Pasteur's dwarf gecko

Pasteur's dwarf gecko (Lygodactylus arnoulti), also commonly known as Arnoult's gecko, is a species of gecko, a lizard in the family Gekkonidae. The species is native to Madagascar.

Etymology The specific name, arnoulti, is in honor of French ichthyologist Jacques Arnoult (1914–1995).Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. . (Lygodactylus arnoulti, p. 12).

Habitat The preferred natural habitats of L. arnoulti are grassland and savanna, at altitudes of .

Reproduction L. arnoulti is oviparous. www.reptile-database.org.

References

External links https://web.archive.org/web/20070929013959/http://www.zooinstitutes.com/Zoology/continents.asp?name=AFRICA

Further reading Glaw F, Vences M (2006). A Field Guide to Amphibians and Reptiles of Madagascar, Third Edition. Cologne, Germany: Vences & Glaw Verlag. 496 pp. . Pasteur G (1965). "Notes préliminaires sur les lygodactyles (gekkonidés). IV. Diagnoses de quelques formes africaines et malgaches ". Bulletin du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris 36: 311–314. (Lygodactylus arnoulti, new species). (in French). Röll B (2004). "Lygodactylus arnoulti Pasteur". Sauria Supplement 26 (3): 613–616. (in German). Rösler H (2000). "Kommentierte Liste der rezent, subrezent und fossil bekannten Geckotaxa (Reptilia: Gekkonomorpha)". Gekkota 2: 28–153. (Lygodactylus arnoulti, p. 92). (in German).