Animalia > Chordata > Squamata > Gekkonidae > Hemidactylus > Hemidactylus mercatorius

Hemidactylus mercatorius (Gray's Leaf-toed Gecko)

Synonyms: Hemidactylus mandamus; Hemidactylus mandanus (heterotypic); Hemidactylus persimilis

Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  2.4 grams
Female Weight [2]  2 grams
Egg Length [2]  0.354 inches (9 mm)
Egg Width [2]  0.315 inches (8 mm)
Reproductive Mode [3]  Oviparous
Snout to Vent Length [2]  1.968 inches (5 cm)
Habitat Substrate [3]  Arboreal, Terrestrial

Ecoregions

Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Réserve Naturelle Intégrale d'Andohahela National Park II 180522 Madagascar

Biodiversity Hotspots

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

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
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