Animalia > Chordata > Squamata > Sphaerodactylidae > Gonatodes > Gonatodes albogularis

Gonatodes albogularis (Yellow-headed Gecko, White-throated Gecko)

Synonyms: Gonatodes bodinii; Gymnodactylus albogularis; Gymnodactylus maculatus (heterotypic); Gymnodactylus notatus; Stenodactylus fuscus

Wikipedia Abstract

The yellow-headed gecko or white-throated gecko (Gonatodes albogularis) is a species of gecko found in warm parts of Central and South America, and as an introduced species, in Florida.
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Infraspecies

Gonatodes albogularis albogularis (Yellow-headed gecko)
Gonatodes albogularis bodinii
Gonatodes albogularis fuscus
Gonatodes albogularis notatus (Yellow-headed gecko)

Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  2.2 grams
Female Weight [2]  2 grams
Egg Length [2]  0.315 inches (8 mm)
Egg Width [2]  0.276 inches (7 mm)
Gestation [2]  65 days
Litter Size [2]  1
Litters / Year [2]  13
Maximum Longevity [4]  6 years
Reproductive Mode [3]  Oviparous
Snout to Vent Length [2]  1.575 inches (4 cm)
Habitat Substrate [3]  Arboreal, Saxicolous, Terrestrial

Ecoregions

Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Barro Colorado Island Natural Monument III   Panama  
Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary IV 2387149 Florida, United States
La Amistad International Park National Park II 541617 Panama, Costa Rica  
Palo Verde National Park II 46190 Costa Rica  

Biodiversity Hotspots

Name Location Endemic Species Website
Caribbean Islands Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Aruba, Bahamas, Barbados, Cayman Islands, Cuba, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Haiti, Grenada, Guadeloupe, Jamaica, Martinique, Montserrat, Netherlands Antilles, Puerto Rico, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent And The Grenadines, Trinidad and Tobago, Turks And Caicos Islands, Virgin Islands - British, Virgin Islands - U.S. No
Mesoamerica Belize, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama No
Tropical Andes Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Venezuela No
Tumbes-Choco-Magdalena Colombia, Ecuador, Panama, Peru No

Predators

Cebuella pygmaea (pygmy marmoset)[5]

External References

NatureServe Explorer

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
♦ 4de Magalhaes, J. P., and Costa, J. (2009) A database of vertebrate longevity records and their relation to other life-history traits. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 22(8):1770-1774
♦ 5Callithrix pygmaea, Wendy R. Townsend, MAMMALIAN SPECIES No. 665, pp. 1–6 (2001)
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