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Coleodactylus natalensis (Natal Pigmy Gecko)

Wikipedia Abstract

Coleodactylus natalensis is a species of South American Gekkonidae (gecko). With a length of 35 millimetres, it is one of the smallest known lizards. A common name for the species is Natal Pigmy Gecko, the specific epithet refers to the location Natal, Rio Grande do Norte of its first discovery. It is endemic to the Atlantic Forest of Brazil.
View Wikipedia Record: Coleodactylus natalensis

Endangered Species

Status: Endangered
View IUCN Record: Coleodactylus natalensis

Attributes

Habitat Substrate [1]  Terrestrial
Reproductive Mode [1]  Oviparous

Ecoregions

Name Countries Ecozone Biome Species Report Climate Land
Use
Atlantic Coast restingas Brazil Neotropic Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests

Biodiversity Hotspots

Name Location Endemic Species Website
Atlantic Forest Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay, Uruguay Yes

Range Map

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Meiri, 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