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Saltuarius cornutus (Northern Leaf-tail Gecko, Leaf-tailed Gecko)

Synonyms: Gymnodactylus cornutus; Gymnodactylus platurus; Phyllurus cornutum; Phyllurus lichenosus

Wikipedia Abstract

The northern leaf-tailed gecko, Saltuarius cornutus, is a species of the genus Saltuarius, the Australian leaf-tailed geckos.
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Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  70 grams
Birth Weight [1]  3 grams
Female Weight [1]  70 grams
Habitat Substrate [2]  Arboreal, Saxicolous
Litter Size [1]  2
Litters / Year [1]  1
Reproductive Mode [2]  Oviparous
Snout to Vent Length [1]  6 inches (15 cm)

Ecoregions

Name Countries Ecozone Biome Species Report Climate Land
Use
Cape York Peninsula tropical savanna Australia Australasia Tropical and Subtropical Grasslands, Savannas, and Shrublands
Eastern Australian temperate forests Australia Australasia Temperate Broadleaf and Mixed Forests
Queensland tropical rain forests Australia Australasia Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests  

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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
Ecoregions provided by World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF). WildFinder: Online database of species distributions, ver. 01.06 Wildfinder Database
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