King dwarf gecko

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King dwarf gecko
Lygodactylus rex, paratype

Lygodactylus rex , paratype

Systematics
Superordinate : Scale lizards (Lepidosauria)
Order : Scale reptiles (Squamata)
without rank: Geckos (gekkota)
Family : Geckos (Gekkonidae)
Genre : Lygodactylus
Type : King dwarf gecko
Scientific name
Lygodactylus rex
Broadley , 1963

The king dwarf gecko ( Lygodactylus rex ) is the largest known member of the genus of the dwarf gecko ( Lygodactylus ). The species lives in southeastern Africa .

features

With a total length of up to 100 mm and a head-torso length of up to 50 mm, the king dwarf gecko is the largest known species of the genus of dwarf geckos. The only dwarf gecko species that are comparable in length are Lygodactylus angularis and Lygodactylus picturatus . Lygodactylus rex belongs to the Lygodactylus capensis group and has short fissures in the skin under the chin and irregular, transversely enlarged horn scales. There is an unmistakable eye spot above the shoulder. The first person describing the body specifies "blue-gray" as the basic color of the body.

Occurrence

The king dwarf gecko is only known from the Southeast African states of Malawi and Mozambique and is also only rarely found there. The type locality of the holotype , an adult male, discovered on December 23, 1962 by DG Broadley and L. Balarin , is in Malawi, at the foot of the Mulanje Mountains , about 750 meters above sea level, on the site of the Lujeri tea plantation.

literature

  • Bill Branch, Peter G. Ryan: Additions to the Mozambique Herpetofauna: two new lizards from the Namuli Massif. In: Herpetological Review. Vol. 32, No. 4, 2001, ISSN  0018-084X , pp. 281-282.
  • Donald G. Broadley: Three new lizards from South Nyasaland and Tete. In: Annals and Magazine of Natural History. Series 13, Vol. 6, Article 65, 1963, pp. 285-288, doi : 10.1080 / 00222936308651355 .
  • Herbert Rösler: Annotated list of the recently, subordinate and fossil known Geckotaxa (Reptilia: Gekkonomorpha). In: Gekkota. Vol. 2, 2000, ZDB -ID 2080442-8 , pp. 28-153.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Lygodactylus rex. Retrieved July 6, 2020 .