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Lepidodactylus tepukapili ZUG, WATLING, ALEFAIO, ALEFAIO & LUDESCHER, 2003

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Higher TaxaGekkonidae, Gekkota, Sauria, Squamata (lizards: geckos)
Subspecies 
Common Names 
SynonymLepidodactylus tepukapili ZUG et al. 2003 
DistributionPolynesia (Tuvalu)

Type locality: Funafuti Atoll, Tuvalu Island, Polynesia (8° 34’ S, 179° 04’ E).  
Reproductionoviparous 
TypesHolotype: USNM 531713-16 
Diagnosis 
CommentSimilar species: Member of Lepidodactylus group II, most similar to L. gardineri.

Abundance: only known from its original description (Meiri et al. 2017). 
References
  • Ineich, I. 2008. A new arboreal Lepidodactylus (Reptilia: Gekkonidae) from Espiritu Santo Island, Vanuatu: from egg to holotype. Zootaxa 1918: 26–38 - get paper here
  • Meiri, Shai; Aaron M. Bauer, Allen Allison, Fernando Castro-Herrera, Laurent Chirio, Guarino Colli, Indraneil Das, Tiffany M. Doan, Frank Glaw, Lee L. Grismer, Marinus Hoogmoed, Fred Kraus, Matthew LeBreton, Danny Meirte, Zoltán T. Nagy, Cristiano d 2017. Extinct, obscure or imaginary: the lizard species with the smallest ranges. Diversity and Distributions 24 (2): 262-273 - get paper here
  • Zug, G. R.; Watling, D.; Alefaio, T.; Alefaio, S.; Ludescher, C. 2003. A new gecko (Reptilia: Squamata: Genus Lepidodactylus) from Tuvalu, South-central Pacific. Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington 116 (1): 38-46 - get paper here
 
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