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Encyclopedia > Phelsuma abbotti abbotti
Geckos
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Squamata
Suborder: Sauria
Family: Gekkonidae
Subfamily: Gekkoninae
Genus: Phelsuma
Species: abbotti
Binomial name
Phelsuma abbotti
Trinomial name
Phelsuma abbotti abbotti

The Aldabra Island day gecko, or the Aldabra day gecko (Phelsuma abbotti abbotti), has been found on the Aldabra Atoll (Seychelles), Nosy Bé and Northwest Madagascar. It lives on low trees and bushes and eats insects and fruit.


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Gardner, A.S. (1984) The evolutionary ecology and population systematics of daygekko's (phelsuma) in the Seychelles.
Loveridge, A. (1942) Revision of the Afro oriental geckos of the genus Phelsuma.
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The one exception is Phelsuma andamanense, which is endemic to the Andaman islands in the Bay of Bengal.
The genus Phelsuma was first described by the British zoologist John Edward Gray in 1825 and named after the Dutch physician Murk van Phelsum.
Two Phelsuma species (Phelsuma gigas and Phelsuma edwardnewtoni) are now considered to be extinct, probably because of destruction of their environment by human settlers and their domestic animals.
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