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| Petrosaurus Thalassinus |
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| Blue male & black female |
PETROSAURUS THALASSINUS
(Baja Blue Rock Lizards)
These beautiful lizards occur in the San Lucan Islands in the Sea of Cortez. I’ve been working with these magnificent
San Lucan rock lizards for the last eight years. These baja blue rock lizards are quite prolific breeders and when worked
properly can produce a good size clutch per season. In 2003 I was amazed when I produced a black female from a clutch of seven
eggs. The rest of the hatchlings were the normal blue phase. After some careful inbreeding I was able to produce an entire
clutch of these melanistic babies from one of the black female’s descendants in 2007. So I called these melanistic P
thalassinus “baja black rock lizards”. I hope to produce more in the seasons to come as well as some of the normal
blue phase.
The photo shown above is of a normal blue phase male and the ’03 black female which
was two years old when the photo was taken. Amazingly enough, the parents of that black female were both a normal blue phase
although the mother was not much to look at as she showed more gray than blue so I suspect she carried the black DNA which
started all this.
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