Brooks' Wolf Gecko

About the Brooks' Wolf Gecko

Brooks's wolf gecko (Luperosaurus brooksii) is a species of lizard in the family Gekkonidae. The species is endemic to Sumatra. The specific name, brooksii, is in honor of British metallurgical chemist Cecil Joslin Brooks, who collected natural history specimens in Borneo and Sumatra.

The preferred natural habitat of L. brooksii is forest. L. brooksii is arboreal, living in the forest canopy. L. brooksii is oviparous. Boulenger GA (1920). "Descriptions of a new Gecko and a new Snake from Sumatra". Annals and Magazine of Natural History. Ninth Series. 5 (27): 281–283. doi:10.1080/00222932008632378. (Gecko brooksii, new species, pp. 281–282)

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