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Woodford's scaly-toed gecko

species of reptile

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMay 20, 2026
Entity authorityQ3229909 ↗
Source-derived summary

Woodford's scaly-toed gecko (Lepidodactylus woodfordi) is a species of lizard in the family Gekkonidae. The species is native to Papua New Guinea and the Solomon Islands.

Etymology

The specific name, woodfordi, is in honor of British naturalist Charles Morris Woodford.

Reproduction

L. woodfordi is oviparous.

References

Further reading

Boulenger GA (1887). "Second Contribution to the Herpetology of the Solomon Islands". Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1887: 333–338 + Plate XXVIII. (Lepidodactylus woodfordi, new species, p. 334 + Plate XXVIII, figures 1, 1a).

de Rooij N (1915). The Reptiles of the Indo-Australian Archipelago.

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This entry incorporates text from “Woodford's scaly-toed gecko” 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.