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Cryptactites

Peringuey's leaf-toed gecko
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Subphylum: Vertebrata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Squamata
Suborder: Sauria
Infraorder: Gekkota
Family: Gekkonidae
Genus: Cryptactites
et al., 1997
Species: C. peringueyi
Binomial name
Cryptactites peringueyi
(Boulenger, 1910)
Synonyms
  • Phyllodactylus peringueyi
    Boulenger, 1910
  • Cryptactites peringueyi
    — Bauer et al., 1997

Peringuey's leaf-toed gecko, Cryptactites peringueyi, is a South African species of gecko named after French entomologist Louis Péringuey.

It is particularly tiny, not growing more than about 5 centimetres (2.0 in) in total length (including tail), making it the smallest lizard in the region, along with the striped dwarf leaf-toed gecko of the Western Cape.

It has a red-brown body sometimes with thin, pale dark stripes.

This leaf-toed gecko is nocturnal and lives in matted marsh vegetation where it lays two minute eggs in summer.

It is endemic to South Africa, being restricted to a few salt marshes in the Eastern Cape.

It was believed to be extinct for a long time, but a tiny population was rediscovered in 1992 by the estuary of the Kromme river.



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