been historically based on many different, often incorrect, criteria. Even today, there really isn't a set definition of a "species" that fits all cases. Even if the genetic similarity is there, there are also many other barriers to natural hybridization be they geographical, behavioral, anatomical and so on.