Lepidoblepharis hoogmoedi, also known commonly as Hoogmoed's scaly-eyed gecko and the spotted dwarf gecko, is a species of gecko, a lizard in the family Sphaerodactylidae. The species is native to northern South America.
Etymology The specific name, hoogmoedi, is in honor of Dutch herpetologist Marinus Steven Hoogmoed (born 1942).Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. . (Lepidoblepharis hoogmoedi, p. 125).
Geographic range L. hoogmoedi is found in northwestern Brazil (Amazonas) and northern Peru.
Habitat The preferred natural habitat of L. hoogmoedi is forest.
Description L. hoogmoedi may attain a snout-to-vent length (SVL) of .
Behavior L. hoogmoedi is diurnal and terrestrial, living in the leaf litter of the forest.
Reproduction L. hoogmoedi is oviparous.
References
Further reading Ávila-Pires TCS (1995). "Lizards of Brazilian Amazonia (Reptilia: Squamata)". Zoologische Verhandelingen, Leiden 299: 1–706. (Lepidoblepharis hoogmoedi, new species, pp. 294–298, Figures 95–97, 271). (in English, with abstracts in Portuguese and Spanish). Ribeiro-Júnior MA (2015). "Catalogue of distribution of lizards (Reptilia: Squamata) from the Brazilian Amazonia. II. Gekkonidae, Phyllodactylidae, Sphaerodactylidae". Zootaxa 3981 (1): 1–55. Ribeiro-Júnior M, Amaral S (2016). "Diversity, distribution, and conservation of lizards (Reptilia: Squamata) in the Brazilian Amazonia". Neotropical Biodiversity 2 (1): 195–421. Rösler H (2000). "Kommentierte Liste der rezent, subrezent und fossil bekannten Geckotaxa (Reptilia: Gekkonomorpha)". Gekkota 2: 28–153. ("Lepidoblepharis hoogmeedi [sic]", ex errore, p. 90). (in German).