Hemidactylus bavazzanoi
| Hemidactylus bavazzanoi | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Order: | Squamata |
| Family: | Gekkonidae |
| Genus: | Hemidactylus |
| Species: | H. bavazzanoi
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| Binomial name | |
| Hemidactylus bavazzanoi Lanza, 1978
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Hemidactylus bavazzanoi, also known commonly as Bavazzano's gecko, the Somali banded gecko, and the Somali leaf-toed gecko, is a species of lizard in the family Gekkonidae. The species is native to eastern Africa.
Etymology[edit]
The specific name, bavazzanoi, is in honor of Italian botanist Renato Bavazzano.[2]
Geographic range[edit]
H. bavazzanoi is found in southern Ethiopia, northeastern Kenya, and southern Somalia.[3]
Habitat[edit]
The preferred natural habitat of H. bavazzanoi is shrubland.[1]
Description[edit]
Medium-sized for its genus, H. bavazzanoi may attain a snout-to-vent length (SVL) of 4 cm (1.6 in). Dorsally, it is pink with four black crossbands, a crescentic one on the neck, two on the body, and one on the base of the tail.[3]
Reproduction[edit]
H. bavazzanoi is oviparous.[3]
References[edit]
- ^ a b Spawls S, Malonza P, Wagner P (2021). "Hemidactylus bavazzanoi ". The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2021: https://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2021-1.RLTS.T18488395A18488442.en. Downloaded on 18 June 2021.
- ^ Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. ISBN 978-1-4214-0135-5. (Hemidactylus bavazzanoi, p. 20).
- ^ a b c Hemidactylus bavazzanoi at the Reptarium.cz Reptile Database
Further reading[edit]
- Lanza B (1978). "On some new or interesting east African reptiles and amphibians". Monitore Zoologico Italiano, Supplemento 10 (14): 229–297. (Hemidactylus bavazzanoi, new species, pp. 249–255, Figures 13–16). (in English, with an abstract in Italian).
- Largen MJ, Spawls S (2010). Amphibians and Reptiles of Ethiopea and Eritrea. Frankfurt am Main: Edition Chimaira / Serpents Tale. 694 pp. ISBN 978-3899734669. (Hemidactylus bavazzanoi, p. 291).
- Rösler H (2000). "Kommentierte Liste der rezent, subrezent und fossil bekannten Geckotaxa (Reptilia: Gekkonomorpha)". Gekkota 2: 28–153. (Hemidactylus bavazzanoi, p. 85). (in German).
- Spawls S, Howell K, Hinkel H, Menegon M (2018). Field Guide to East African Reptiles, Second Edition. London: Bloomsbury Natural History. 624 pp. ISBN 978-1472935618. (Hemidactylus bavazzanoi, p. 87).