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Chondrodactylus bibronii (Bibron's Thick-toed Gecko)

Synonyms: Pachydactylus bibronii; Tarentola bibronii

Wikipedia Abstract

Bibron's gecko (Pachydactylus bibronii) is a species of thick-toed gecko endemic to southern Africa.
View Wikipedia Record: Chondrodactylus bibronii

Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  12.8 grams
Egg Length [2]  0.669 inches (17 mm)
Egg Width [2]  0.551 inches (14 mm)
Gestation [2]  66 days
Litter Size [2]  2
Maximum Longevity [4]  6 years
Reproductive Mode [3]  Oviparous
Snout to Vent Length [2]  2.756 inches (7 cm)
Habitat Substrate [3]  Arboreal, Saxicolous

Ecoregions

Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Kruger National Park II 4718115 Mpumalanga, South Africa
Kruger to Canyons Biosphere Reserve   Mpumalanga, South Africa  
Mlawula Nature Reserve IV 46444 Swaziland  
Skeleton Coast Game Park II 4168395 Namibia  

Biodiversity Hotspots

Name Location Endemic Species Website
Cape Floristic Region South Africa No
Maputaland-Pondoland-Albany Mozambique, South Africa, Swaziland No
Succulent Karoo Namibia, South Africa No

Predators

Pythonodipsas carinata (Western Keeled Snake)[5]

Consumers

Parasitized by 
Spauligodon smithi[6]

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
♦ 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
♦ 5Sexual dimorphism, diet and aspects if reproduction of the western keeled snake, Pythonodipsas carinata (Serpentes: Colubridae), W.R. Branch, R. Shine, P.S. Harlow and J.K. Webb, Afr. J. Herpetol. 1997, 46(2): 89-97
♦ 6Gibson, D. I., Bray, R. A., & Harris, E. A. (Compilers) (2005). Host-Parasite Database of the Natural History Museum, London
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