Barbour's clawed gecko (''Pseudogonatodes barbouri'') is a
species
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of
lizard
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in the
family
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Sphaerodactylidae
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. 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
Peru
Peru, officially the Republic of Peru, is a country in western South America. It is bordered in the north by Ecuador and Colombia, in the east by Brazil, in the southeast by Bolivia, in the south by Chile, and in the south and west by the Pac ...
.
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 ...
, ''barbouri'', is in honor of American herpetologist
Thomas Barbour
Thomas Barbour (August 19, 1884 – January 8, 1946) was an American herpetologist. He was the first president of the Dexter School in 1926. From 1927 until 1946, he was director of the Harvard Museum of Comparative Zoology (MCZ) founded in 1 ...
.
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Grayson may refer to:
Places Canada
* Grayson, Saskatchewan
* Rural Municipality of Grayson No. 184, Saskatchewan
United States
* Grayson, California
* Grayson, Georgia
** Grayson High School
* Grayson, Kentucky
* Grayson, Louisiana
* Gray ...
(2011). ''The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles''. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. . (''Pseudogonatodes barbouri'', p. 16).
Geographic range
''P. barbouri'' is found in northwestern Peru.
Habitat
The preferred natural
habitat
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of ''P. barbouri'' is
forest
A forest is an ecosystem characterized by a dense ecological community, community of trees. Hundreds of definitions of forest are used throughout the world, incorporating factors such as tree density, tree height, land use, legal standing, ...
.
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Reproduction
''P. barbouri'' 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
* Bauer AM, Beach-Mehrotra M, Bermudez Y, Clark GE, Daza JD, Glynne E, Hagyari D, Harnden JM, Holovacs N, Kanasiro A, Lofthus AJ, Pierce ZW, Aaliya R, Syed S, Vallejo-Pareja MC, Walker BA, Willett J (2018). "The Tiny Skull of the Peruvian Gecko ''Pseudogonatodes barbouri'' (Gekkota: Sphaerodactylidae) Obtained via a Divide-And-Conquer Approach to Morphological Data Acquisition". ''South American Journal of Herpetology'' 13 (2): 102–116.
* Koch C, Venegas PJ, Santa Cruz R, Böhme W (2018). "Annotated checklist and key to the species of amphibians and reptiles inhabiting the northern Peruvian dry forest along the Andean valley of the Marañón River and its tributaries". ''Zootaxa'' 4385 (1): 1–101.
* Noble GK (1921). "Some New Lizards from Northwestern Peru". ''Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences'' 29: 133–139. (''Lepidoblepharis barbouri'', new species, p. 133).
* Parker HW (1926). "The Neotropical Lizards of the Genera ''Lepidoblepharis, Pseudogonatodes, Lathrogecko'', and ''Sphærodactylus'', with the Description of a new Genus". ''Annals and Magazine of Natural History, Ninth Series'' 17: 291–301. (''Pseudogonatodes barbouri'', new combination, p. 298).
* Rösler H (2000). "''Kommentierte Liste der rezent, subrezent und fossil bekannten Geckotaxa (Reptilia: Gekkonomorpha)''". ''Gekkota'' 2: 28–153. (''Pseudogonatodes barbouri'', p. 106). (in German).
Pseudogonatodes
Reptiles of Peru
Endemic fauna of Peru
Taxa named by Gladwyn Kingsley Noble
Reptiles described in 1921
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