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Phyllodactylus baurii GARMAN, 1892

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Higher TaxaPhyllodactylidae, Gekkota, Sauria, Squamata (lizards: geckos)
Subspecies 
Common NamesE: Baur's Leaf-toed Gecko 
SynonymPhyllodactylus baurii GARMAN 1892: 82
Phyllodactylus bauri — HELLER 1901: 65
Phyllodactylus bauri — VAN DENBURGH 1912: 426
Phyllodactylus baurii — BURT & MYERS 1942
Phyllodactylus baurii — WERMUTH 1965
Phyllodactylus baurii — LANZA 1973: 154
Phyllodactylus baurii — KLUGE 1993
Phyllodactylus baurii — RÖSLER 2000: 103
Phyllodactylus bauri — SWASH & STILL 2000
Phyllodactylus baurii — TORRES-CARVAJAL et al. 2014
Phyllodactylus baurii — TORRES-CARVAJAL et al. 2016
Phyllodactylus baurii — TORRES-CARVAJAL et al. 2025 
DistributionEcuador: Galapagos (Hood, Charles, Champion, Enderby)

Type locality: Las Cuevas, Charles Island, Galapagos - Archipelago  
Reproductionoviparous 
TypesSyntypes: MCZ 9433, BMNH 1946.8.24.11-32 
DiagnosisDiagnosis: Limbs without enlarged tubercles; back with distinct rows of enlarged tubercles; no median series of broad subcaudals; large dorsal tubercles not set close together in the rows, in five or six rows on each side of back; snout longer than in P. galapagoensis; two, or very rarely three, postmentals touching mental; occiput with few or no enlarged tubercles; tubercles of dorsal rows rarely continued on neck anterior to insertion of fore limbs. (Van Denburgh 1912)


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CommentSubspecies: Phyllodactylus baurii gorii LANZA 1973 has been elevated to full species status by TORRES-CARVAJAL et al. 2014. 
EtymologyNamed after Georg Herman Carl Ludwig Baur (1859-1898), German biologist, who also worked at Yale (1884-1890) and other places in the United States. 
References
  • Arteaga, A.; Bustamante, L.; Vieira, J. 2024. Reptiles of Ecuador. Khamai Foundation & Tropical Herping, 1073 pp. - get paper here
  • Beolens, Bo; Michael Watkins, and Michael Grayson 2011. The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, USA - get paper here
  • Burt, Charles E. & Myers, George S. 1942. Neotropical lizards in the collection of the Natural History Museum of Stanford University. Stanford University Press, 52 pp.
  • Corti, C. 2013. To Benedetto Lanza, 89 yrs, President of the SEH from 1985 to 1993. Amphibia-Reptilia 34 (3): 295-303 - get paper here
  • Garman, S. 1892. The reptiles of the Galapagos Islands. From the collections of Dr. Geo. Baur. Bull. Essex Institute 24: 73-87 - get paper here
  • Heller, Edmund 1901. Papers from the Hopkins Stanford Galapagos Expedition, 1898-1899. WIV. Reptiles. Proc. Washington Academy Sci. 14: 39-98 - get paper here
  • Kluge A G 1993. Gekkonoid Lizard Taxonomy. International Gecko Society, San Diego, 245 pp.
  • Lanza, B. 1973. On some Phyllodactylus from the Galapagos Islands (Reptilia Gekkonidae). Publicato a Cura del Museo Zoologico dell’Università di Firenze, pp. 1-25.
  • Rösler, H. 2000. Kommentierte Liste der rezent, subrezent und fossil bekannten Geckotaxa (Reptilia: Gekkonomorpha). Gekkota 2: 28-153
  • Swash, A. & Still, R. 2000. Birds, Mammals and Reptiles of the Galapagos Islands. Pica Press, 168 pp.
  • Torres-Carvajal O, Castaño PA, Rincón E, Ayala-Varela F, Campbell K, Cabrera W, et al. 2025. Phylogeny, phylogeography, and conservation of a rediscovered gecko from the Galápagos Islands. PLoS One 20(6): e0324659 - get paper here
  • Torres-Carvajal O, Pazmiño-Otamendi G, Salazar-Valenzuela D. 2019. Reptiles of Ecuador: a resource-rich portal, with a dynamic checklist and photographic guides. Amphibian & Reptile Conservation 13 (1): [General Section]: 209–229 (e178) - get paper here
  • Torres-Carvajal, O., Barnes, C. W., Pozo-Andrade, M. J., Tapia, W. and Nicholls, G. 2014. Older than the islands: origin and diversification of Galápagos leaf-toed geckos (Phyllodactylidae: Phyllodactylus) by multiple colonizations. J. Biogeogr., 41: 1883–1894. doi:10.1111/jbi.12375 - get paper here
  • Torres-Carvajal, Omar, Andrea Rodríguez-Guerra, Jaime A. Chaves 2016. Present diversity of Galápagos leaf-toed geckos (Phyllodactylidae: Phyllodactylus) stems from three independent colonization event. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 103: 1-5 - get paper here
  • Torres-Carvajal, Omar; Paula A. Castaño; Francisco Moreno 2021. Comparative Phylogeography of Floreana's Lizards Supports Galápagos Pleistocene Paleogeographical Model and Informs Conservation Management Decisions. Journal of Herpetology 55 (3): 285-291 - get paper here
  • Van Denburgh, John 1912. Expedition of the California Academy of Sciences to the Galapagos Islands, 1905-1906. VI. The geckos of the Galapagos Archipelago. Proc. Cal. Acad. Sci. 1: 405-430 - 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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