Bauer's chameleon gecko (Eurydactylodes agricolae) is a nocturnal species of lizard in the family Diplodactylinae. The species is endemic to Grande Terre in New Caledonia.
Etymology The specific name, agricolae, is in honor of American herpetologist Aaron Matthew Bauer. The German noun, Bauer, means "farmer" in English, which becomes agricola (genitive singular, agricolae) when translated into Latin.Beolens B, Watkins M, Grayson M (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. . (Eurydactylodes agricolae, p. 19).
Habitat The preferred natural habitats of the arboreal E. agricolae are forest and shrubland, at altitudes up to .
Description E. agricolae may attain a snout-to-vent length (SVL) of .
Reproduction E. agricolae is oviparous.
References
Further reading Henkel FW, Böhme W (2001). "A new carphodactyline gecko of the New Caledonian genus Eurydactylodes (Sauria: Gekkonidae". Salamandra 37 (3): 149–156. (Eurydactylodes agricolae, new species). (in English, with an abstract in German).