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Calodactylodes illingworthorum (Illingworth's Gecko)

Synonyms: Calodactylodes illingworthi

Wikipedia Abstract

The Sri Lankan golden gecko or Illingworth's golden gecko,(Calodactylodes illingworthorum ) is a species of gecko known only from the island of Sri Lanka.
View Wikipedia Record: Calodactylodes illingworthorum

Endangered Species

Status: Vulnerable
View IUCN Record: Calodactylodes illingworthorum

Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  9 grams
Female Weight [1]  9 grams
Egg Length [1]  0.551 inches (14 mm)
Egg Width [1]  0.472 inches (12 mm)
Reproductive Mode [2]  Oviparous
Snout to Vent Length [1]  3.15 inches (8 cm)
Habitat Substrate [2]  Saxicolous

Ecoregions

Name Countries Ecozone Biome Species Report Climate Land
Use
Sri Lanka dry-zone dry evergreen forests Sri Lanka Indo-Malayan Tropical and Subtropical Dry Broadleaf Forests

Biodiversity Hotspots

Name Location Endemic Species Website
Western Ghats and Sri Lanka India, Sri Lanka Yes

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Nathan P. Myhrvold, Elita Baldridge, Benjamin Chan, Dhileep Sivam, Daniel L. Freeman, and S. K. Morgan Ernest. 2015. An amniote life-history database to perform comparative analyses with birds, mammals, and reptiles. Ecology 96:3109
♦ 2Meiri, Shai (2019), Data from: Traits of lizards of the world: variation around a successful evolutionary design, Dryad, Dataset, https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.f6t39kj
Ecoregions provided by World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF). WildFinder: Online database of species distributions, ver. 01.06 Wildfinder Database
Biodiversity Hotspots provided by Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund
Abstract provided by DBpedia licensed under a Creative Commons License
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0