Comoro ground gecko
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Squamata
Family: Gekkonidae
Genus: Paroedura
Species:
P. sanctijohannis
Binomial name
Paroedura sanctijohannis
Günther, 1879
Synonyms[2]
  • Paroedura sancti johannis
    Günther, 1879
  • Phyllodactylus sancti-johannis
    — Boulenger, 1885
  • Phyllodactylus sanctijohannis
    — Wermuth, 1965
  • Paroedura sanctijohannis
    — Kluge, 1993

The Comoro ground gecko (Paroedura sanctijohannis) is a species of lizard in the family Gekkonidae. The species is endemic to the Comoro Islands.[2]

Etymology

The specific name, sanctijohannis, refers to the island formerly called Johanna, now called Anjouan.[3]

Habitat

The preferred natural habitat of P. sanctijohannis is forest, at altitudes of 7–1,042 m (23–3,419 ft).[1]

Reproduction

P. sanctijohannis is oviparous.[2]

References

  1. 1 2 Hawlitschek, O., Augros, S. & Webster, K.C. (2021). "Paroedura sanctijohannis". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2021: e.T189231040A189231133. Retrieved 19 November 2021.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  2. 1 2 3 Paroedura sanctijohannis 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. (Paroedura sanctijohannis, p. 254).

Further reading

  • Boulenger GA (1885). Catalogue of the Lizards in the British Museum (Natural History). Second Edition. Volume I. Geckonidæ ... London: Trustees of the British Museum (Natural History). (Taylor and Francis, printers). xii + 436 pp. + Plates I–XXXII. (Phyllodactylus sancti-johannis, p. 86 + Plate VII, figures 1, 1a).
  • Günther A (1879). "On Mammals and Reptiles from Johanna, Comoro Islands". Annals and Magazine of Natural History, Fifth Series 3: 215–219. (Parœdura sancti johannis, new species, p. 218).
  • Hawlitschek O, Glaw F (2012). "The complex colonization history of nocturnal geckos (Paroedura) in the Comoros Archipelago". Zoologica Scripta 42 (2): 135–150.
  • Rösler H (2000). "Kommentierte Liste der rezent, subrezent und fossil bekannten Geckotaxa (Reptilia: Gekkonomorpha)". Gekkota 2: 28–153. (Paroedura sanctijohannis, p. 101). (in German).


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