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Phyllopezus pollicaris (Brazilian Gecko)

Synonyms: Phyllopezus goyazensis (heterotypic); Thecadactylus pollicaris

Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  10.6 grams
Birth Weight [2]  1 grams
Female Weight [2]  10 grams
Egg Length [2]  0.551 inches (14 mm)
Egg Width [2]  0.433 inches (11 mm)
Litter Size [2]  2
Litters / Year [2]  1
Reproductive Mode [3]  Oviparous
Snout to Vent Length [2]  3.15 inches (8 cm)
Habitat Substrate [3]  Arboreal, Saxicolous, Terrestrial

Ecoregions

Biodiversity Hotspots

Name Location Endemic Species Website
Cerrado Brazil No

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
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