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Phyllodactylus homolepidurus SMITH, 1935

IUCN Red List - Phyllodactylus homolepidurus - Least Concern, LC
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Higher TaxaPhyllodactylidae, Gekkota, Sauria, Squamata (lizards: geckos)
Subspecies 
Common NamesE: Sonoran Leaf-toed Gecko
S: Salamanquesa de Sonora 
SynonymPhyllodactylus homolepidurus SMITH 1935: 121
Phyllodactylus homolepidurus — SMITH & TAYLOR 1950: 48
Phyllodactylus homolepidurus homolepidurus — DIXON 1964: 40
Phyllodactylus homolepidurus — WERMUTH 1965: 137
Phyllodactylus homolepidurus homolepidurus — HARDY 1969: 111
Phyllodactylus homolepidurus — KLUGE 1993
Phyllodactylus homolepidurus — LINER 1994
Phyllodactylus homolepidurus — RÖSLER 2000: 104 
DistributionMexico (Sinaloa, S Sonora)

Type locality: 5 miles southwest of Hermosillo, Sonora.  
Reproductionoviparous 
TypesHolotype: FMNH (= CNHM, was EHT 146) 10011, adult male 
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CommentGrismer (1999) synonymized Phyllodactylus homolepidurus nolascoensis with Phyllodactylus homolepidurus without giving specific reasons.

Subspecies: Phyllodactylus homolepidurus nolascoensis has been elevated to full species status.

Culture: Phyllodactylus used to be considered by the Mexicans to be very poisonous, so much so that even touching one is believed to cause sickness or death. The Mexicans frequently attribute infant mortality to this lizard (Zweifel & Norris 1955). 
EtymologyDerived from the Latin word homo, meaning “equal, uniform,” and lepido, meaning “scale,” in reference to the similar sizes of scales on the body of this taxon (LEMOS ESPINAL ET AL. 2015). 
References
  • Dixon, J. R. 1964. The systematics and distribution of lizards of the genus Phyllodactylus in North and Central America. New Mexico State Univ. Sci. Bull. 64: 1-139 - get paper here
  • Enderson, Erik F.; Thomas R. Van Devender, Robert L. Bezy 2014. Amphibians and reptiles of Yécora, Sonora and the Madrean Tropical Zone of the Sierra Madre Occidental in northwestern Mexico. Check List 10 (4): 913-926 - get paper here
  • Goldberg, Stephen R. 2008. Note on Reproduction of the Sonoran Leaf-toed Gecko, Phyllodactylus homolepidurus (Squamata: Gekkonidae) from Sonora, Mexico. Bull. Maryland Herp. Soc. 44 (2): 46-48 - get paper here
  • Grismer, L. Lee. 1999. An evolutionary classification of reptiles on islands in the Gulf of California, México. Herpetologica 55 (4): 446-469 - get paper here
  • Hardy, L.M., & McDiarmid, R.W. 1969. The amphibians and reptiles of Sinaloa, Mexico. Univ. Kansas Publ. Mus. Nat. Hist. 18 (3): 39-252. - get paper here
  • Jones, L.L. & Lovich, R.E. 2009. Lizards of the American Southwest. A photographic field guide. Rio Nuevo Publishers, Tucson, AZ, 568 pp. [review in Reptilia 86: 84] - get paper here
  • Lemos-Espinal JA, Smith GR 2020. A checklist of the amphibians and reptiles of Sinaloa, Mexico with a conservation status summary and comparisons with neighboring states. ZooKeys 931: 85-114 - get paper here
  • Lemos-Espinal JA, Smith GR, Rorabaugh JC 2019. A conservation checklist of the amphibians and reptiles of Sonora, Mexico, with updated species lists. ZooKeys 829: 131-160 - get paper here
  • Nevárez-de los Reyes; Manuel, David Lazcano, Javier Banda-Leal and Ian Recchio 2014. Notes on Mexican Herpetofauna 22: Herpetofauna of the Continental Portion of the Municipality of Hermosillo, Sonora, Mexico. Bull. Chicago Herp. Soc. 49(8):105-115 - get paper here
  • Ramírez-Reyes, T., Blair, C., Flores-Villela, O., Piñero, D., Lathrop, A., Murphy, R. 2020. Phylogenomics and molecular species delimitation reveals great cryptic diversity of leaf-toed geckos (Phyllodactylidae: Phyllodactylus), ancient origins, and diversification in Mexico. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution (2020), doi: - get paper here
  • Rösler, H. 2000. Kommentierte Liste der rezent, subrezent und fossil bekannten Geckotaxa (Reptilia: Gekkonomorpha). Gekkota 2: 28-153
  • Smith, H.M. 1935. Miscellaneous notes on Mexican lizards. Univ. Kansas Sci. Bull. 22: 119-156 - get paper here
  • Smith, H.M. & Taylor,E.H. 1950. An annotated checklist and key to the reptiles of Mexico exclusive of the snakes. Bull. US Natl. Mus. 199: 1-253 - get paper here
  • Smith, Hobart M. 1939. An annotated list of the Mexican amphibians and reptiles in the Carnegie Museum. Annals of the Carnegie Museum 27: 311-320
  • Taylor, Edward Harrison 1938. Notes on the herpetological fauna of the Mexican state of Sonora. Univ. Kansas Sci. Bull. 24 (19): 475-503 [1936] - get paper here
  • Zweifel,R.G. and Norris,K.S. 1955. Contributions to the herpetology of Sonora, Mexico:Descriptions of new subspecies of snakes (Micruroides euryxanthus and Lampropeltis getulus) and miscellaneous collecting notes. American Midland Naturalist 54: 230-249 - get paper here
 
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