Barbados leaf-toed gecko

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Barbados leaf-toed gecko
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Squamata
Family: Phyllodactylidae
Genus: Phyllodactylus
Species:
P. pulcher
Binomial name
Phyllodactylus pulcher
Gray, 1830
Synonyms
  • Phyllodactylus spatulatus - Cope, 1863

The Barbados leaf-toed gecko (Phyllodactylus pulcher) is a species of gecko endemic to the Caribbean island-nation of Barbados. It is the only known leaf-toed gecko in the Lesser Antilles.

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It has a maximum snout-to-vent length of 62 mm. It has a cream ground color, with a dark line extending from its nostril, through its eye, to its shoulder. Its dorsal surface has variable markings: either brown mottling, broad brown crossbands, or longitudinal brown lines. [2]

Little is known about the species' habits and distribution. It is presumed nocturnal, arboreal, and insectivorous. It is considered rare, with few known localities, but its range has not yet been systematically studied. [3]

This once presumed extinct species was rediscovered in 2011 on the outcrop known as Culpepper Island by Damon Gerard Corrie, the founder and first president of the Barbados Herpetological Society. [4]

Notes

  1. Daltry, J.C. 2016. Phyllodactylus pulcher (errata version published in 2017). The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2016: e.T48443321A115401286. https://doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-3.RLTS.T48443321A48443325.en. Downloaded on 02 February 2019.
  2. Malhotra & Thorpe 1999 , p. 104.
  3. Powell & Henderson 2005 , p. 71.
  4. "Once presumed extinct Barbados Leaf-Toed Gecko (Phyllodactylus pulcher) re-discovered in Barbados!". 5 October 2011.

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