Phyllodactylus interandinus DIXON & HUEY, 1970

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Higher Taxa	Phyllodactylidae, Gekkota, Sauria, Squamata (lizards: geckos)
Subspecies
Common Names	E: Andes Leaf-toed Gecko
Synonym	Phyllodactylus interandinus DIXON & HUEY 1970: 34 Phyllodactylus interandinus — KLUGE 1993 Phyllodactylus interandinus — RÖSLER 2000: 104 Phyllodactylus interandinus — SULLIVAN et al. 2026
Distribution	Peru (Cajamarca, Chinchipe, Maranon, Utcubamba river valleys) Type locality: Peru, Cajamarca, Bellavista
Reproduction	oviparous
Types	Holotype: TCWC 27914, adult female, collected by John W. Wright and James R. Dixon, 26 November 1968
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Comment
Etymology	Named after Latin inter, between, within; at intervals + S. Andes, cordillera in western South America, from a pre-Hispanic people in the Jauja region (Junín, Peru) that gave the mountain range its name and Latin -inus, having the nature or condition of. [“...This species is an inhabitant of the Chinchipe, Maranon, and Utcubamba river valleys of the departments of Amazonas and Cajamarca, Peru...”]. (from Esteban Lavilla, pers. comm., May 2024)
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 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 KOCH, CLAUDIA; MORRIS FLECKS, PABLO J. VENEGAS, PATRICK BIALKE, SEBASTIAN VALVERDE, DENNIS RÖDDER 2016. Applying n-dimensional hypervolumes for species delimitation: unexpected molecular, morphological, and ecological diversity in the Leaf-Toed Gecko Phyllodactylus reissii Peters, 1862 (Squamata: Phyllodactylidae) from northern Peru. Zootaxa 4161 (1): 041–080 - get paper here KOCH, CLAUDIA; PABLO J. VENEGAS, ROY SANTA CRUZ, WOLFGANG BÖHME 2018. Annotated checklist and key to the species of amphibians and reptiles inhabiting the northern Peruvian dry forest along the Andean valley of the Marañón River and its tributaries. Zootaxa 4385 (1): 001–101 - 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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