Chitral gecko

Chitral gecko
Scientific classification
Kingdom:Animalia
Phylum:Chordata
Class:Reptilia
Order:Squamata
Family:Gekkonidae
Genus:Mediodactylus
Species: M. walli
Binomial name
Mediodactylus walli
(Ingoldby, 1922)
Synonyms[1]
  • Gymnodactylus walli
    Ingoldby, 1922
  • Cyrtodactylus walli
    — Kluge, 1993
  • Gonydactylus walli
    — Das, 1994
  • Cyrtopodion walli
    — Rösler, 2000
  • Tenuidactylus walli
    — Khan, 2003
  • Altiphylax walli
    — Sindaco & Jeremčenko, 2008

The Chitral gecko (Mediodactylus walli) is a species of gecko, a lizard in the family Gekkonidae. The species is endemic to Pakistan.

Etymology

The specific name, walli, is in honor of British herpetologist Frank Wall.[2]

Geographic range

It is found in northwestern Pakistan. The type locality is "Chitral, Northwest Frontier Province, Pakistan".[1]

References

  1. 1 2 "Mediodactylus walli ". The Reptile Database. www.reptile-database.org.
  2. ↑ 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. (Cyrtopodion walli, p. 279).

Further reading

  • Das I (1994). "The reptiles of South Asia: checklist and distributional summary". Hamadryad 19: 15-40.
  • Ingoldby CM (1922). "A new stone gecko from the Himalaya". J. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc. 28: 1051. (Gymnodactylus walli, new species).
  • Khan MS (1992). "Validity of the mountain gecko, Gymnodactylus walli INGOLDBY 1922". Herpetol. J. 2 (4): 106-109.


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