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Ancylodactylus barbouri

{{Short description|Species of lizard}}

{{redirect|Barbour's gecko|the species from Madagascar|Barbour's day gecko}}

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| status = LC

| status_system = IUCN3.1

| status_ref = {{cite iucn |author=Howell, K. |author2=Beraduccii, J. |author3=Ngalason, W. |year=2021 |title=Cnemaspis barbouri |page=e.T44648012A45027743 |doi=10.2305/IUCN.UK.2021-3.RLTS.T44648012A45027743.en}}

| genus = Ancylodactylus

| species = barbouri

| authority = Perret, 1986

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Ancylodactylus barbouri, also known commonly as Barbour's gecko, is a species of lizard in the family Gekkonidae. The species is endemic to Tanzania.

Etymology

The specific name, barbouri, is in honor of American herpetologist Thomas Barbour.Beolens B, Watkins M, Grayson M (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. {{ISBN|978-1-4214-0135-5}}. (Cnemaspis barbouri, p. 16).

Geographic range

A. barbouri is found in the Uluguru Mountains of Tanzania.{{EMBL species|genus=Ancylodactylus|species=barbouri}} www.reptile-database.org.

Reproduction

A. barbouri is oviparous.

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Further reading

  • Perret J-L (1986). "Révision des espèces africaines de genre Cnemaspis Strauch, sous-genre Ancylodactylus Müller (Lacertilia, Gekkonidae), avec la description de quatre espèces nouvelles [= Revision of the African species of the genus Cnemaspis Strauch, subgenus Ancylodactylus Müller (Lacertilia, Gekkonidae), with the description of four new species]". Revue suisse de Zoologie 93 (2): 457–505. (Cnemaspis barbouri, new species, pp. 497–498, Figure 33). (in French, with an abstract in English).
  • Spawls S, Howell K, Hinkel H, Menegon M (2018). Field Guide to East African Reptiles, Second Edition. London: Bloomsbury Natural History. 624 pp. {{ISBN|978-1472935618}}. (Cnemaspis barbouri, p. 78).

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Category:Ancylodactylus

Category:Reptiles described in 1986

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