World Species : Hemidactylus platycephalus (Flathead Leaf-toed Gecko)

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Hemidactylus platycephalus (Flathead Leaf-toed Gecko)

Contents

Attributes

Habitat Substrate ^[1]	Arboreal

Reproductive Mode ^[1]	Oviparous

Ecoregions

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Name	Countries	Ecozone	Biome
Central Zambezian Miombo woodlands	Tanzania, Burundi, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Angola, Zambia, Malawi	Afrotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Grasslands, Savannas, and Shrublands
Eastern Miombo woodlands	Tanzania, Mozambique	Afrotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Grasslands, Savannas, and Shrublands
Northern Zanzibar-Inhambane coastal forest mosaic	Kenya, Somalia, Tanzania	Afrotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests
Southern Miombo woodlands	Zimbabwe, Mozambique, Malawi, Zambia	Afrotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Grasslands, Savannas, and Shrublands
Southern Zanzibar-Inhambane coastal forest mosaic	Mozambique, Tanzania, Malawi, Zimbabwe	Afrotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests
Victoria Basin forest-savanna mosaic	Uganda, Tanzania, Rwanda, Burundi, Kenya	Afrotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Grasslands, Savannas, and Shrublands
Zambezian and Mopane woodlands	South Africa, Mozambique, Botswana, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Swaziland, Namibia, Malawi	Afrotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Grasslands, Savannas, and Shrublands
Zambezian coastal flooded savanna	Mozambique	Afrotropic	Flooded Grasslands and Savannas

Protected Areas

Name	IUCN Category	Area acres	Location
Liwonde National Park	II	116740	Malawi
Malindi-Watamu Biosphere Reserve		48433	Kenya
Uluguru Forest Reserves			Tanzania

Biodiversity Hotspots

Name	Location	Endemic	Species	Website
Coastal Forests of Eastern Africa	Kenya, Mozambique, Somalia, Tanzania	No

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

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