Cameroon dwarf gecko

Cameroon dwarf gecko
Conservation status
Least Concern  (IUCN 3.1) [1]
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Reptilia
Order:	Squamata
Infraorder:	Gekkota
Family:	Gekkonidae
Genus:	Lygodactylus
Species:	L. conraui
Binomial name
Lygodactylus conraui Tornier, 1902
Synonyms
Lygodacutylus [sic] strongi Barbour & Loveridge, 1927

The Cameroon dwarf gecko (Lygodactylus conraui), also known commonly as Conrau's dwarf gecko, is a species of lizard in the family Gekkonidae. This small gecko is found in forests, plantations and gardens in West Africa and Central Africa. ^[1]

Etymology

The specific name, conraui, is in honor of late 19th-century German collector Gustav Conrau. ^[2]

Geographic range

Lygodactylus conraui is found from Sierra Leone to Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea, and Gabon. ^{[3] [4] [5]}

Reproduction

Lygodactlyus conraui is oviparous. ^[4]

Behaviour

The species is known to exhibit anthropochory (taking advantage of human activity) and to use edificarian (human) habitat. ^[6]

Lygodactylus conraui, Godomey, Benin

References

1. Luiselli, L.; Rödel, M.-O.; Penner, J. (2021). "Lygodactylus conraui ". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species . 2021: e.T203848A2771836. doi: 10.2305/IUCN.UK.2021-2.RLTS.T203848A2771836.en . Retrieved 10 September 2024.
2. 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 conraui, p. 58).
3. Trape, Jean-François; Trape, Sébastien; Chirio, Laurent (2012). Lézards, crocodiles et tortues d'Afrique occidentale et du Sahara[Lizards, crocodiles and turtles of West Africa and the Sahara] (in French). Marseille: IRD Éditions. ISBN   978-2-7099-1726-1.
4. Lygodactylus conraui at the Reptarium.cz Reptile Database
5. Pauwels, Olivier S.G.; Carlino, Piero; Chirio, Laurent; Albert, Jean-Louis (2016). "Miscellanea Herpetologica Gabonica IV" (PDF). Bulletin of the Chicago Herpetological Society. 51 (5): 73–79. Retrieved 2018-09-04.
6. Manners, Guy R.; Georgen, Georg. "Lygodactylus conraui (Cameroon or Conrau's dwarf gecko): Use of edificarian habitat and anthropochory in Benin". The Herpetological Bulletin. 131: 32–33.

Further reading

• Loveridge A (1947). "Revision of the African Lizards of the Family Gekkonidae". Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoölogy at Harvard College98: 1–469. (Lygodactylus conraui, pp. 220–221).
• Rösler H (1902). "Kommentierte Liste der rezent, subrezent und fossil bekannten Geckotaxa (Reptilia: Gekkonomorpha)". Gekkota2: 28–153. (Lygodactylus conraui, p. 92). (in German).
• Tornier G (1902). "Die Crocodile, Schildkröten und Eidechsen in Kamerun [The Crocodilians, Turtles and Lizards in Cameroon]". Zoologische Jahrbücher. Abteilung für Systematik, Geographie und Biologie der Tiere15 (6): 663–677 + Plate 35. (Lygodactylus conraui, new species, pp. 670–671 + Plate 35, figure 3). (in German).