Brooks's wolf gecko

Brooks's wolf gecko (Luperosaurus brooksii) is a species of lizard in the family Gekkonidae. The species is endemic to Sumatra.[2]

Brooks's wolf gecko
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Squamata
Family: Gekkonidae
Genus: Luperosaurus
Species:
L. brooksii
Binomial name
Luperosaurus brooksii
(Boulenger, 1920)
Synonyms[2]
  • Gecko brooksii
    Boulenger, 1920
  • Gekko (Lomatodactylus) brooksii
    — Wood et al., 2020

Etymology

The specific name, brooksii, is in honor of British metallurgical chemist Cecil Joslin Brooks, who collected natural history specimens in Borneo and Sumatra.[3]

Habitat

The preferred natural habitat of L. brooksii is forest.[1]

Behavior

L. brooksii is arboreal, living in the forest canopy.[1]

Reproduction

L. brooksii is oviparous.[2]

References
  1. Iskandar D, Riyanto A, Kamsi M, Amarasinghe A (2021). "Luperosaurus brooksii ". The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2021: https://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2021-3.RLTS.T101950492A101950503.en. Accessed on 10 April 2022.
  2. Gekko brooksii at the Reptarium.cz Reptile Database
  3. Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. ISBN 978-1-4214-0135-5. ("Luperosaurus brooksi [sic]", p. 40).

Further reading
  • Boulenger GA (1920). "Descriptions of a new Gecko and a new Snake from Sumatra". Annals and Magazine of Natural History, Ninth Series 5: 281–283. (Gecko brooksii, new species, pp. 281–282).
  • Russell AP (1979). "A New Species of Luperosaurus (Gekkonidae) with Comments on the Genus". Herpetologica 35 (3): 282–288. (Luperosaurus brooksii, new combination).
  • Wood, Perry L. Jr.; Guo, Xianguang; Travers, Scott L.; Su, Yong-Chao; Olson, Karen V.; Bauer, Aaron M.; Grismer, L. Lee; Siler, Cameron D.; Moyle, Robert G.; Andersen, Michael J.; Brown, Rafe M. (2020). "Parachute geckos free fall into synonymy: Gekko phylogeny, and a new subgeneric classification, inferred from thousands of ultraconserved elements". Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 146: 106731. (corrigendum: Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 164: 107255.



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