Haseman's gecko

Haseman's gecko (Gonatodes hasemani) is a species of lizard in the family Sphaerodactylidae. The species is indigenous to northern South America.

Haseman's gecko
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Squamata
Family: Sphaerodactylidae
Genus: Gonatodes
Species:
G. hasemani
Binomial name
Gonatodes hasemani
Griffin, 1917
Synonyms[2]
  • Gonatodes hasemani
    Griffin, 1917
  • Gonatodes spinulosus
    Amaral, 1933
  • Gonatodes hasemanni [sic]
    Vanzolini, 1953
    (ex errore)
  • Gonatodes hasemani
    — Kluge, 1993

Etymology

The specific name, hasemani, is in honor of American ichthyologist John Diederich Haseman, who collected specimens in South America (1907–1910) for Carnegie Museum (now Carnegie Museum of Natural History).[3]

Geographic range

G. hasemani is native to northern Bolivia (Pando, Beni), northern Brazil (Acre, Amazonas, Mato Grosso, Pará, Rondônia), southeastern Colombia (Vaupés), and eastern Peru.[2]

Habitat

The preferred natural habitat of G. hasemani is forest.[1]

Description

G. hasemani may attain a snout-to-vent length (SVL) of 3 cm (1.2 in).[4]

Reproduction

G. hasemani is oviparous.[2]

Parasites

G. hasemani is a host for parasitic worms of the genera Mesocestoides and Skrjabinelazia.[5]

References
  1. Perez P, Avila-Pires TCS, Aparicio J, Moravec J (2019). "Gonatodes hasemani ". The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2019: e.T178717A44956909. https://doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2019-2.RLTS.T178717A44956909.en. Downloaded on 30 March 2020.
  2. Gonatodes hasemani at the Reptarium.cz Reptile Database
  3. 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. (Gonatodes hasemani, p. 117).
  4. Griffin (1917). p. 306.
  5. Goldberg SR, Bursey, Vitt LJ (2010). "Helminths of Gonatodes hasemani and Pseudogonatodes guinanensis (Squamata, Gekkonidae) from Brazil, South America". Herpetological Bulletin (114): 30–32.

Further reading
  • Amaral A ("1932") (1933). "Estudos sobre Lacertilios neotropicos. I. Novos gêneros e espécies de lagartos do Brasil ". Memórias do Instituto Butantan 7: 51–75. (Gonatodes spinulosus, new species, p. 56). (in Portuguese).
  • Ávila-Pires TCS (1995). "Lizards of Brazilian Amazonia (Reptilia: Squamata)". Zoologische Verhandelingen (299): 1–706. (Gonatodes hasemani, p. 268).
  • Gamble T, Simons AM, Colli GR, Vitt LJ (2008). "Tertiary climate change and the diversification of the Amazonian gecko genus Gonatodes (Sphaerodactylidae, Squamata)". Molecular Phylogeny and Evolution 46 (1): 269–277.
  • Griffin LE (1917). "A List of the South American Lizards of the Carnegie Museum, With Descriptions of Four New Species". Annals of the Carnegie Museum 11: 304-320 + Plates XXXII-XXXV. (Gonatodes hasemani, new species, pp. 304–306 + Plate XXXII, Figures 1-3).
  • Ribeiro-Júnior MA (2015). "Catalogue of distribution of lizards (Reptilia: Squamata) from the Brazilian Amazonia. II. Gekkonidae, Phyllodactylidae, Sphaerodactylidae". Zootaxa 3981 (1): 001–055.
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