The Barrington leaf-toed gecko (''Phyllodactylus barringtonensis'') is a
species
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of
lizard
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in the
family
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Phyllodactylidae
The Phyllodactylidae are a family of geckos (Gekkota) consisting of 163 species in 10 genera, distributed throughout the New World, North Africa, Europe and the Middle East. The family was first delineated based on a molecular phylogenetic analys ...
. The species is
endemic
Endemism is the state of a species being found only in a single defined geographic location, such as an island, state, nation, country or other defined zone; organisms that are indigenous to a place are not endemic to it if they are also foun ...
to
Santa Fe Island
Santa Fe Island (), also known as Barrington Island, is a small island of which lies in the middle of the Galápagos Archipelago in Ecuador. Visitor access is by a wet landing in Barrington Bay on the northeastern side of the island.
Names
...
in the
Galapagos.
Etymology
The
specific name Specific name may refer to:
* in Database management systems, a system-assigned name that is unique within a particular database
In taxonomy, either of these two meanings, each with its own set of rules:
* Specific name (botany), the two-part (bino ...
, ''barringtonensis'', refers to Barrington Island, which is an alternate name for Santa Fe Island.
Habitat
The preferred natural
habitat
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of ''P. barringtonensis'' is dry
shrubland
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, at altitudes from sea level to .
Description
The
holotype
A holotype (Latin: ''holotypus'') is a single physical example (or illustration) of an organism used when the species (or lower-ranked taxon) was formally described. It is either the single such physical example (or illustration) or one of s ...
of ''P. barringtonensis'' has a
snout-to-vent length (SVL) of .
[ Van Denburgh (1912).]
Reproduction
''P. barringtonensis'' is
oviparous
Oviparous animals are animals that reproduce by depositing fertilized zygotes outside the body (i.e., by laying or spawning) in metabolically independent incubation organs known as eggs, which nurture the embryo into moving offsprings kno ...
.
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References
Further reading
* Rösler H (2000). "''Kommentierte Liste der rezent, subrezent und fossil bekkanten Geckotaxa (Reptilia: Gekkonomorpha)''". ''Gekkota'' 2: 28–153. (''Phyllodactylus barringtonensis'', p. 103). (in German).
* Torres-Carvajal O, Rodríguez-Guerra A, Chaves JA (2016). "Present diversity of Galápagos leaf-toed geckos (Phyllodactylidae: ''Phyllodactylus'') stems from three independent colonization events". ''Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution'' 103: 1–5.
* Van Denburgh J (1912). "Expedition of the California Academy of Sciences to the Galapagos Islands 1905–1906. VI. The Geckos of the Galapagos Archipelago". ''Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences, Fourth Series'' 1: 405–430. (''Phyllodactylus barringtonensis'', new species, pp. 418–420).
Phyllodactylus
Endemic reptiles of the Galápagos Islands
Reptiles of Ecuador
Reptiles described in 1912
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