Two-tailed T. falconensis born

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Nazgul

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Hi,

some days ago one of females gave birth to a bunch of scorplings of which one turned out to be two-tailed. The regarding specimen has two metasomas with 4 segments each, both metasomas are sharing the first segment. The specimen feeds properly and seems to be healthy apart from the mutation. Unfortunately my camera isn´t good enough to shoot better pictures of such a small object. If the specimen will succeed in molting the second time, better pics are to follow.
 

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cute specimen and very rare :D . I wonder if this guy will use both stinger to paralyze it's prey.
 

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Very interesting Alex. What percentage of all scorplings you've produced does this constitute (approx.)?
 

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finally an heir to the two tailed throne. I hope it molts fine, with any luck it should live a normal life. Best part would be living to maturity, and possibly passing on that trait, that would be an interesting experiment.

Good luck :)
 

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Another set of pediplaps and he'd be styling. Very interesting Alex, as usual!:clap: Now we need a two tailed L.Q. that we can call the deadliest individual in the world. LOL
 

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Cool little scorp!
There's nothing wrong with the quality of your pics BTW (wish mine came out so nicely).
 

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Amazing :) Good luck raising it, I hope it reaches adulthood.

Though I doubt it could pass on this mutation, I hope it does! ;)
 

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I have only heard of two tailed Centruroides till now (3 of the cases were exilicauda) hope it makes it to adult hood :)
 

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Hi Alex,

Rare to see this I hope it reaches maturity and give no problem with molting.
 

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Lucky! I too had a M.martensii with two prosoma it has 2 pairs of pincers. but sadly it died 3days after it was born. hay....
 

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Hi,

pretty interesting indeed. All two-tailed specimens being mentioned in the paper by Sissom & Shelly had two "normal" tails with 5 segments each which branched off the 7th mesosoma segment. A specimen with an anomaly like that seems to be pretty unique.

@Oliver: approximately 0,04 - 0,05% maybe, probably even less, that´s just an estimation. Sissom & Shelley are citing a study by Brauer on 5000 specimens of E. germanus which had the result of 0,02%.

@Gigus: there are other genera reported having given birth to two-tailed specimens than just Centruroides, mostly buthids.
 

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Thats amazing! Scientists say that these kinds of things are hereditery. I hope he grows to be an adult!
 

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AWESOME!! Let us know how it goes as it molts! That is is really cool:clap: .
 

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some days ago one of females gave birth to a bunch of scorplings of which one turned out to be two-tailed. The regarding specimen has two metasomas with 4 segments each, both metasomas are sharing the first segment.
Hallo Nazgul;

Glückwünsche on your unique scorpling. :clap:

I have a few questions out of curiosity, if you care to entertain them. ¿ Is one tail predominate and the other subordinate? ¿ Does each tail act independent or do they act in unison? ¿ Is there any deformity in the secondary tail? (such as in side-show animal mutations ie a 5th leg but totally useless) :confused: :confused:

Thanks for the pictures this is the first I've ever 'seen' one of these two tailed scorpions. (well seeing one from a source who you can trust didn't doctor it up it PS) :D

Respekt, Thaedion
 

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Great new Alex ! Take care of this specimen ! :)
 

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The arcticle i read about the two tailed scorpion, said it used it's left pincer to hold down the prey. Then it used it's right tail to kill it.
 

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This is very rare........like Tityus said, I hope it will molt in a good fashion! Good luck with this strange one.....
 

Nazgul

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Hi,

the right tail seems to be the dominant one, although I didn´t have time to watch the specimen sting prey yet. Both tails can be moved independently. There are no deformities apart from the fact that both metasomas are consisting of only 4 segments.

I don´t think it´s hereditary. In Sissom & Shelley it´s mentioned Brauer came to the conclusion that such an anomaly results from splitting of the posterior part of the embryonic germ band. I haven´t read Brauer´s study yet though, I still have to receive it.
 
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