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Hemidactylus bavazzanoi

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Hemidactylus bavazzanoi
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Squamata
Family: Gekkonidae
Genus: Hemidactylus
Species:
H. bavazzanoi
Binomial name
Hemidactylus bavazzanoi
Lanza, 1978

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

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The specific name, bavazzanoi, is in honor of Italian botanist Renato Bavazzano.[2]

Geographic range

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H. bavazzanoi is found in southern Ethiopia, northeastern Kenya, and southern Somalia.[3]

Habitat

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The preferred natural habitat of H. bavazzanoi is shrubland.[1]

Description

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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

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H. bavazzanoi is oviparous.[3]

References

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  1. ^ 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.
  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 bavazzanoi, p. 20).
  3. ^ a b c Hemidactylus bavazzanoi at the Reptarium.cz Reptile Database

Further reading

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  • 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).