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Species of lizard

Estados Sucre gecko
Conservation status

Endangered  (IUCN 3.1)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Squamata
Infraorder: Gekkota
Family: Sphaerodactylidae
Genus: Gonatodes
Species: G. seigliei
Binomial name
Gonatodes seigliei
Donoso-Barros, 1966

The Estados Sucre gecko (Gonatodes seigliei) is a species of lizard in the family Sphaerodactylidae. The species is endemic to Venezuela.

Etymology

The specific name, seigliei, is in honor of Cuban-Venezuelan micropaleontologist George Alfredo Seiglie (1926–1988).

Geographic range

G. seigliei is found in the Venezuelan states of Monagas and Sucre.

Habitat

The preferred natural habitat of G. seigliei is forest, at altitudes of 800–1,300 m (2,600–4,300 ft).

Description

G. seigliei is a small gecko, characterized by granular rostral and labial scales, black vermiculations on the yellowish head and the dorsum, and the presence of a pair of small ocelli (eye spots) located very anteriorly, above the shoulders.

Reproduction

G. seigliei is oviparous.

References

  1. ^ Schargel, W.; Rivas, G. (2016). "Gonatodes seigliei". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2016: e.T178439A67510819. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-1.RLTS.T178439A67510819.en. Retrieved 18 November 2021.
  2. ^ Gonatodes seigliei at the Reptarium.cz Reptile Database
  3. Beolens B, Watkins M, Grayson M (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. ISBN 978-1-4214-0135-5. (Gonatodes seigliei, p. 240).

Further reading

  • Donoso-Barros R (1966). "Dos nuevos Gonatodes de Venezuela". Publicaciones Ocasionales, Museo Nacional de Historia Natural, Santiago de Chile 11: 1–32. (Gonatodes seigliei, new species, p. 11). (in Spanish).
  • Rivas GA, Molina CR, Ugueto GN, Barros TR, Barrio-Amorós CL, Kok PJR (2012). "Reptiles of Venezuela: an updated and commented checklist". Zootaxa 3211: 1–64.
  • Rösler H (2000). "Kommentierte Liste der rezent, subrezent und fossil bekannten Geckotaxa (Reptilia: Gekkonomorpha)". Gekkota 2: 28–153. (Gonatodes seigliei, p. 84). (in German).


Taxon identifiers
Gonatodes seigliei


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