Haseman's gecko

Haseman's gecko
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Squamata
Suborder: Gekkota
Family: Sphaerodactylidae
Genus: Gonatodes
Species:
G. hasemani
Binomial name
Gonatodes hasemani
Griffin, 1917
Synonyms
  • Gonatodes hasemani
    Griffin, 1917
  • Gonatodes spinulosus
    Amaral, 1933
  • Gonatodes hasemanni [sic]
    Vanzolini, 1953
    (ex errore)
  • Gonatodes hasemani
    — Kluge, 1993

Haseman's gecko (Gonatodes hasemani) is a species of lizard in the family Sphaerodactylidae. The species is indigenous to northern South America.

Etymology

The specific name, hasemani, is in honor of American ichthyologist John Diederich Haseman, who collected specimens in South America (1907–1910) for Carnegie Museum (now Carnegie Museum of Natural History).

Geographic range

G. hasemani is native to northern Bolivia (Pando, Beni), northern Brazil (Acre, Amazonas, Mato Grosso, Pará, Rondônia), southeastern Colombia (Vaupés), and eastern Peru.

Habitat

The preferred natural habitat of G. hasemani is forest.

Description

G. hasemani may attain a snout-to-vent length (SVL) of 3 cm (1.2 in).

Reproduction

G. hasemani is oviparous.

Parasites

G. hasemani is a host for parasitic worms of the genera Mesocestoides and Skrjabinelazia.

References

  1. 1 2 Perez P, Avila-Pires TCS, Aparicio J, Moravec J (2019). "Gonatodes hasemani ". The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2019: e.T178717A44956909. https://doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2019-2.RLTS.T178717A44956909.en. Downloaded on 30 March 2020.
  2. 1 2 3 Gonatodes hasemani at the Reptarium.cz Reptile Database
  3. ↑ Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. ISBN 978-1-4214-0135-5. (Gonatodes hasemani, p. 117).
  4. ↑ Griffin (1917). p. 306.
  5. ↑ Goldberg SR, Bursey, Vitt LJ (2010). "Helminths of Gonatodes hasemani and Pseudogonatodes guinanensis (Squamata, Gekkonidae) from Brazil, South America". Herpetological Bulletin (114): 30–32.

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