Comoro ground gecko

Comoro ground gecko
Conservation status
	; Vulnerable (IUCN 3.1)
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Reptilia
Order:	Squamata
Family:	Gekkonidae
Genus:	Paroedura
Species:	P. sanctijohannis
Binomial name
	Paroedura sanctijohannis; Günther, 1879
Synonyms
	Paroedura sancti johannis ; Günther, 1879; Phyllodactylus sancti-johannis ; — Boulenger, 1885; Phyllodactylus sanctijohannis ; — Wermuth, 1965; Paroedura sanctijohannis ; — Kluge, 1993;

The Comoro ground gecko (Paroedura sanctijohannis) is a species of lizard in the family Gekkonidae. The species is endemic to the Comoros.^[2]

Etymology

The specific name, sanctijohannis, refers to the island formerly called Johanna, now called Anjouan.^[3]

The preferred natural habitat of P. sanctijohannis is forest, at altitudes of 7–1,042 m (23–3,419 ft).^[1]

P. sanctijohannis is oviparous.^[2]

^ ^a ^b Hawlitschek, O., Augros, S. & Webster, K.C. (2021). "Paroedura sanctijohannis". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2021: e.T189231040A189231133. Retrieved 19 November 2021.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
^ ^a ^b ^c Paroedura sanctijohannis at the Reptarium.cz Reptile Database
^ Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. ISBN 978-1-4214-0135-5. (Paroedura sanctijohannis, p. 254).

Boulenger GA (1885). Catalogue of the Lizards in the British Museum (Natural History). Second Edition. Volume I. Geckonidæ ... London: Trustees of the British Museum (Natural History). (Taylor and Francis, printers). xii + 436 pp. + Plates I–XXXII. (Phyllodactylus sancti-johannis, p. 86 + Plate VII, figures 1, 1a).
Günther A (1879). "On Mammals and Reptiles from Johanna, Comoro Islands". Annals and Magazine of Natural History, Fifth Series 3: 215–219. (Parœdura sancti johannis, new species, p. 218).
Hawlitschek O, Glaw F (2012). "The complex colonization history of nocturnal geckos (Paroedura) in the Comoros Archipelago". Zoologica Scripta 42 (2): 135–150.
Rösler H (2000). "Kommentierte Liste der rezent, subrezent und fossil bekannten Geckotaxa (Reptilia: Gekkonomorpha)". Gekkota 2: 28–153. (Paroedura sanctijohannis, p. 101). (in German).

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