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(Redirected from Luperosaurus brooksii) Species of lizard

Brooks's wolf gecko
Conservation status

Near Threatened  (IUCN 3.1)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Squamata
Family: Gekkonidae
Genus: Luperosaurus
Species: L. brooksii
Binomial name
Luperosaurus brooksii
(Boulenger, 1920)
Synonyms
  • Gecko brooksii
    Boulenger, 1920
  • Gekko (Lomatodactylus) brooksii
    — Wood et al., 2020

Brooks's wolf gecko (Luperosaurus brooksii) is a species of lizard in the family Gekkonidae. The species is endemic to Sumatra.

Etymology

The specific name, brooksii, is in honor of British metallurgical chemist Cecil Joslin Brooks, who collected natural history specimens in Borneo and Sumatra.

Habitat

The preferred natural habitat of L. brooksii is forest.

Behavior

L. brooksii is arboreal, living in the forest canopy.

Reproduction

L. brooksii is oviparous.

References

  1. ^ Iskandar D, Riyanto A, Kamsi M, Amarasinghe A (2021). "Luperosaurus brooksii ". The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2021: https://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2021-3.RLTS.T101950492A101950503.en. Accessed on 10 April 2022.
  2. ^ Gekko brooksii at the Reptarium.cz Reptile Database
  3. Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. ISBN 978-1-4214-0135-5. ("Luperosaurus brooksi ", p. 40).

Further reading

  • Boulenger GA (1920). "Descriptions of a new Gecko and a new Snake from Sumatra". Annals and Magazine of Natural History, Ninth Series 5: 281–283. (Gecko brooksii, new species, pp. 281–282).
  • Russell AP (1979). "A New Species of Luperosaurus (Gekkonidae) with Comments on the Genus". Herpetologica 35 (3): 282–288. (Luperosaurus brooksii, new combination).
  • Wood, Perry L. Jr.; Guo, Xianguang; Travers, Scott L.; Su, Yong-Chao; Olson, Karen V.; Bauer, Aaron M.; Grismer, L. Lee; Siler, Cameron D.; Moyle, Robert G.; Andersen, Michael J.; Brown, Rafe M. (2020). "Parachute geckos free fall into synonymy: Gekko phylogeny, and a new subgeneric classification, inferred from thousands of ultraconserved elements". Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 146: 106731. (corrigendum: Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 164: 107255.


Taxon identifiers
Luperosaurus brooksii


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