Gekko browni (Russell, 1979)

Figueroa, Alex, Low, Martyn E. Y. & Lim, Kelvin K. P., 2023, Singapore’s herpetofauna: updated and annotated checklist, history, conservation, and distribution, Zootaxa 5287 (1), pp. 1-378 : 104-105

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.5287.1.1

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7967812

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scientific name

Gekko browni (Russell, 1979)
status

 

Gekko browni (Russell, 1979) View in CoL — Native; Indeterminate.

Luperosaurus browni Russell, 1979: 282–285 , fig. 1. Holotype: FMNH 185106 About FMNH , by original designation. Type locality: “ Ulu Gombak forest reserve 35.4 km north of Kuala Lumpur, Selangor, West Malaysia ”.

Brown’s Flap-legged Gecko

( Figure 12F View FIGURE 12 )

Singapore records.

Luperosaurus browni —K.K.P. Lim & N.T.-L. Lim, 2006: 107 (Batu Koyok [ PT]).—N. Lim, 2006: 5.—N. Baker & K.P. Lim, 2008: 83, 160.—K.K.P. Lim et al., 2008: 172, 265.— Das, 2010: 223.—H.T.W. Tan et al., 2010: 67.—L.L. Grismer, 2011b: 516, 517.—N. Baker & K.P. Lim, 2012: 83, 160.— L.K. Wang et al., 2012: 250.—K.K.P. Lim et al., 2016: 177.

Luperosaurus ” —P.K.L. Ng et al., 2011: 323.

Remarks. Gekko browni previously belonged to the genus Luperosaurus until a recent paper transferred the entire genus to Gekko (Wood 2019) . Eleven of the 12 species that once made up Luperosaurus are considered extremely rare, each being known from less than four specimens ( Grismer 2011b). The occurrence of G. browni in Singapore is known only from one specimen collected on 4 August 2005 at Batu Koyok, Pulau Tekong ( Fig. 12F View FIGURE 12 ) ( Lim & Lim 2006). The individual was an adult male that was found clinging to the stem of a plant ca. 1 m off the ground, and represented the second record for the Malay Peninsula ( Lim & Lim 2006). The first specimen was the holotype described by Russell (1979), which was collected by Inger at Ulu Gombak, Selangor on 8 May 1970. Since then, one more record of G. browni was made for the Malay Peninsula at Tapah, Pahang, Peninsular Malaysia ( Grismer 2011b). Gekko browni possesses interdigital webbing that may serve as an adaptation for a highly arboreal lifestyle (Russell 1979).

Occurrence. Only known from one specimen from PT. rare .

Singapore conservation status. Critically Endangered.

Conservation priority. Highest.

IUCN conservation status. Least Concern [2019].

LKCNHM & NHMUK Museum specimens. Pulau Tekong: ZRC.2.6140 (04-Aug-2005) .

Additional Singapore museum specimens. No specimens.

Singapore localities. Pulau Tekong.

NHMUK

Natural History Museum, London

ZRC

Zoological Reference Collection, National University of Singapore

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Reptilia

Order

Squamata

Family

Gekkonidae

Genus

Gekko

Loc

Gekko browni (Russell, 1979)

Figueroa, Alex, Low, Martyn E. Y. & Lim, Kelvin K. P. 2023
2023
Loc

Luperosaurus browni

Russell 1979: 282 - 285
1979
Loc

Gecko

Linnaeus 1758
1758
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