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Phyllodactylus xanti (Leaf-toed Gecko; xantus leaf-toed gecko)

Synonyms: Phyllodactylus angelensis; Phyllodactylus mentalis; Phyllodactylus nocticolus (heterotypic); Phyllodactylus tinklei

Wikipedia Abstract

The Xantus leaf-toed gecko, or leaf-toed gecko (Phyllodactylus xanti) is a gecko found in California and Mexico. It has vertical pupils, immovable eyelids, and leaf-like toe pads. The dorsal granular scales are interspersed with tubercles, and a brownish, grey or pinkish dorsum with a light venter. It often squeaks when handled; it has a very fragile tail which is readily lost. This gecko is between 2.5 and 6.2 cm long.
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Infraspecies

Phyllodactylus xanti xanti (Leaf-toed gecko)
Phyllodactylus xanti zweifeli

Attributes

Habitat Substrate [1]  Saxicolous
Litter Size [2]  2
Litters / Year [2]  2
Reproductive Mode [1]  Oviparous

Ecoregions

Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Mojave and Colorado Deserts Biosphere Reserve 5901 California, United States  
Parque Nacional de Sierra San Pedro Martir National Park II 180607 Baja California, Mexico  
Philip L. Boyd Deep Canyon Desert Research Center 6101 California, United States
Reserva de la Biosfera de la Amistad Biosphere Reserve II 493313 Costa Rica  
Reserva de la Biosfera El Vizcaino Biosphere Reserve VI 6176727 Mexico  

Biodiversity Hotspots

Name Location Endemic Species Website
California Floristic Province Mexico, United States No

Range Map

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
♦ 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
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