Phyllodactylus angustidigitus DIXON & HUEY, 1970

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Higher Taxa	Phyllodactylidae, Gekkota, Sauria, Squamata (lizards: geckos)
Subspecies
Common Names	E: Narrow Leaf-toed Gecko
Synonym	Phyllodactylus angustidigitus DIXON & HUEY 1970: 16 Phyllodactylus angustidigitus — KLUGE 1993 Phyllodactylus angustidigitus — RÖSLER 2000: 103 Phyllodactylus angustidigitus — SULLIVAN et al. 2026
Distribution	Peru (beaches of Paracas, Peninsula and associated islands) Type locality: Peru, Ica, Pisco
Reproduction	oviparous
Types	Holotype: TCWC 27915, adult male, collected by James R. Dixon and John W. Wright, 11 November 1968
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Comment	Phylogenetics: Phyllodactylus gerrhopygus and P. angustidigitus are paraphyletic with respect to other Phyllodactylus as well as Garthia and Homonota, but Sullivan et al. 2026 did not resolve this problem.
Etymology	Named after Latin “angustus, -a, -um” = narrow and “digitus” = finger.
References	Dixon, James R. & Huey, Raymond B. 1970. Systematics of the lizards of the Gekkonid genus Phyllodactylus on mainland South America. Contributions in Science, Los Angeles County Museum (192): 1-78 - get paper here Goldberg, Stephen R. 2016. Note on Reproduction of Phyllodactylus angustidigitus (Squamata: Gekkonidae) from Peru. Bull. Chicago Herp. Soc. 51(3): 45-46 - get paper here Huey, R. B. 1979. Parapatry and niche complementarity of Peruvian desert geckos (Phyllodactylus): the ambiguous role of competition. Oecologia (Berl.) 38: 249-259 - get paper here Mendoza A, Pérez J, Alvarado E, Barrera D, Castillo E, Fernandez M, Milla J, Olivera D, Ramirez C, Santa Cruz R, Salazar E, Torres-Ccasani G, Aguilar-Puntriano C. 2023. Anfibios y reptiles del departamento de Ica con comentarios sobre su distribución. Revista peruana de biología 30(1): e23425 001- 014 (Marzo 2023) - get paper here Rösler, H. 2000. Kommentierte Liste der rezent, subrezent und fossil bekannten Geckotaxa (Reptilia: Gekkonomorpha). Gekkota 2: 28-153 Sullivan, Kathryn A; Randy L Klabacka, Alessandro Catenazzi, José Pérez Z, Pablo J Venegas, Perry L Wood, Darren C Browne, Claudia Koch, Jeroen P van Leeuwen, Federico Valdez, Stuart V Nielsen, Aaron M Bauer, Jack W Sites, César Aguilar Puntriano, El 2026. One if by land, two if by sea: molecular phylogeny and biogeography of the Neotropical leaf-toed geckos (Phyllodactylidae: Phyllodactylus). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, 206 (4): zlag063 - get paper here
External links	IUCN Red List National Center for Biotechnology Information Google images

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