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(Redirected from Lygodactylus klugei) Species of lizard

Kluge's dwarf gecko
Conservation status

Least Concern  (IUCN 3.1)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Squamata
Family: Gekkonidae
Genus: Lygodactylus
Species: L. klugei
Binomial name
Lygodactylus klugei
(H.M. Smith, R.L. Martin & Swain, 1977)
Synonyms
  • Vanzoia klugei
    H.M. Smith, R.L. Martin & Swain, 1977
  • Lygodactylus klugei
    Bons & Pasteur, 1977

Kluge's dwarf gecko (Lygodactylus klugei) is a species of gecko, a lizard in the family Gekkonidae. The species is native to northeastern Brazil.

Etymology

The specific name, klugei, is in honor of American herpetologist Arnold G. Kluge.

Geographic range

L. klugei is found in the Brazilian States of Bahia, Ceará, Piauí, and Rio Grande do Norte.

Habitat

The preferred natural habitat of L. klugei is savanna.

Diet

L. klugei mainly preys upon insects and spiders, but it also eats nectar.

Reproduction

L. klugei is oviparous.

References

  1. ^ Colli GR et al. (25 authors) (2019). "Lygodactylus klugei ". The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2019: e.T110212120A110212143. https://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2019-1.RLTS.T110212120A110212143.pt. Downloaded on 28 June 2020.
  2. ^ Lygodactylus klugei at the Reptarium.cz Reptile Database
  3. Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. ISBN 978-1-4214-0135-5. (Lygodactylus klugei, p. 143).
  4. Aximov, Izar; Felix, Edesio (2017). "Lygodactylus klugei (Kluge's Dwarf Gecko). Diet". Herpetological Review 48 (2): 439.

Further reading

  • Bons, Jacques; Pasteur, Georges (1977). "Solution histologique à un problème de taxinomie herpétologique interessant les rapports paléobiologiques de l'Amerique du Sud e de l'Afrique ". Comptes rendus de l'Académie des sciences, Paris 284 (D): 2547–2550. (Lygodactylus klugei, new combination). (in French).
  • Lanna, Flávia M; Gehara, Marcelo; Werneck, Fernanda de Pinho; da Fonseca, Emanuel Masiero; Colli, Guarino Rinaldi; Sites, Jack W., Jr.; Rodrigues, Miguel Trefaut; Garda, Adrian Antonio (2019). "Dwarf geckos and giant rivers: the role of the São Francisco River in the evolution of Lygodactylus klugei (Squamata: Gekkonidae) in the semi-arid Caatinga of north-eastern Brazil". Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 129 (1): 88–98.
  • Rösler H (2000). "Kommentierte Liste der rezent, subrezent und fossil bekannten Geckotaxa (Reptilia: Gekkonomorpha)". Gekkota 2: 28–153. (Vanzoi klugei, p. 120). (in German).
  • Smith, Hobart M.; Martin, Robert L.; Swain, Tom A. (1977). "A new genus and two new species of South American geckos (Reptilia: Lacertilia)". Papéis Avulsos de Zoologia, Museu de Zoologia da Universidade de São Paulo 30: 195–213. (Vanzoia klugei, new species, p. 196).


Taxon identifiers
Lygodactylus klugei


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