The Registry Opens, the First Standard Adopted

A note on the publishing program.

The Reptile Club has, until this season, kept its work principally to the records it issues. The opening of the public Registry of pedigrees, in this same season, occasions the launch of a publishing program by which the Club may set out its reasoning, its definitions, and its findings in a form that is durable, public, and revisable.

The program has three components. The Bulletin, which you are presently reading, is the periodical: short notices, editorial reflection, the season ahead. The Standards are the authoritative documents on the language and practice of pedigree. They are published as adopted, supersede prior issues on revision, and remain on the public record. The Featured Species is an essay form, a long article on a single species in the Club's scope, refreshed annually.

Each of these is intended to outlast the platforms that carry it.

— The Editor

The public Registry of pedigrees is now open.

From this season, any breeder may register an animal with the Reptile Club and obtain a Certificate of Pedigree. Registration is open through the HatchLog application, the working tool the Club provides to breeders for season-keeping. Each registration produces a record in the public Registry under a unique RC code, by which the certificate may be verified at no charge by any party, with or without an account.

Verification is, and will remain, free. The Registry stands on the principle that a pedigree is only as credible as the institution that holds it, and that credibility depends in part on the absence of barriers to verification.

Open the Registry at reptileclub.com/registry.

Pedigree Terms, the first Club Standard, has been adopted.

The Club has adopted Pedigree Terms and Lineage Documentation, the first Standard published by the Club. The Standard establishes the vocabulary by which the Registry records and reports lineage, defines the language printed on every Certificate of Pedigree, and sets the meaning of the terms used by every Standard published thereafter.

Several further Standards are in preparation, including those on hatch and provenance records, the identification of registered animals, transfers of ownership, naming conventions, refusals and corrections, hybrid registration, and the morph terms recognized for Correlophus ciliatus. Adoption of the in-preparation Standards is anticipated through 2026 and 2027 as the Club completes its consultation.

The full library of Standards, both adopted and in preparation, is published at reptileclub.com/standards.

HatchLog enters public beta.

HatchLog, the Club's working tool for keepers, is presently in public beta on iOS and Android. The application is the means by which records enter the Registry: a breeder maintains the season in HatchLog, recording pairings, lay dates, clutches, and hatchlings, and at the moment a registration is issued, the Registry assembles the pedigree from the records on file.

The application is published at no charge on the Apple App Store and Google Play, with supplementary tools available through subscription for breeders running larger collections. Particulars on the registration flow and the standing of HatchLog within the Registry are set out at reptileclub.com/registry.

In the season ahead in Correlophus ciliatus.

The crested gecko, the inaugural Featured Species, enters its main breeding season through the Northern spring and summer. Pairings made now produce clutches into late autumn; eggs laid through the spring incubate roughly sixty to ninety days. Producers concerned with new combinations of the established trait set will find the season ahead the principal opportunity of the year.

The Club expects the morph Standard for this species to enter formal preparation through the season, with adoption anticipated in 2027.

The Featured Species article on Correlophus ciliatus, including its rediscovery in 1994, present range, and the genetic landscape known to producers, is published at reptileclub.com/featured/crested-gecko.