Dutch leaf-toed gecko
| Dutch leaf-toed gecko | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Order: | Squamata |
| Family: | Phyllodactylidae |
| Genus: | Phyllodactylus |
| Species: | P. martini
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| Binomial name | |
| Phyllodactylus martini Lidth de Jeude, 1887
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The Dutch leaf-toed gecko (Phyllodactylus martini) is a species of lizard in the family Phyllodactylidae. The species is endemic to the Caribbean.
Etymology
[edit]The specific name, martini, is in honor of German geologist Johann Karl Ludwig Martin.[2]
Geographic range
[edit]P. martini is found on Aruba, Bonaire, Curaçao, many of the Leeward Islands, and Puerto Rico.[3]
Reproduction
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Van Buurt G (2016). "Phyllodactylus martini " (errata version published in 2017). The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2016: e.T48443813A115401573. https://doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-3.RLTS.T48443813A48443822.en. Downloaded on 02 February 2019.
- ^ 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. (Phyllodactylus martini, p. 170).
- ^ a b Phyllodactylus martini at the Reptarium.cz Reptile Database
Further reading
[edit]- Lidth de Jeude TW (1887). "On a collection of Reptiles and Fishes from the West-Indies". Notes from the Leyden Museum 9: 129–139. (Phyllodactylus martini, new species, pp. 130-131 + Plate II, figures 2 & 3).
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