Lepidodactylus guppyi explained

Lepidodactylus guppyi, also known commonly as Guppy's gecko and the Solomons scaly-toed gecko, is a species of lizard in the family Gekkonidae. The species is endemic to islands in the southwestern Pacific Ocean.

Etymology

The specific name, guppyi, is in honor of British botanist Henry Brougham Guppy.^[1]

Geographic range

L. guppyi is found in the Bismarck Archipelago, the Solomon Islands, and Vanuatu.

Habitat

The preferred natural habitat of L. guppyi is forest, at altitudes from sea level to .

Reproduction

L. guppyi is oviparous.

Further reading

• Boulenger GA (1884). "Diagnoses of new Reptiles and Batrachians from the Solomon Islands, collected and presented to the British Museum by H. B. Guppy, Esq., H.M.S. ‘Lark’ ". Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1884: 210–213. (Lepidodactylus guppyi, new species, p. 210).
• Boulenger GA (1885). Catalogue of the Lizards in the British Museum (Natural History). Second Edition. Volume I., Geckonidæ .... London: Trustees of the British Museum (Natural History). (Taylor and Francis, printers). xii + 436 pp. + Plates I–XXXII. (Lepidodactylus guppyi, pp. 166–167).
• McCoy M (2006). Reptiles of the Solomon Islands. Sofia, Bulgaria: Pensoft Publishers. 212 pp. .
• Rösler H (2000). "Kommentierte Liste der rezent, subrezent und fossil bekannten Geckotaxa (Reptilia: Gekkonomorpha)". Gekkota 2: 28–153. (Lepidodactylus guppyi, p. 91). (in German).

Notes and References

1. [species:Bo Beolens|Beolens, Bo]