Lepidoblepharis miyatai

Lepidoblepharis miyatai
Conservation status
Critically Endangered  (IUCN 3.1) [1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Reptilia
Order:	Squamata
Suborder:	Gekkota
Family:	Sphaerodactylidae
Genus:	Lepidoblepharis
Species:	L. miyatai
Binomial name
Lepidoblepharis miyatai Lamar, 1985

Lepidoblepharis miyatai is a species of gecko, a lizard in the family Sphaerodactylidae. The species is endemic to Colombia.

Etymology

The specific name, miyatai, is in honor of American herpetologist Kenneth Ichiro Miyata (1951–1983). ^[2]

Geographic range

L. miyatai is found in Magdalena Department, Colombia. ^[3]

Description

The holotype of Lepidoblepharis miyatai has a snout-to-vent length (SVL) of 20 mm (0.79 in) and a broken tail. ^[3]

Habitat

Lepidoblepharis miyatai is a unique sphaerodactyline gecko which occurs in dry coastal thorn forest of the Department of Magdalena, northern Colombia (Lamar 1985).

Reproduction

L. miyatai is oviparous. ^[3]

References

1. Ortega A, Caicedo J (2015). "Lepidoblepharis miyatai (errata version published in 2017)". The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2015: e.T44579408A115388430. https://doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2015-4.RLTS.T44579408A44579411.en. Downloaded on 19 February 2019.
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. (Lepidoblepharis miyatai, p. 180).
3. Lepidoblepharis miyatai at the Reptarium.cz Reptile Database . Accessed 4 October 2015.

Further reading

• Lamar, William W. (1985). "A New Lepidoblepharis (Sauria: Gekkonidae) from the North Coast of Colombia". Herpetologica41 (2): 128–132. (Lepidoblepharis miyatai, new species).
• Montes-Correa, Andrés Camilo; Jiménez-Bolaño, Juan David; Medina-Rangel, Guido Fabián; Rivas, Gilson A.; Granda-Rodríguez, Hernán D.; Saboyá-Acosta, Liliana P; Renjifo, Juan Manuel (2018). "Geographic distribution and habitat use of Lepidoblepharis miyatai (Squamata: Sphaerodactylidae), with comments on the taxonomic status of the genus in northern Colombia". Phyllomedusa17 (1): 61–72.
• Rösler, H. (2000). "Kommentierte Liste der rezent, subrezent und fossil bekannten Geckotaxa (Reptilia: Gekkonomorpha)". Gekkota. 2: 28–153. (Lepidoblepharis miyatai, p. 90). (in German).
• Saboyá Acosta, Liliana Patricia, et al. (2020). "A survival Blueprint for the Conservation plan of the Colombian Dwarf Gecko, Lepidoblepharis miyatai in northwestern tropical dry forest in the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, Colombia". An output from the EDGE (Evolutionary Distinct & Globally Endangered) of Existence fellowship, Zoological Society of London.