Critically Endangered
Barbados Leaf-toed Gecko
Phyllodactylus pulcher
The Barbados leaf-toed gecko is a gecko endemic to the Caribbean island-nation of Barbados.
Appearance
It has a maximum snout-to-vent length of 62 mm. It has a cream ground color, with a dark line extending from its nostril, through its eye, to its shoulder. Its dorsal surface has variable markings: either brown mottling, broad brown crossbands, or longitudinal brown lines.
Range and habitat
The Barbados leaf-toed gecko is a gecko endemic to the Caribbean island-nation of Barbados. It is considered rare, with few known localities, but its range has not yet been systematically studied. This once presumed extinct species was rediscovered in 2011 on the outcrop known as Culpepper Island by Damon Gerard Corrie, the founder and first president of the Barbados Herpetological Society.
Pins are Wikidata “endemic to” fields. Orange dots, when present, are GBIF occurrence tiles — survey bias included.
Habits
It is presumed nocturnal, arboreal, and insectivorous.
In crisis
Barbados Leaf-toed Gecko is Critically Endangered on this catalog because that is the IUCN category stored on Wikidata. Confirm the official criteria and any later count on iucnredlist.org.
Sources
Written for this catalog from the English Wikipedia article on Barbados Leaf-toed Gecko, Wikidata item Q3021805. Family and order context is original field-guide writing about the group, not a copied assessment of this one species. Wikipedia text is CC BY-SA. Not an IUCN assessment. Counts, when quoted, can change — confirm them on the recovery programme and on iucnredlist.org.
