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Brooks's Wolf Gecko
Brooks's wolf gecko (''Luperosaurus brooksii)'' is a species of lizard in the Family (biology), family Gekkonidae. The species is Endemism, endemic to Sumatra. Etymology The Specific name (zoology), specific name, ''brooksii'', is in honor of British metallurgical chemist Cecil Joslin Brooks, who collected natural history specimens in Borneo and Sumatra.species:Bo Beolens, Beolens, Bo; species:Michael Watkins, Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011). ''The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles''. Baltimore: Johns Hopins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. . ("''Luperosaurus brooksi'' [sic]", p. 40). Habitat The preferred natural habitat of ''L. brooksii'' is forest. Behavior ''L. brooksii'' is Arboreal locomotion, arboreal, living in the forest Canopy (biology), canopy. Reproduction ''L. brooksii'' is Oviparity, oviparous. References Further reading *George Albert Boulenger, Boulenger GA (1920). "Descriptions of a new Gecko and a new Snake from Sumatra". ''Annals and Magazine of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Djoko Iskandar
Djoko Tjahjono Iskandar (born 1950) is an Indonesian herpetologist who studies the amphibians of Southeast Asia and Australasia. He is a professor of biosystematics and ecology at Bandung Institute of Technology in West Java, Indonesia. Iskandar has been the first to describe many species of amphibian, including the Bornean flat-headed frog ('' Barbourula kalimantanensis'') in 1978, and, in 2014, '' Limnonectes larvaepartus'', the only known frog that directly births tadpoles. He is the author of ''The Amphibians of Java and Bali''. The monotypic banded watersnake genus '' Djokoiskandarus'' is named in his honour, as are several species of lizard and frog A frog is any member of a diverse and largely semiaquatic group of short-bodied, tailless amphibian vertebrates composing the order (biology), order Anura (coming from the Ancient Greek , literally 'without tail'). Frog species with rough ski .... Taxa named in his honour *'' Djokoiskandarus annulatus'' (2011) *'' Polyped ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |