Hemidactylus palaichthus Kluge 1969
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Hemidactylus palaichthus Kluge, 1969
Type-locality. Kurupukari, Guyana.
Pertinent taxonomic references. Kluge (1969), Hoogmoed (1973), Vanzolini (1978b), Cunha (1981), O’Shea (1989), Ávila-Pires (1995), Carranza & Arnold (2006), Arnold et al. (2008), Gamble et al. (2011b).
Distribution and habitat. Hemidactylus palaichthus is endemic to northern Amazonia, occurring in Brazil, Guyana, Venezuela, Colombia, Trinidad and Tobago, and St. Lucia Island (Fig. 2). Hoogmoed (1973) also reported it from coastal Suriname. In Brazil it is known from the state of Amazonas, along the Negro River and Madeira– Purus interfluvium, and in open vegetation (lavrado) areas of the state of Roraima. Hemidactylus palaichthus is scansorial and nocturnal, inhabits primary and secondary forests, and perianthropic areas, where it is found on tree trunks, on rock surfaces, on isolated vegetation in pastures, in crevices of walls of man-made structures, and on fences of farms—Vanzolini 1978b; Cunha 1981; O’Shea 1989; Vitt & Zani 1998; Molina et al. 2004).
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Gekkonidae
- Genus
- Hemidactylus
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Squamata
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Scientific name authorship
- Kluge
- Species
- palaichthus
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Hemidactylus palaichthus Kluge, 1969 sec. Ribeiro-Júnior, 2015
References
- Kluge, A. G. (1969) The evolution and geographical origin of the New World Hemidactylus mabouia-brookii complex (Gekkonidae, Sauria). Miscellaneous Publications of the Museum of Zoology of the University of Michigan, 138, 1 - 78.
- Hoogmoed, M. S. (1973) Notes on the herpetofauna of Surinam. IV. The lizards and amphisbaenians of Surinam. Biogeographica, 4, 1 - 419.
- Vanzolini, P. E. (1978 b) On South American Hemidactylus (Sauria, Gekkonidae). Papeis Avulsos de Zoologia, 31, 307 - 343.
- Cunha, O. R. (1981) Lacertilios da Amazonia. VII - Lagartos da regiao norte do Territorio Federal de Roraima, Brasil. (Lacertilia; Gekkonidae, Iguanidae, Scincidae e Teiidae). Boletim do Museu Paraense Emilio Goeldi, Zoologia, 107, 1 - 25.
- O'Shea, M. (1989) The herpetofauna of Ilha de Maraca, state of Roraima, northern Brazil. Proceedings of the 1988 U. K. Herpetological Societies, Symposium on captive breeding, Reptiles, 1989, 51 - 72.
- Avila-Pires, T. C. S. (1995) Lizards of Brazilian Amazonia (Reptilia: Squamata). Zoologische Verhandelingen, 299, 1 - 706.
- Carranza, S. & Arnold, E. N. (2006) Systematics, biogeography, and evolution of Hemidactylus geckos (Reptilia: Gekkonidae) elucidated using mitochondrial DNA sequences. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 38, 531 - 545. http: // dx. doi. org / 10.1016 / j. ympev. 2005.07.012
- Arnold, E. N., Vasconcelos, R., Harris, D. J., Mateo, J. A. & Carranza, S. (2008) Systematics, biogeography and evolution of the endemic Hemidactylus geckos (Reptilia, Squamata, Gekkonidae) of the Cape Verde Islands: based on morphology and mitochondrial and nuclear DNA sequences. Zoologica Scripta, 37, 619 - 636. http: // dx. doi. org / 10.1111 / j. 1463 - 6409.2008.00351. x
- Gamble, T., Bauer, A. M., Colli, G. R., Greenbaum, E., Jackman, T. R., Vitt, L. J. & Simons, A. M. (2011 b) Coming to America: multiple origins of the New World geckos. Journal of Evolutionary Biology, 24, 231 - 244. http: // dx. doi. org / 10.1111 / j. 1420 - 9101.2010.02184. x
- Vitt, L. J. & Zani, P. A. (1998) Ecological relationship among sympatric lizards in a transitional forest in the northern Amazon of Brazil. Journal of Tropical Ecology, 14, 63 - 86. http: // dx. doi. org / 10.1017 / S 0266467498000066