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Ailuronyx seychellensis (Seychelles Bronze Gecko)

Synonyms: Platydactylus seychellensis

Wikipedia Abstract

The Seychelles bronze gecko (Ailuronyx seychellensis) is a species of lizard in the Gekkonidae family endemic to Seychelles. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical dry forests, subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests, plantations, rural gardens, and heavily degraded former forests.It is threatened by habitat loss.
View Wikipedia Record: Ailuronyx seychellensis

Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  36 grams
Female Weight [2]  36 grams
Egg Length [2]  0.787 inches (20 mm)
Egg Width [2]  0.669 inches (17 mm)
Gestation [2]  83 days
Litter Size [2]  2
Reproductive Mode [3]  Oviparous
Snout to Vent Length [2]  3.543 inches (9 cm)
Habitat Substrate [3]  Arboreal, Terrestrial

Ecoregions

Name Countries Ecozone Biome Species Report Climate Land
Use
Granitic Seychelles forests Seychelles Afrotropic Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests    

Biodiversity Hotspots

Name Location Endemic Species Website
Madagascar and the Indian Ocean Islands Comoros, Madagascar, Mauritius, Seychelles Yes

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External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Length–weight allometries in lizards, S. Meiri, Journal of Zoology 281 (2010) 218–226
♦ 2Nathan 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
♦ 3Meiri, 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