Animalia > Chordata > Squamata > Phyllodactylidae > Ptyodactylus > Ptyodactylus guttatus

Ptyodactylus guttatus (Sinai Fan-fingered Gecko)

Synonyms: Gecko maculatus; Ptyodactylus hasselquistii var. siphonorhina; Ptyodactylus lacazii

Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  8.5 grams
Egg Length [1]  0.591 inches (15 mm)
Egg Width [1]  0.591 inches (15 mm)
Gestation [1]  3 months 12 days
Litter Size [1]  2
Litters / Year [1]  4
Maximum Longevity [1]  11 years
Reproductive Mode [2]  Oviparous
Snout to Vent Length [1]  3.15 inches (8 cm)
Habitat Substrate [2]  Saxicolous

Ecoregions

Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Wadi Rum Protected Area National Park V   Jordan  

Biodiversity Hotspots

Name Location Endemic Species Website
Mediterranean Basin Algeria, Egypt, France, Greece, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Libya, Portugal, Spain, Syria, Tunisia, Turkey No

Predators

Echis coloratus (Palestine Saw-scaled Viper)[3]

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
3AMBUSH SITE SELECTION OF A DESERT SNAKE (ECHIS COLORATUS) AT AN OASIS, HADAS TSAIRI AND AMOS BOUSKILA, Herpetologica, 60(1), 2004, 13–23
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