Smith's leaf-toed gecko
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.[2]

Geographic range

H. smithi is found in eastern Ethiopia and northern Somalia.[3]

Habitat

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

Reproduction

H. smithi is oviparous.[3]

References

  1. 1 2 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. 1 2 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.


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