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Bavayia cyclura (GÜNTHER, 1872)

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Higher TaxaDiplodactylidae, Gekkota, Sauria, Squamata (lizards: geckos)
Subspecies 
Common NamesE: Gunther's New Caledonian Gecko 
SynonymPlatydactylus pacificus BAVAY 1869
Peripia cyclura GÜNTHER 1872: 422
Lepidodactylus neocaledonicus BOCAGE 1873
Hemidactylus (Peripia) Bavayi SAUVAGE 1879: 71
Hemidactylus (Peripia) cyclura — SAUVAGE 1879: 72
Gecko (Lepidodactylus) neo-caledonicus — SCHMELZ 1877
Gecko neocaledonicus — MÜLLER 1880: 125
Lepidodactylus cyclurus — BOULENGER 1883: 121
Lepidodactylus cyclurus — BOULENGER 1885: 167
Bavayia cyclura — ROUX 1913
Bavaia cuclura — BAUER & DEVANEY 1987 (in error)
Bavayia cyclura — RÖSLER 2000: 60
Bavayia cyclura — BAUER et al. 2012
Bavayia cyclura — BAUER et al. 2022: 101 
DistributionNew Caledonia, Loyalty Islands

Type locality: New Caledonia  
Reproductionoviparous 
TypesLectotype: BMNH 71.4.16.30B, collected J. Brenchley, Designated by Wright et al. (2000). Syntypes originally BMNH 71.4.16.30(A-B), BMNH 71.4.16.31 (A-C), which are catalogued as Types of Lepidodactylus cyclurus. 
DiagnosisDiagnosis (genus): Small to medium-sized diplodactylid geckos (41-90 mm maximum SVL, mostly 50-70 mm), scalation fine and granular, entirely lacking tubercles, digits expanded and bearing adhesive subdigital scansors, divided for most of the free length of digits II-V, interdigital webbing absent or only weakly developed, all digits clawed, claws of digit I borne lateral to a single median apical scansor, between a larger medial and small lateral apical scansor, or in a notch between a partly divided apical scansor, males with 7-46 precloacal pores arranged in 1-4 contiguous rows, original tail cylindrical or slightly depressed, ~99-117% SVL (usually <110% SVL). Dorsal life coloration is a combination of browns and whites to creams, most often in alternating bands or chevrons with paler blotches or saddles on a darker background (patternless or striped individuals are typical in three species and occur uncommonly in some others). Ventral coloration in life cream, yellow, grayish or brownish. Among other New Caledonian diplodactylid geckos, Bavayia spp. may be distinguished from Oedodera Bauer, Jackman, Sadlier, and Whitaker, 2006, Eurydactylodes Wermuth, 1965, Rhacodactylus Fitzinger, 1843, Correlophus Guichenot, 1866 and Mniarogekko Bauer, Whitaker, Sadlier, and Jackman, 2012 by their divided subdigital scansors (vs. undivided), from Paniegekko Bauer, Jackman, Sadlier, and Whitaker, 2012 by their proportionally smaller head, smaller number of precloacal pores (maximum 46 vs. >50), and from Dierogekko Bauer, Jackman, Sadlier, and Whitaker, 2006 by their generally larger size (40 of 41 species with maximum SVL >46 mm VS. all species <45 mm SVL) and dorsal pattern of predominantly transverse elements (vs. predominantly longitudinal elements). See Bauer et al. 2012a for diagnoses of all New Caledonian diplodactylid genera. (BAUER et al. 2022).


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CommentAbundance: Common and fairly widespread.

Similar species: Superficially very similar to the species B. crassicollis.

Type species: Peripia cyclura Günther, 1872 is the type species of the genus Bavayia ROUX 1913. See Bauer and Henle (1994) and Bauer and Sadlier (2000), and Bauer et al. (2022) for detailed information on members of this genus.

Group: B. cyclura clade (including cyclura, robusta)

Distribution: see map in Bauer et al. 2022: 104 (Fig. 39). 
References
  • Bauer, A. M. & SADLIER, R. A. 2000. The herpetofauna of New Caledonia. Contributions to Herpetology, 17; Society for Study Amphibians and Reptiles, Ithaca, New York.
  • Bauer, A. M.; DeVaney, K. D. 1987. Comparative aspects of diet and habitat in some New Caledonian lizards. Amphibia-Reptilia 8: 365-372 - get paper here
  • Bauer, A.M. & Sadlier,R.A. 1993. Systematics, biogeography and conservation of the lizards of New Caledonia. Biodiv. Lett. 1: 107-122 - get paper here
  • Bauer, Aaron M.; Ross A. Sadlier , Todd R. Jackman 2022. A Revision of the Genus Bavayia Roux, 1913 (Squamata: Gekkota: Diplodactylidae), a Non-adaptive Radiation of Microendemic Species. Proc. Cal. Acad. Sci. 67 (Suppl. I): 1-236
  • BAUER, AARON M.; TODD R. JACKMAN, ROSS A. SADLIER & ANTHONY H. WHITAKER 2012. Revision of the giant geckos of New Caledonia (Reptilia: Diplodactylidae: Rhacodactylus). Zootaxa 3404: 1–52 - get paper here
  • Bauer, Aaron M.;Sadlier, Roass A. 1994. The terrestrial herpetofauna of the Ile des Pins, New Caledonia. Pacific Science 48 (4): 353-366
  • Bocage, J. V. Barboza du. 1873. Mélanges erpétologiques. l. Note sur quelques geckotiens nouveaux ou peu connus de la Nouvelle Calédonie. Jornal de Sciencias Mathematicas, Physicas e Naturaes, Lisboa, 4: 201—207. - get paper here
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  • Rösler, H. 2000. Kommentierte Liste der rezent, subrezent und fossil bekannten Geckotaxa (Reptilia: Gekkonomorpha). Gekkota 2: 28-153
  • Sadlier R A. Bauer A M. 1997. The terrestrial herpetofauna of the Loyalty Islands. Pacific Science 51 (1): 76-90.
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  • Wright,J.L., Bauer, A.M. & Sadlier, R.A. 2000. Two new gecko species allied to Bavayia sauvagii and Bavayia cyclura (Reptilia: Diplodactylidae) from New Caledonia. Pacific Science 54: 39-55
 
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