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Nactus serpensinsula (Serpent Island Gecko)

Synonyms: Cyrtodactylus serpensinsula; Gymnodactylus serpensinsula; Nactus serpensinsula durrelli

Wikipedia Abstract

The Serpent Island gecko (Nactus serpensinsula) is a species of lizard in the Gekkonidae family. The species is endemic to Mauritius.
View Wikipedia Record: Nactus serpensinsula

Infraspecies

Nactus serpensinsula durrellorum
Nactus serpensinsula serpensinsula (Serpent Island gecko)

Endangered Species

Status: Vulnerable
View IUCN Record: Nactus serpensinsula

Attributes

Habitat Substrate [1]  Saxicolous
Reproductive Mode [1]  Oviparous

Ecoregions

Name Countries Ecozone Biome Species Report Climate Land
Use
Mascarene forests France, Mauritius 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

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
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