Chatogekko
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Chatogekko is a genus of South American gecko
Gecko
Geckos are lizards belonging to the infraorder Gekkota, found in warm climates throughout the world. They range from 1.6 cm to 60 cm....

s. Its type and only species is C. amazonicus, a very small gecko. They grow to a maximum length of only 24 millimetre (0.94488188976378 in). They are found in leaf litter on the forest floor and prey on springtail
Springtail
Springtails form the largest of the three lineages of modern hexapods that are no longer considered insects...

s and mite
Mite
Mites, along with ticks, are small arthropods belonging to the subclass Acari and the class Arachnida. The scientific discipline devoted to the study of ticks and mites is called acarology.-Diversity and systematics:...

s.

The following cladogram
Cladogram
A cladogram is a diagram used in cladistics which shows ancestral relations between organisms, to represent the evolutionary tree of life. Although traditionally such cladograms were generated largely on the basis of morphological characters, DNA and RNA sequencing data and computational...

 represents phylogenetic relationships among sphaerodactyl
Sphaerodactylidae
Sphaerodactylidae are a family of geckos distributed in North and South America and the Caribbean as well as Southern Europe, North Africa, the Middle East and into Central Asia...

 gecko
Gecko
Geckos are lizards belonging to the infraorder Gekkota, found in warm climates throughout the world. They range from 1.6 cm to 60 cm....

s presented by Gamble et al. in 2011.
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