Rhacodactylus Chahoua

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Mossy New Caledonian gecko

Prehensile-Tail Mossy Gecko, Rhacodactylus chahoua

Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Reptilia
Order:	Squamata
Family:	Gekkonidae
Genus:	Rhacodactylus
Species:	*R. chahoua*

Binomial name

Rhacodactylus chahoua
Bavay, 1869

Rhacodactylus chahoua commonly known as the Mossy New Caledonian gecko or short-snouted New Caledonian gecko, is an arboreal gecko found natively on the southern portion of the island of New Caledonia and on the outlying islands of Ile de Pines and Grande Terre. R. chahoua is currently being evaluated by CITES as a possible candidate for protective status. R. chahoua was first described by Bavay in 1869.

R. chahoua gets its common name from the moss or lichen-like pattern it displays. Colors range from rusty red and brown to green or gray. There has been some notation that color could possibly be a geographic indicator in this species as the geckos from the outer islands most often display the lighter gray patterns. It commonly reaches a snout to vent length (SVL) of 5.5 inches.

R. chahoua, like all of the Rhacodactylus geckos are omnivores. Their diet in the wild consists of various insects and fruits. They may also consume small lizards as part of their diet.

R. chahoua lays two well calcified eggs that become adhered to one another shortly after laying. This is known as "egg gluing". R. chahoua is the only Rhacodactylus gecko that lays adhering eggs. The eggs are generally laid on top of the substrate (generally behind loose tree bark) and are guarded by the female. The eggs hatch 60-90 days after laying.

This gecko is seen in the herpetology trade but rarely. A male-female pair may be kept in a terrarium with a minimum size of 24x18x18, but as with all arboreal geckos, the taller the better.

Scientific classification or biological classification is a method by which biologists group and categorize species of organisms. Scientific classification also can be called scientific taxonomy, but should be distinguished from folk taxonomy, which lacks scientific basis.
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Chordata
Bateson, 1885

Typical Classes

See below

Chordates (phylum Chordata) are a group of animals that includes the vertebrates, together with several closely related invertebrates.
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Sauropsida*
Goodrich, 1916

Subclasses

Anapsida
Diapsida

Synonyms

Reptilia Laurenti, 1768

Reptiles are tetrapods and amniotes, animals whose embryos are surrounded by an amniotic membrane, and members of the class
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Squamata
Oppel, 1811

black: range of Squamata

Suborders
see text

This article is about the Squamata order of reptiles. For the Roman scale armour see: Lorica squamata.

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Gekkonidae
Gray, 1825

Subfamilies

Aeluroscalabotinae
Eublepharinae
Gekkoninae
Teratoscincinae
Diplodactylinae

Geckos are small to average sized lizards belonging to the family Gekkonidae
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Rhacodactylus

Species
See text.
Rhacodactylus is a genus of medium to large geckos of the subfamily Diplodactylinae. All species in this genus are found on the islands that make up New Caledonia.
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binomial nomenclature is the formal system of naming species. The system is also called binominal nomenclature (particularly in zoological circles), binary nomenclature (particularly in botanical circles), or the binomial classification system.
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Arboreal is a word meaning "related to or resembling trees". Its meaning comes from the Latin arbor, meaning tree.

In biology, an arboreal animal is one which inhabits or spends large amounts of time in trees or bushes.
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Anthem
La Marseillaise

Capital NoumÃ©a
Largest city NoumÃ©a
Official languages French
Government Overseas territory of France
- President of France Nicolas Sarkozy
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Grande Terre may refer to the following:

The main island of New Caledonia.
The largest of the Kerguelen Islands.

There is also an area of Guadeloupe known as Grande-Terre.
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CITES (the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora) is an international agreement between governments, drafted as a result of a resolution adopted in 1963 at a meeting of members of the World Conservation Union (IUCN).
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MOSS may refer to:

Market Oriented Sector Selective talks, trade negotiations held between the United States and Japan in 1984
Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007, the current version of what used to be known as SharePoint Portal Server

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Lichens (IPA: /ˈlaɪkən/)^[1] are symbiotic associations of a fungus (the mycobiont) with a photosynthetic partner (the photobiont also known as the phycobiont) that can produce food for the lichen from
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Geography - (from the Greek words Geo (γη) or Gaea (γαία), both meaning "Earth", and graphein (γράφειν) meaning "to describe" or "to write"
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species is one of the basic units of biological classification. A species is often defined as a group of organisms capable of interbreeding and producing fertile offspring.
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An omnivore (from Latin: omne all, everything; vorare to devour) is a species of animal that eats both plants and animals as its primary food source.
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Insecta
Linnaeus, 1758

Orders
Subclass Apterygota

* Archaeognatha (bristletails)

* Thysanura (silverfish)

Subclass Pterygota

* Infraclass Paleoptera (Probably paraphyletic)

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Lacertilia*
GÃ¼nther, 1867

Families

Many, see text.

Lizards are reptiles of the order Squamata, normally possessing four legs, external ear openings and movable eyelids.
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In nutrition, the diet is the sum of food consumed by a person or other organism. Dietary habits are the habitual decisions an individual or culture makes when choosing what foods to eat.
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tree is a perennial woody plant. It is sometimes defined as a woody plant that attains diameter of 10 cm (30 cm girth) or more at breast height (130 cm above ground).
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Herpetology (from greek: 'ερπετόν, "creeping animal" and λόγος, logos, "knowledge") is the branch of zoology concerned with the study of reptiles and amphibians.
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vivarium (plural: vivariums or vivaria) is an area, usually enclosed, for keeping and raising animals or plants for observation or research. Often, a portion of the ecosystem for a particular species is simulated on a smaller scale, with controls for environmental
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