Biology:Turner's thick-toed gecko

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Short description: Species of lizard

Turner's thick-toed gecko
Turner’s Thick-toed Gecko (Chondrodactylus turneri) (7026896559).jpg
Scientific classification edit
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Squamata
Family: Gekkonidae
Genus: Chondrodactylus
Species:
C. turneri
Binomial name
Chondrodactylus turneri
(Gray, 1864)
Synonyms[1]
  • Homodactylus turneri
    Gray, 1864
  • Pachydactylus bibroni turneri
    — Parker, 1936
  • Pachydactylus turneri
    — Bates & Heideman, 1997
  • Chondrodactylus turneri
    — Bauer & Lamb, 2005

Turner's thick-toed gecko (Chondrodactylus turneri) is a species of lizard in the family Gekkonidae. The species is endemic to southern Africa.

Etymology

The specific name, turneri, is in honor of British entomologist James Aspinall Turner.[2]

Geographic range

C. turneri is found in Angola, Botswana, Eswatini, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Rwanda, South Africa , Tanzania, Zambia, and Zimbabwe.[1][3]

Description

C. turneri is large and robust, with a snout-vent length (SVL) of 10 cm (3.9 in).[4]

Behaviour

Turner's thick-toed gecko is nocturnal and lives on rocks and buildings.[4]

Diet

C. turneri is an ambush predator and feeds on invertebrates and whatever else it can catch and overpower.[4]

C. turneri at Selati, Limpopo

Reproduction

C. turneri is oviparous.[1]

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Species Chondrodactylus turneri at The Reptile Database www.reptile-database.org.
  2. ↑ 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. (Pachydactylus turneri, p. 269).
  3. ↑ Branch (2004).
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 Alexander, Graham; Marais, Johan (2007). A Guide to the Reptiles of Southern Africa. Cape Town: Struik. 408 pp. ISBN:978-1770073869. (Chondrodactylus turneri, pp. 311-313).

Further reading

  • Branch, Bill (2004). Field Guide to Snakes and other Reptiles of Southern Africa. Third Revised edition, Second impression. Sanibel Island, Florida: Ralph Curtis Books. 399 pp. ISBN:0-88359-042-5. (Pachydactylus turneri, pp. 254–255 + Plate 84).
  • Eifler MA, Marchand R, Eifler DA, Malela K (2017). "Habitat Use and Activity Patterns in the Nocturnal Gecko, Chondrodactylus turneri ". Herpetologica 73 (1): 43–47.
  • Gramentz D (2004). "Das Antiprädationsverhalten von Pachydactylus turneri (GRAY 1864)". Sauria 26 (2): 37–41. (in German).
  • Gramentz D (2005). "Zur Ökologie und Ethologie von Pachydactylus turneri (GRAY, 1864) in Zentral Namibia". Sauria 27 (2): 17–22. (in German).
  • Gray JE (1864). "Notes on some New Lizards from South-Eastern Africa, with the Descriptions of several New Species". Annals and Magazine of Natural History, Third Series 14: 380–384. (Homodactylus turneri, new species, pp. 381–382).
  • Rösler H (2000). "Kommentierte Liste der rezent, subrezent und fossil bekannten Geckotaxa (Reptilia: Gekkonomorpha)". Gekkota 2: 28–153, (Pachydactylus turneri, p. 100). (in German).
  • Spawls, Stephen; Howell, Kim; Hinkel, Harald; Menegon, Michele (2018). Field Guide to East African Reptiles, Second Edition. London: Bloomsbury Natural History. 624 pp. ISBN:978-1472935618.

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