Haseman's gecko
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Order: | Squamata |
| Family: | Sphaerodactylidae |
| Genus: | Gonatodes |
| Species: | G. hasemani
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| Gonatodes hasemani Griffin, 1917
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Haseman's gecko (Gonatodes hasemani) is a species of lizard in the family Sphaerodactylidae. The species is indigenous to northern South America.
Etymology
[edit]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
[edit]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
[edit]The preferred natural habitat of G. hasemani is forest.[1]
Description
[edit]G. hasemani may attain a snout-to-vent length (SVL) of 3 cm (1.2 in).[4]
Reproduction
[edit]Parasites
[edit]G. hasemani is a host for parasitic worms of the genera Mesocestoides and Skrjabinelazia.[5]
References
[edit]- ^ a b 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.
- ^ a b c Gonatodes hasemani at the Reptarium.cz Reptile Database
- ^ 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).
- ^ Griffin (1917). p. 306.
- ^ 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
[edit]- 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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