Weiler's gecko

Weiler's gecko
Conservation status
	; Endangered (IUCN 3.1)
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Reptilia
Order:	Squamata
Family:	Gekkonidae
Genus:	Urocotyledon
Species:	U. weileri
Binomial name
	Urocotyledon weileri; (L. Müller, 1909)
Synonyms
	Diplodactylus weileri ; L. Müller, 1909; Phyllodactylus weileri ; — Wermuth, 1965; Urocotyledon weileri ; — Kluge, 1983;

Weiler's gecko (Urocotyledon weileri) is a species of lizard in the family Gekkonidae. The species is endemic to Cameroon.^[2]

Etymology

The specific name, weileri, is in honor of Justus Weiler who collected the holotype in Cameroon.^[3]^[4]

The natural habitat of U. weileri is forest.^[1]

U. weileri is oviparous.^[2]

^ ^a ^b Chirio, L. (2021). "Urocotyledon weileri". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2021: e.T178610A126472622. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2021-1.RLTS.T178610A126472622.en. Retrieved 19 November 2021.
^ ^a ^b ^c Urocotyledon weileri at the Reptarium.cz Reptile Database. Accessed 18 January 2019.
^ 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. (Urocotyledon weileri, p. 281).
^ Lindholm WA (1905). "Beschreibung einer neuen Schlangenart (Dipsadophidium weileri nov. gen. et nov. sp.)". Jahrbücher des Nassauischen Vereins für Naturkunde 58: 183-187. (in German).

Chirio, Laurent; LeBreton, Matthew (2007). Atlas des reptiles du Cameroun. Paris: Muséum nationale d'histoire naturelle. 688 pp. ISBN 978-2856536032. (in French).
Kluge AG (1983). "Cladistic Relationships among Gekkonid Lizards". Copeia 1983 (2): 465–475. (Urocotyledon weileri, new combination).
Müller L (1909). "Vorläufige Mitteilung über ein neues Chamäleon und ein neuen Gecko aus Kamerun ". Jahrbücher des Nassauischen Vereins für Naturkunde 62: 111–115. (Diplodactylus weileri, new species, pp. 113–115). (in German).
Rösler H (2000). "Kommentierte Liste der rezent, subrezent und fossil bekannten Geckotaxa (Reptilia: Gekkonomorpha)". Gekkota 2: 28–153. (Urocotyledon weileri, p. 119). (in German).

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