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Leviton's gecko

{{Short description|Species of lizard}}

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| name = Leviton's gecko

| status = LC| status_system = IUCN3.1

| status_ref = {{cite iucn |author=Anderson, S. |author-link=species:Steven Clement Anderson |author2=Papenfuss, T. |author2-link=species:Theodore Johnstone Papenfuss |date=2017 |title=Altiphylax levitoni |volume=2017 |page=e.T178235A54485421 |doi=10.2305/IUCN.UK.2017-2.RLTS.T178235A54485421.en |access-date=18 November 2021}}

| genus = Altiphylax

| species = levitoni

| authority = (Golubev & Szczerbak, 1979)

| synonyms = *Tropiocolotes levitoni
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Leviton's gecko (Altiphylax levitoni) is a species of lizard in the family Gekkonidae. The species is endemic to Asia.

Etymology

The specific name, levitoni, is in honor of American herpetologist Alan E. Leviton (born 1930).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}}. (Asiocolotes levitoni, p. 157).

Geographic range

A. levitoni is found in northeastern Afghanistan.{{EMBL species|genus=Altiphylax|species=levitoni}}. www.reptile-database.org.

Habitat

The preferred natural habitat of A. levitoni is rocky areas of shrubland and forest, at altitudes of {{cvt|1,800|–|2,300|m|ft}}, but it has also been found on buildings and rock walls in villages.

Reproduction

A. levitoni is oviparous.

References

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Further reading

  • Golubev ML, Szczerbak NN (1979). "[New species of Tropiocolotes Peters, 1880 genus (Reptilia, Sauria, Gekkonidae) from Afghanistan]". Dopovidi Akademiyi Nauk Ukrayins'koyi SSR, Seriya B, Heolohichni Khimichni ta Biolohichni Nauky 1979 (4): 307–312. (Tropiocolotes levitoni, new species). (in Russian).
  • Jablonski, Daniel; Regan, John M.; Holzheuser, Chace; Farooqi, Javeed; Basit, Abdul; Masroor, Rafaqat (2019). "Additional data to the herpetofauna of Afghanistan". Herpetozoa 32: 177–193. (in English, with abstracts in Pashto and Dari Persian).
  • Rösler H (2000). "Kommentierte Liste der rezent, subrezent und fossil bekannten Geckotaxa (Reptilia: Gekkonomorpha)". Gekkota 2: 28–153. (Tropiocolotes levitoni, p. 118). (in German).
  • Sindaco R, Jeremčenko VK (2008). The Reptiles of the Western Palearctic. 1. Annotated Checklist and Distributional Atlas of the Turtles, Crocodiles, Amphisbaenians and Lizards of Europe, North Africa, Middle East and Central Asia. (Monographas of the Societas Herpetologica Italica). Latina, Italy: Edizioni Belvedere. 580 pp. {{ISBN|978-88-89504-14-7}}. (Altiphylax levitoni, new combination).

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Category:Altiphylax

Category:Reptiles described in 1979

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