The Chilean marked gecko (''Garthia gaudichaudii'') is a

species In biology, a species is the basic unit of classification and a taxonomic rank of an organism, as well as a unit of biodiversity. A species is often defined as the largest group of organisms in which any two individuals of the appropriate s ...

of gecko

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to the

Chilean matorral The Chilean Matorral (NT1201) is a terrestrial ecoregion of central Chile, located on the west coast of South America. It is in the Mediterranean forests, woodlands, and scrub biome, part of the Neotropical realm. Matorral is typically charac ...

ecoregion, found chiefly in the nation of

Chile Chile, officially the Republic of Chile, is a country in the western part of South America. It is the southernmost country in the world, and the closest to Antarctica, occupying a long and narrow strip of land between the Andes to the east a ...

(Hogan & World Wildlife Fund 2013). The common name for this species is Chilean marked gecko.

Taxonomy

This organism was first described by André Marie Constant Duméril and Gabriel Bibron in the year 1836 as a new species of lizard, ''Gymnodactylus gaudichaudii''. Over the years the species has been assigned to several different genera by various authorities. Most recently, it has been placed in the genus '' Garthia''.

Etymology

The specific name, ''gaudichaudii'', is in honor of French botanist

Charles Gaudichaud-Beaupré Charles Gaudichaud-Beaupré (September 4, 1789 – January 16, 1854) was a French botanist. Biography Gaudichaud was born in Angoulême, to J-J. Gaudichaud and Rose (Mallat) Gaudichaud. He studied pharmacology informally at Cognac and Angoulême, ...

.Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011). ''The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles''. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. . (''Homonota gaudichaudii'', p. 99).

References

External links

*Hogan, C. Michael, & World Wildlife Fund (2013)
Chilean matorral. ed. M.McGinley. Encyclopedia of Earth. National Council for Science and the Environment
Washington DC *Encyclopedia of Life (2013)
''Homonota gaudichaudii''

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