Leopold dtella explained

The Leopold dtella (Gehyra leopoldi) is a species of gecko, a lizard in the family Gekkonidae. The species is endemic to Southeast Asia and Oceania.

Etymology

The specific name leopoldi, is in honor of Leopold III, King of the Belgians.^[1]

Geographic range

G. leopoldi is found in Indonesia and New Guinea.

Reproduction

G. leopoldi is oviparous.

Further reading

• Brongersma, Leo (1930). "Sur un Geckonidae nouveau, Gehyra leopoldi, nov. sp., de la Nouvelle-Guinée ". Bulletin du Musée royal d'histoire naturelle de Belgique 6 (11): 1–3. (Gehyra leopoldi, new species). (in French).
• Chrapliwy, Pete S.; Smith, Hobart M.; Grant, Chapman (1961). "Systematic Status of the Geckonid Lizard Genera Gehyra, Peropus, *Hoplodactylus and Naultinus ". Herpetologica 17 (1): 5–12. (Peropus leopoldi, new combination).
• Rösler, Herbert; Glaw, Frank; Günther, Rainer (2005). "Aktualisierte Liste der Geckos von Neuguinea (Sauria: Gekkonidae: Gekkoninae) mit vorläufiger Charakterisierung von neun Formen aus den Gattungen Cyrtodactylus Gray, 1827, Gehyra Gray, 1834 und Nactus Kluge, 1983 ". Gekkota 5: 33–64. (in German, with an abstract in English).

Notes and References

1. Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. . (Gehyra leopoldi, p. 155).