Altiphylax mintoni

Altiphylax mintoni, also known commonly as Minton's thin-toed gecko or the plump swati gecko, is a species of lizard in the family Gekkonidae. The species is endemic to South Asia.

Altiphylax mintoni
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Squamata
Family: Gekkonidae
Genus: Altiphylax
Species:
A. mintoni
Binomial name
Altiphylax mintoni
(Golubev & Szczerbak, 1981)
Synonyms[1]
  • Gymnodactylus mintoni
    Golubev & Szczerbak, 1981
  • Tenuidactylus mintoni
    — Szczerbak & Golubev, 1984
  • Gonydactylus mintoni
    — Kluge, 1991
  • Cyrtodactylus mintoni
    — Kluge, 1993
  • Cyrtopodion mintoni
    — Rösler, 2000
  • Siwaligekko mintoni
    — Khan, 2003
  • Altiphylax mintoni
    — Sindaco & Jeremčenko, 2008

Etymology

The specific name, mintoni, is in honor of American herpetologist Sherman A. Minton.[2]

Geographic range

A. mintoni is found in northern Pakistan.[1]

Reproduction

A. mintoni is oviparous.[1]

References
  1. Species Altiphylax mintoni at The Reptile Database . www.reptile-database.org.
  2. Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. ISBN 978-1-4214-0135-5. (Cyrtopodion mintoni, p. 179).

Further reading
  • Golubev ML, Sczerbak NN (1981). "[A new species of the genus Gymnodactylus Spix, 1825 (Reptilia, Sauria, Gekkonidae) from Pakistan]". Vestnik Zoologii, Kiev 1981 (3): 40–45. (Gymnodactylus mintoni, new species). (in Russian).
  • Khan MS (2005). "An Overview of the Angular-toed geckos of Pakistan (Squamata: Gekkonidae)". Gekko 4 (2): 20–30.
  • Rösler H (2000). "Kommentierte Liste der rezent, subrezent und fossil bekannten Geckotaxa (Reptilia: Gekkonomorpha)". Gekkota 2: 28-153. (Cyrtopodion mintoni, new combination, p. 74). (in German).


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