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Dutch leaf-toed gecko

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Species of lizard

Dutch leaf-toed gecko
Conservation status

Least Concern  (IUCN 3.1)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Squamata
Family: Phyllodactylidae
Genus: Phyllodactylus
Species: P. martini
Binomial name
Phyllodactylus martini
Lidth de Jeude, 1887

The Dutch leaf-toed gecko (Phyllodactylus martini) is a species of lizard in the family Phyllodactylidae. The species is endemic to the Caribbean.

Etymology

The specific name, martini, is in honor of German geologist Johann Karl Ludwig Martin.

Geographic range

P. martini is found on Aruba, Bonaire, Curaçao, many of the Leeward Islands, and Puerto Rico.

Reproduction

P. martini is oviparous.

References

  1. Van Buurt G (2016). "Phyllodactylus martini " (errata version published in 2017). The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2016: e.T48443813A115401573. https://doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-3.RLTS.T48443813A48443822.en. Downloaded on 02 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. (Phyllodactylus martini, p. 170).
  3. ^ Phyllodactylus martini at the Reptarium.cz Reptile Database

Further reading

  • Lidth de Jeude TW (1887). "On a collection of Reptiles and Fishes from the West-Indies". Notes from the Leyden Museum 9: 129–139. (Phyllodactylus martini, new species, pp. 130-131 + Plate II, figures 2 & 3).
Taxon identifiers
Phyllodactylus martini


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