Granchi's leaf-toed gecko

Granchi's leaf-toed gecko
Scientific classification
Kingdom:Animalia
Phylum:Chordata
Class:Reptilia
Order:Squamata
Family:Gekkonidae
Genus:Hemidactylus
Species: H. granchii
Binomial name
Hemidactylus granchii
Lanza, 1978

Granchi's leaf-toed gecko (Hemidactylus granchii ) is a species of gecko, a lizard in the family Gekkonidae. The species is endemic to east central Somalia.[1]

Etymology

The specific name, granchii, is in honor of Italian herpetologist Edoardo Granchi of the Museo di Storia Naturale di Firenze.[2]

References

  1. Hemidactylus granchii at the Reptarium.cz Reptile Database
  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. (Hemidactylus granchii, p. 105).

Further reading

  • Lanza B (1978). "On some new or interesting East African amphibians and reptiles". Monitore Zoologico Italiano, Supplemento 10 (14): 229-297. (Hemidactylus granchii, new species, p. 255).
  • Šmíd, Jiří; Mazuch, Tomáš; Sindaco, Roberto (2014). "An additional record of the little known gecko Hemidactylus granchii Lanza, 1978 (Reptilia: Gekkonidae) from Somalia". pp. 165-169. In: Capula, Massimo; Corti, Claudia (editors) (2014). Scripta Herpetologica. Studies on Amphibians and Reptiles in honour of Benedetto Lanza. Latina, Italy: Edizioni Belvedere. 200 pp.


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