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Bavayia exsuccida
Conservation status
Critically Endangered  (IUCN 3.1)
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Reptilia
Order:	Squamata
Family:	Diplodactylidae
Genus:	Bavayia
Species:	B. exsuccida
Binomial name
Bavayia exsuccida Bauer, A. Whitaker & Sadlier, 1998

Bavayia exsuccida, also known as the sclerophyll bavayia, is a species of geckos endemic to North Province, New Caledonia. As of 2022, it is known from only one locality, with an extent of occurrence of 8 sq km.

The species name exsuccida derives from the Latin exsuccus, meaning "without juice" or "without sap", and refers the sclerophyll vegetation of the dry forests in which this species is found.

References

1. Sadlier, R.A., Bauer, A.M., Jourdan , H., Astrongatt, S., Deuss, M., Duval, T., Bourguet, E., McCoy, S., Bouteiller, A. & Lagrange, A.. 2021. Bavayia exsuccida. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2021: e.T29452A123246845. https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/29452/123246845. Downloaded on 06 September 2021.
2. "Bavayia exsuccida". The Reptile Database. Retrieved 2017-11-11.
3. Aaron M. Bauer; Ross A. Sadlier; Todd R. Jackman (15 November 2022). "A revision of the genus Bavayia Roux, 1913 (Squamata: Gekkota: Diplodactylidae), a non-adaptive radiation of microendemic species" (PDF). Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences, 4th series. 67 (Supplement I): 61-63. ISSN 0068-547X. Wikidata Q116173124.
4. Aaron M Bauer; Anthony Whitaker; Ross Allen Sadlier (1998). "Two New Species of the Genus Bavayia (Reptilia: Squamata: Diplodactylidae) from New Caledonia, Southwest Pacific" (PDF). Pacific Science. 52 (4): 343. hdl:10125/1589. ISSN 0030-8870. Wikidata Q116175755.

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