Bougainville's scaly-toed gecko (Lepidodactylus mutahi) is a species of lizard in the family Gekkonidae. The species is endemic to Bougainville Island.
Etymology The specific name, mutahi, refers to the Mutahi area in northeastern Bougainville Island.Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. . (Lepidodactylus mutahi, p. 185).
Description Adults of Lepidodactylus mutahi have a snout-to-vent length (SVL) of . Adult males have a continuous series of 29–34 femoral/preanal/femoral pores extending almost from knee to knee.
Habitat The natural habitat of Lepidodactylus mutahi is forest, but it has also been found in artificial habitats such as gardens and banana plantations.
Reproduction Lepidodactylus mutahi is oviparous.
References
Further reading Brown, Walter C.; Parker, Fred (1977). "Lizards of the Genus Lepidodactylus (Gekkonidae) from the Indo-Australian Archipelago and the Islands of the Pacific, with Descriptions of New Species". Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences, Fourth Series 41 (8): 253–265. (Lepidodactylus mutahi, new species, pp. 259–260). 212 pp. (Lepidodactylus mutahi, p. 91). (in German).