Argentine Marked Gecko articles - Encyclopedia of Life

Distribution

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Continent: South-America
Distribution: Argentina (Salta, Tucuman, Catamarca, Cordoba, La Rioja, Mendoza)
Type locality: Cosquin, Cordoba, Argentina.

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The Argentine marked gecko (Homonota whitii) is a species of lizard in the family Phyllodactylidae. The species is endemic to Argentina.

The specific name, whitii, is in honor of naturalist Ernest William White (1858–1884) who collected the holotype.^[2]

H. whitii is found in northwestern Argentina, in the provinces of Catamarca, Córdoba, La Rioja, Mendoza, Salta, and Tucumán.^[3]

The preferred natural habitat of H. whitii is forest.^[1]

H. whitii is oviparous.^[3]

^ ^a ^b Avila L (2017). "Homonota whitii ". The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2017: e.T56234275A56234281. https://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2017-2.RLTS.T56234275A56234281.en. Downloaded on 26 December 2020.
^ Beolens B, Watkins M, Grayson M (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. ISBN 978-1-4214-0135-5. (Homonota whitii, p. 284).
^ ^a ^b Homonota whitii at the Reptarium.cz Reptile Database. Accessed 26 January 2019.

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The Argentine marked gecko (Homonota whitii) is a species of lizard in the family Phyllodactylidae. The species is endemic to Argentina.