Misplaced Pages

Smith's leaf-toed gecko

Article snapshot taken from Wikipedia with creative commons attribution-sharealike license. Give it a read and then ask your questions in the chat. We can research this topic together.
Species of lizard

Smith's leaf-toed gecko
Conservation status

Least Concern  (IUCN 3.1)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Squamata
Family: Gekkonidae
Genus: Hemidactylus
Species: H. smithi
Binomial name
Hemidactylus smithi
Boulenger, 1895

Smith's leaf-toed gecko (Hemidactylus smithi) is a species of lizard in the family Gekkonidae. The species is endemic to the Horn of Africa.

Etymology

The specific name, smithi, is in honor of American physician Arthur Donaldson Smith.

Geographic range

H. smithi is found in eastern Ethiopia and northern Somalia.

Habitat

The preferred habitat of H. smithi is at altitudes of 630–1,100 m (2,070–3,610 ft).

Reproduction

H. smithi is oviparous.

References

  1. ^ Spawls, S. (2021). "Hemidactylus smithi". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2021: e.T178392A22589155. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2021-1.RLTS.T178392A22589155.en. Retrieved 19 November 2021.
  2. Beolens B, Watkins M, Grayson M (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore, Maryland: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. ISBN 978-1-4214-0135-5. (Hemidactylus smithi, p. 247).
  3. ^ Hemidactylus smithi at the Reptarium.cz Reptile Database

Further reading

  • Boulenger GA (1895). "An Account of the Reptiles and Batrachians collected by Dr. A. Donaldson Smith in Western Somali-land and the Galla Country". Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1895: 530–540 + Plates XXIX & XXX. (Hemidactylus smithi, new species, p. 532 + Plate XXIX, Figures 2, 2a).
  • Largen M, Spawls S (2010). The Amphibians and Reptiles of Ethiopia and Eritrea. Frankfurt am Main, Germany: Chimaira / Serpents Tale. 694 pp. (Hemidactylus smithi, p. 312).
  • Loveridge A (1947). "Revision of the African Lizards of the Family Gekkonidae". Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoölogy at Harvard College 98: 1–469. (Hemidactylus smithi, pp. 166–167).
  • Mazuch T (2013). Amphibians and Reptiles of Somaliland and Eastern Ethiopia. Dřiteč, Czech Republic: Tomáš Mazuch Publishing. 80 pp. ISBN 978-80-905439-0-4.
  • Rösler H (2000). "Kommentierte Liste der rezent, subrezent und fossil bekannten Geckotaxa (Reptilia: Gekkonomorpha)". Gekkota 2: 28–153. (Hemidactylus smithi, p. 87). (in German).
  • Šmíd J, Carranza S, Kratochvíl L, Gvoždík V, Nasher AK, Moravec J (2013). "Out of Arabia: A Complex Biogeographic History of Multiple Vicariance and Dispersal Events in the Gecko Genus Hemidactylus (Reptilia: Gekkonidae)". PLoS One 8 (5): e64018.
Taxon identifiers
Hemidactylus smithi


This article about a Hemidactylus is a stub. You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it.

Categories: