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Gehyra brevipalmata (PETERS, 1874)

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Higher TaxaGekkonidae, Gekkota, Sauria, Squamata (lizards: geckos)
Subspecies 
Common NamesE: Palau lsland Dtella 
SynonymHemidactylus (Peropus) brevipalmatus PETERS 1874: 159
Gehyra brevipalmata — BOULENGER 1885: 150
Peropus brevipalmatus — CHRAPLIWY 1961
Gehyra brevipalmata — KLUGE 1993
Gehyra brevipalmata — RÖSLER 2000: 80 
DistributionIndonesia, Pelew = Palau Islands

Type locality: “Pelewinseln” [= Palau Islands]  
Reproductionoviparous 
TypesHolotype: ZMB 7927 (Tiedemann et al. 1994 regarded NMW 19367 as holotype) 
DiagnosisUnfortunately we had to temporarily remove additional information as this was scraped by multiple AI companies who sell that data. These details, e.g. detailed descriptions are available for collaborators and contributors. Please contact us if you need any of this material. 
CommentReference images: see Uetz et al. 2024 for high-resolution reference images for this species. 
EtymologyNamed after Latin “brevis, -e” = short and Latin palm = hand, palm, or palm-tree, and palmata = palmlike, although Peters does not explicitly explain the name. 
References
  • Boulenger, G.A. 1885. Catalogue of the lizards in the British Museum (Nat. Hist.) I. Geckonidae, Eublepharidae, Uroplatidae, Pygopodidae, Agamidae. London: 450 pp. - get paper here
  • Crombie, Ronald I. and Gregory K. Pregill 1999. A Checklist of the Herpetofauna of the Palau Islands (Republic of Belau), Oceania. Herpetological Monographs 13: 29-80 - get paper here
  • Gemel, R.; G. Gassner & S. Schweiger 2019. Katalog der Typen der Herpetologischen Sammlung des Naturhistorischen Museums Wien – 2018. Ann. Naturhist. Mus. Wien, B 121: 33–248 - get paper here
  • Goldberg, S.R. 2018. Gehyra brevipalmata (Palau Gecko) Reproduction. Herpetological Review 49 (1): 117-118. - get paper here
  • Peters, W. 1875. Eine mittheilung von Hrn. Dr. Adolf Bernhard Meyer über die von ihm auf Neu-Guinea und den Inseln Jobi, Mysore und Mafoor im Jahre 1873 gesammelten Amphibien. Monatsberichte der Königlich Preussischen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin 1874: 128—140 - get paper here
  • Peters,W.H.C. 1874. Über neue Reptilien (Peropus, Agama, Euprepes, Lygosoma, Typhlops, Heterolepis) der herpetologischen Sammlung des Berliner zoologischen Museums. M. Ber. k. preuss. Akad. Wiss. Berlin, 1874: 159-164 - get paper here
  • Rösler, H. 2000. Kommentierte Liste der rezent, subrezent und fossil bekannten Geckotaxa (Reptilia: Gekkonomorpha). Gekkota 2: 28-153
  • Tiedemann,F.; Häupl,M. & Grillitsch,H. 1994. Katalog der Typen der herpetologischen Sammlung nach dem Stand vom 1. Jänner 1994. Teil II: Reptilia. Kat. wiss. Samml. Naturhist. Mus. Wien 10 (Vertebrata 4): 1-110
  • Uetz, P.H.; Patel, M.; Gbadamosi, Z.; Nguyen, A.; Shoope, S. 2024. A Reference Database of Reptile Images. Taxonomy 4: 723–732 - get paper here
  • ZUG, G.R. 2013. Reptiles and Amphibians of the Pacific Islands. University of California Press, Berkeley, 306 pp. - get paper here
 
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