Barbour's clawed gecko
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Squamata
Family: Sphaerodactylidae
Genus: Pseudogonatodes
Species:
P. barbouri
Binomial name
Pseudogonatodes barbouri
(Noble, 1921)
Synonyms[2]
  • Lepidoblepharis barbouri
    Noble, 1921
  • Pseudogonatodes barbouri
    — Parker, 1926

Barbour's clawed gecko (Pseudogonatodes barbouri) is a species of lizard in the family Sphaerodactylidae. The species is endemic to Peru.

Etymology

The specific name, barbouri, is in honor of American herpetologist Thomas Barbour.[3]

Geographic range

P. barbouri is found in northwestern Peru.[2]

Habitat

The preferred natural habitat of P. barbouri is forest.[1]

Reproduction

P. barbouri is oviparous.[2]

References

  1. 1 2 Perez J, Lehr E (2017). "Pseudogonatodes barbouri ". The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2017: e.T44579460A44579466. https://doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2017-2.RLTS.T44579460A44579466.en. Downloaded on 24 February 2019.
  2. 1 2 3 Pseudogonatodes barbouri at the Reptarium.cz Reptile Database. Accessed 24 February 2019.
  3. ↑ Beolens B, Watkins M, Grayson M (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. ISBN 978-1-4214-0135-5. (Pseudogonatodes barbouri, p. 16).

Further reading

  • Bauer AM, Beach-Mehrotra M, Bermudez Y, Clark GE, Daza JD, Glynne E, Hagyari D, Harnden JM, Holovacs N, Kanasiro A, Lofthus AJ, Pierce ZW, Aaliya R, Syed S, Vallejo-Pareja MC, Walker BA, Willett J (2018). "The Tiny Skull of the Peruvian Gecko Pseudogonatodes barbouri (Gekkota: Sphaerodactylidae) Obtained via a Divide-And-Conquer Approach to Morphological Data Acquisition". South American Journal of Herpetology 13 (2): 102–116.
  • Koch C, Venegas PJ, Santa Cruz R, Böhme W (2018). "Annotated checklist and key to the species of amphibians and reptiles inhabiting the northern Peruvian dry forest along the Andean valley of the Marañón River and its tributaries". Zootaxa 4385 (1): 1–101.
  • Noble GK (1921). "Some New Lizards from Northwestern Peru". Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences 29: 133–139. (Lepidoblepharis barbouri, new species, p. 133).
  • Parker HW (1926). "The Neotropical Lizards of the Genera Lepidoblepharis, Pseudogonatodes, Lathrogecko, and Sphærodactylus, with the Description of a new Genus". Annals and Magazine of Natural History, Ninth Series 17: 291–301. (Pseudogonatodes barbouri, new combination, p. 298).
  • Rösler H (2000). "Kommentierte Liste der rezent, subrezent und fossil bekannten Geckotaxa (Reptilia: Gekkonomorpha)". Gekkota 2: 28–153. (Pseudogonatodes barbouri, p. 106). (in German).



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