Animalia > Chordata > Squamata > Gekkonidae > Hemiphyllodactylus > Hemiphyllodactylus aurantiacus

Hemiphyllodactylus aurantiacus (Southern Ghats slender gecko)

Synonyms: Hemidactylus aurantiacus; Hemiphyllodactylus typus aurantiacus; Lepidodactylus aurantiacus (pro parte)

Wikipedia Abstract

Hemiphyllodactylus aurantiacus is a species of gecko with a restricted distribution in the hills of southern India.
View Wikipedia Record: Hemiphyllodactylus aurantiacus

Endangered Species

Status: Critically Endangered
View IUCN Record: Hemiphyllodactylus aurantiacus

Attributes

Egg Length [1]  0.276 inches (7 mm)
Egg Width [1]  0.236 inches (6 mm)
Reproductive Mode [2]  Oviparous
Snout to Vent Length [1]  1.968 inches (5 cm)
Habitat Substrate [2]  Saxicolous

Ecoregions

Name Countries Ecozone Biome Species Report Climate Land
Use
South Deccan Plateau dry deciduous forests India Indo-Malayan Tropical and Subtropical Dry Broadleaf Forests
South Western Ghats moist deciduous forests India Indo-Malayan Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests

Biodiversity Hotspots

Name Location Endemic Species Website
Western Ghats and Sri Lanka India, Sri Lanka No

Range Map

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Nathan 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
♦ 2Meiri, 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