Pasteur's dwarf gecko

Pasteur's dwarf gecko
Scientific classification
Kingdom:Animalia
Phylum:Chordata
Class:Reptilia
Order:Squamata
Family:Gekkonidae
Genus:Lygodactylus
Species: L. arnoulti
Binomial name
Lygodactylus arnoulti
Geographic range of L.arnoulti on the island of Madagascar.

Pasteur's dwarf gecko (Lygodactylus arnoulti), also commonly known as Arnoult's gecko, is a species of gecko, a lizard in the family Gekkonidae. The species is native to Madagascar.

Etymology

The specific name, arnoulti, is in honor of French ichthyologist Jacques Arnoult (1914–1995).[2]

References

  1. ↑ Vences, M. 2011. Lygodactylus arnoulti. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2011: e.T172991A6954177. https://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2011-2.RLTS.T172991A6954177.en. Downloaded on 01 July 2018.
  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. (Lygodactylus arnoulti, p. 12).

Further reading

  • Pasteur G (1965). "Notes préliminaires sur les lygodactyles (gekkonidés). IV. Diagnoses de quelques formes africaines et malgaches ". Bulletin du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris 36: 311-314. (Lygodactylus arnoulti, new species). (in French).
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