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Bavayia exsuccida

species of reptile

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 5, 2026
Entity authorityQ5082209 ↗
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Bavayia exsuccida, also known as the sclerophyll bavayia, is a species of geckos endemic to North Province, New Caledonia. As of 2022, it is known from only one locality, with an extent of occurrence of 8 km2 (3.1 sq mi).

The species name exsuccida derives from the Latin exsuccus, meaning "without juice" or "without sap", and refers the sclerophyll vegetation of the dry forests in which this species is found.

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“Bavayia exsuccida” enters the record as species of reptile. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Bavayia, exsuccida and species can confirm, complicate or overturn.

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This entry incorporates text from “Bavayia exsuccida” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.