Puerto Rican leaf-toed gecko
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Squamata
Family: Phyllodactylidae
Genus: Phyllodactylus
Species:
P. wirshingi
Binomial name
Phyllodactylus wirshingi
Kerster & H.M. Smith, 1955

The Puerto Rican leaf-toed gecko (Phyllodactylus wirshingi) is a species of lizard in the family Phyllodactylidae. The species is endemic to Puerto Rico.

Etymology

The specific name, wirshingi, is in honor of Puerto Rican amateur naturalist Juan A. "Tito" Wirshing (died 1967), who collected the holotype.[2]

Geographic range

P. wirshingi is found on the Puerto Rican island of Caja de Muertos,[3] and on the adjacent southern coast of Puerto Rico.[1]

Habitat

The preferred natural habitat of P. wirshingi is forest at altitudes from sea level to 150 m (490 ft).[1]

Reproduction

P. wirshingi is oviparous.[3]

References

  1. 1 2 3 Joglar R (2017). "Phyllodactylus wirshingi ". The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2017: e.T48442997A48443133. https://doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2017-2.RLTS.T48442997A48443133.en. Downloaded on 03 February 2019.
  2. ↑ 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. (Phyllodactylus wirshingi, p. 288).
  3. 1 2 Phyllodactylus wirshingi at the Reptarium.cz Reptile Database

Further reading

  • Kerster HW, Smith HM (1955). "The Identity of the Puerto Rican Species of Phyllodactylus (Reptilia: Squamata)". Herpetologica 11 (3): 229–232. (Phyllodactylus wirshingi, new species).
  • Rösler H (2000). "Kommentierte Liste der rezent, subrezent und fossil bekannten Geckotaxa (Reptilia: Gekkonomorpha)". Gekkota 2: 28–153. (Phyllodactylus wirshingi, p. 105). (in German).
  • Schwartz A, Henderson RW (1991). Amphibians and Reptiles of the West Indies: Descriptions, Distributions, and Natural History. Gainesville: University of Florida Press. 720 pp. ISBN 978-0813010496. (Phyllodactylus wirshingi, p. 461).
  • Schwartz A, Thomas R (1975). A Check-list of West Indian Amphibians and Reptiles. Carnegie Museum of Natural History Special Publication No. 1. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania: Carnegie Museum of Natural History. 216 pp. (Phyllodactylus wirshingi, p. 142).
  • Weiss AJ, Hedges SB (2007). "Molecular phylogeny and biogeography of the Antillean geckos Phyllodactylus wirshingi, Tarentola americana, and Hemidactylus haitianus (Reptilia, Squamata)". Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 45 (1): 409–416.



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