Carphodactylus
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Carphodactylus | |
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Carphodactylus laevis | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Reptilia |
Order: | Squamata |
Family: | Carphodactylidae |
Genus: | Carphodactylus Günther, 1897 [1] |
Species: | C. laevis
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Binomial name | |
Carphodactylus laevis Günther, 1897
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Carphodactylus laevis is a species in a monotypic genus of Australian gecko, also known as the chameleon gecko.
Description
It has a dark black streak from snout to eye with a small black streak above the tympanum. Brown above, specked with smaller paler brown spots and black specks concentrated around the vertebral line. The original tail is dark brown or black with four to five complete whitish crossbands. Verterbral ridge from nape to tail. Limbs long and thin.[2] It has an average snout-vent length of 13 centimeters.
Distribution
The chameleon gecko lives in the northeastern part of Queensland.[3]
Etymology
Carphodactylus: 'twig finger'.
laevis: 'smooth'.[citation needed]
References
- ^ Günther, A. 1897. Descriptions of new species of lizards and of a tree-frog from north-eastern Queensland. Novitates Zoologicae, Zoological Museum, Tring, 4: 403–406.
- ^ Codger, H. 2000.Reptiles & Amphibians of Australia 6: 207.
- ^ Carphodactylus at the Reptarium.cz Reptile Database
External links
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