Grant's leaf-toed gecko

Grant's leaf-toed gecko
Scientific classification
Kingdom:Animalia
Phylum:Chordata
Class:Reptilia
Order:Squamata
Family:Gekkonidae
Genus:Hemidactylus
Species: H. granti
Binomial name
Hemidactylus granti
Boulenger, 1899

Grant's leaf-toed gecko (Hemidactylus granti ) is a species of gecko, a lizard in the family Gekkonidae. The species is endemic to Socotra.[2]

Etymology

The specific name, granti, is in honor of Scottish ornithologist William Robert Ogilvie-Grant.[3]

Reproduction

H. granti is oviparous.[2]

References

  1. ↑ Sindaco R, Grieco C, Riservato E (2011). "Hemidactylus granti ". The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2011: e.T199724A9123061. https://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2011-2.RLTS.T199724A9123061.en. Downloaded on 09 June 2018.
  2. 1 2 Hemidactylus granti at the Reptarium.cz Reptile Database
  3. ↑ 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. ("Grant, W.R.O.", p. 106).

Further reading

  • Boulenger GA (1899). "The Expedition to Sokotra: II. Descriptions of the New Species of Reptiles". Bulletin of the Liverpool Museums 2: 4-7. (Hemidactylus granti, new species, p. 4).


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