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Lepidodactylus lugubris measure 8.5–10 cm in length including tail (4–4.4 cm snout-to-vent). [1] [2] L. lugubris is cryptically coloured, typically light to dark tan with dark spots down the length of its back and a brown strip from the ear to the tip of the nose. [1]
Mindanao false gecko, dark-spotted smooth-scaled gecko Lepidodactylus listeri (Boulenger, 1889) Christmas Island chained gecko, Lister's gecko Lepidodactylus lombocensis: Mertens, 1929 (no common name) Lepidodactylus lugubris (A.M.C. Duméril & Bibron, 1836) mourning gecko, common smooth-scaled gecko Lepidodactylus magnus: W.C. Brown & F ...
Genus Gonatodes (yellow-headed gecko) [2] Genus Hemidactylus (common house gecko) [2] Genus Lepidoblepharis (Costa Rica scaly-eyed gecko) [2] Genus Sphaerodactylus (yellow-tailed dwarf gecko, spotted dwarf gecko) [2] Genus Lepidodactylus (mourning gecko) [3]
Some of these, like the mourning gecko Lepidodactylus lugubris, Indo-Pacific house gecko Hemidactylus garnotii, the hybrid whiptails Cnemidophorus, Caucasian rock lizards Darevskia, and the brahminy blindsnake, Indotyphlops braminus are unisexual and obligately parthenogenetic.
Terrestrial reptiles include three geckos and a blind-snake, all of which may have been inadvertently transported to the islands by humans: Gekkonidae. Mourning gecko, Lepidodactylus lugubris; Four-clawed gecko, Gehyra mutilata; House gecko, Hemidactylus frenatus; Typhlopidae. Blind snake, Typhlops braminus; Marine reptiles include: Hydrophiidae
The family Gekkonidae is a member of the infraorder Gekkota, which seems to have first emerged during the Jurassic period (201-145 million years ago). Eichstaettisaurus schroederi is recognized as one of the earliest examples of an ancestral gecko species.
Parthenogenesis is a mode of asexual reproduction in which offspring are produced by females without the genetic contribution of a male. Among all the sexual vertebrates, the only examples of true parthenogenesis, in which all-female populations reproduce without the involvement of males, are found in squamate reptiles (snakes and lizards). [1]
Many smaller breeders have gone out of business, concentrating the market around larger international companies, such as Charles River Laboratories. [ 2 ] [ failed verification ] After Shamrock Farm closed in 2000, there were no commercial importers of laboratory primates left in the UK.