Wolterstorff's Gecko articles - Encyclopedia of Life

Distribution

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Continent: Africa
Distribution: Tanzania (eastern Usambara and Uluguru mountains)
Type locality: Tanga (?), Tanzania.

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Wolterstorff's gecko (Urocotyledon wolterstorffi) is a species of lizard in the family Gekkonidae. The species is endemic to Tanzania.^[1]

The specific name, wolterstorffi, is in honor of German herpetologist Willy Wolterstorff.^[2]

U. wolterstorffi is found in the Uluguru Mountains and the Usambara Mountains of Tanzania.^[1]

U. wolterstorffi is oviparous.^[1]

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d Urocotyledon wolterstorffi 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 wolterstorffi, p. 288).

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Wolterstorff's gecko (Urocotyledon wolterstorffi) is a species of lizard in the family Gekkonidae. The species is endemic to Tanzania.