Gekko shibatai

Gekko shibatai
Conservation status
	; Vulnerable (IUCN 3.1)
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Reptilia
Order:	Squamata
Family:	Gekkonidae
Genus:	Gekko
Species:	G. shibatai
Binomial name
	Gekko shibatai; Toda, Sengoku, Hikida & Ota, 2008
Synonyms
	Gekko shibatai ; Toda, Sengoku, Hikida & Ota, 2008; Gekko (Japonigekko) shibatai ; — Wood et al., 2019;

Gekko shibatai is a species of gecko, a lizard in the family Gekkonidae. The species is endemic to the Ryukyu Islands.^[2]

Etymology

The specific name, shibatai, is in honor of Japanese herpetologist Yasuhiko Shibata.^[3]

G. shibatai is found in the Tokara Group of the Ryukyu Islands. The type locality is Takarajima Island.^[2]

The preferred natural habitat of G. shibatai, is forest.^[1]

G. shibatai lacks distinct preanal pores even in the adult male.^[4]

G. shibatai is oviparous.^[2]

^ ^a ^b Kidera, N.; Ota, H. (2017). "Gekko shibatai". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2017: e.T96251742A96251746. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2017-3.RLTS.T96251742A96251746.en. Retrieved 19 November 2021.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d Gekko shibatai at the Reptarium.cz Reptile Database
^ Beolens B, Watkins M, Grayson M (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore, Maryland: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. ISBN 978-1-4214-0135-5. (Gekko shibatai, p. 242).
^ Toda et al. (2008).

Shibaike Y, Takahashi Y, Arikura I, Iiizumi R, Kitakawa S, Sakai M, Imaoka C, Shiro H, Tanaka H, Akakubo N, Nakano M, Ohne K, Kubota S, Kohno S, Ota H (2009). "Chromosome Evolution in the Lizard Genus Gekko (Gekkonidae, Squamata, Reptilia) in the East Asian Islands". Cytogenetic and Genome Research 127: 182–190.
Toda M, Sengoku S, Hikida T, Ota H (2008). "Description of Two New Species of the Genus Gekko (Squamata: Gekkonidae) from the Tokara and Amami Island Groups in the Ryukyu Archipelago, Japan". Copeia 2008 (2): 452–466. (Gekko shibatai, new species).

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