Bavayia sauvagii

Bavayia sauvagii
Conservation status
	; Endangered (IUCN 3.1)
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Reptilia
Order:	Squamata
Family:	Diplodactylidae
Genus:	Bavayia
Species:	B. sauvagii
Binomial name
	Bavayia sauvagii; (Boulenger, 1883)
Synonyms
	Lepidodactylus sauvagii ; Boulenger, 1883; Bavayia sauvagei [sic] ; — Roux, 1913; Bavayia sauvagii ; — Sadlier, 1989;

Bavayia sauvagii, also known commonly as Sauvage's bavayia and Sauvage's New Caledonian gecko, is a species of lizard in the family Diplodactylidae. The species is endemic to New Caledonia.

Etymology

The specific name, sauvagii, is in honor of Henri Émile Sauvage, who was a French paleontologist, ichthyologist, and herpetologist.^[3]

B. sauvagii is found on Grande Terre, Île des Pins, and Maré Island including their neighboring islets in New Caledonia.^[2]

The preferred natural habitats of B. sauvagii are forest and shrubland, at an altitude of 900 m (3,000 ft).^[1]

B. sauvagii is oviparous.^[2]

^ ^a ^b Sadlier, R.A., Bauer, A.M., Jourdan , H., Astrongatt, S., Deuss, M., Duval, T., Bourguet, E., McCoy, S., Bouteiller, A. & Lagrange, A. (2021). "Bavayia sauvagii ". The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2021: e.T176191A123256289. https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/176191/123256289 Archived 2021-09-06 at the Wayback Machine. Downloaded on 06 September 2021.
^ ^a ^b ^c Species Bavayia sauvagii at The Reptile Database
^ Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. ISBN 978-1-4214-0135-5. (Bavayia sauvagii, p. 233).

Boulenger GA (1883). "On the Geckos of New Caledonia". Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1883: 116-130 + Plates XXI-XXII. (Lepidodactylus sauvagii, new species, p. 122 + Plate XXII, figures 5, 5a).
Rösler H (2000). "Kommentierte Liste der rezent, subrezent und fossil bekannten Geckotaxa (Reptilia: Gekkonomorpha)". Gekkota 2: 28-153. (Bavayia sauvagii, p. 60). (in German).

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