Lizards are asexual

[Vunch]

I recently read that lizards are asexual? Does anyone know of a list that
states the sexuality of living things?

Fwelfare

[Bill Hudson]

Lizards in general are sexual.

There are 1 or 2 oddball species that are asexual, including the
whiptail lizard of the american southwest, one subspecies of which
reproduces through parthanogenesis.

--
Bill

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[*Hemidactylus*]

Bill Hudson <bi...@rmp.com> wrote in message news:<9r2432$a8s$1...@darwin.ediacara.org>...

> Vunch wrote:
> >
> > I recently read that lizards are asexual? Does anyone know of a list that
> > states the sexuality of living things?
> >
> > Fwelfare
> >
>
> Lizards in general are sexual.
>
> There are 1 or 2 oddball species that are asexual, including the
> whiptail lizard of the american southwest, one subspecies of which
> reproduces through parthanogenesis.
>

Yet the species *Hemidactylus garnoti* (Indo-Pacific gecko) itself is
parthenogenic.

Oddball? Depends on what you mean by "oddball". Cool? Yes, though they
are invading Florida.

I wonder if their peculiar reproductive habits give them any advantage
as invaders versus the sexual species of geckos invading Florida such
as the Mediterranean gecko (*H. turcicus*).

(insert discussion about Muller's ratchet here)