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Koehler's gecko

{{Short description|Species of lizard}}

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| status = LC

| status_system = IUCN3.1

| status_ref = {{cite iucn |author=Bauer, A.M. |author-link=species:Aaron Matthew Bauer |author2=LeBreton, M. |author2-link=species:Matthew LeBreton |date=2021 |title=Ancylodactylus koehleri |volume=2021 |page=e.T177814A126472816 |doi=10.2305/IUCN.UK.2021-1.RLTS.T177814A126472816.en |access-date=19 November 2021}}

| genus = Ancylodactylus

| species = koehleri

| authority = Mertens, 1937

| synonyms = *Cnemaspis köhleri
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  • Cnemaspis africanus köhleri
    {{small|— Loveridge, 1947}}
  • Cnemaspis koehleri
    {{small|— Perret, 1986}}
  • Ancylodactylus koehleri
    {{small|— Malonza & Bauer, 2022}}

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Koehler's gecko (Ancylodactylus koehleri) is a species of gecko, a lizard in the family Gekkonidae. The species is native to Central Africa.

Etymology

The specific name, koehleri, is in honor of Max Köhler who collected the holotype.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}}. (Cnemaspis koehleri, p. 144).

Geographic range

A. koehleri is found in Cameroon and Equatorial Guinea,{{cite web|url=http://reptile-database.reptarium.cz/species?genus=Ancylodactylus&species=koehleri&search_param=%28%28search%3D%27Ancylodactylus+koehleri%27%29%29|title=Ancylodactylus koehleri |website=The Reptile Database|accessdate=2017-11-11}} and also in Gabon and Nigeria.

Habitat

The preferred natural habitat of A. koehleri is forest, at altitudes of {{cvt|560|–|1,500|m|ft}}.

Reproduction

A. koehleri is oviparous.

References

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Further reading

  • Chirio, Laurent; LeBreton, Matthew (2007). Atlas des reptiles du Cameroun. Paris: Muséum nationale d'histoire naturelle. 688 pp. {{ISBN|978-2856536032}}. (in French).
  • Loveridge A (1947). "Revision of the African Lizards of the Family Gekkonidae". Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoölogy at Harvard College 98 (1): 1–469 + Plates 1–7. ("Cnemaspis africanus köhleri [sic]", new combination, pp. 90–91).
  • Mertens R (1937). "Eine neue, tiergeographisch bemerkenswerte Eidechse aus Kamerun ". Senckenbergiana 19: 381–384. (Cnemaspis köhleri, new species). (in German).
  • Perret J-L (1986). "Révision des espèces africaines du Genre Cnemaspis Strauch, sous-genre Ancylodactylus Müller (Lacertilia, Gekkonidae), avec la description de quatre espèces nouvelles ". Revue suisse Zool. 93 (2): 457–505. (Cnemaspis koehleri, new status, pp. 477–480, Figures 17–18). (in French).

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Category:Ancylodactylus

Category:Reptiles described in 1937

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