Biology:Ptyodactylus hasselquistii

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Short description: Species of lizard


Ptyodactylus hasselquistii
Scientific classification edit
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Squamata
Family: Phyllodactylidae
Genus: Ptyodactylus
Species:
P. hasselquistii
Binomial name
Ptyodactylus hasselquistii
(Donndorff, 1798)
Synonyms[1]
  • Lacerta hasselquistii
    Donndorff, 1798
  • Gecko ascalabotes
    Merrem, 1820
  • Gecko lobatus
    Lichtenstein, 1823
  • Ptyodactylus lobatus
    — Gray, 1825
  • Ptyodactylus hasselquistii
    — A.M.C. Duméril & Bibron, 1836

Ptyodactylus hasselquistii, commonly known as the fan-footed gecko, Hasselquist's fan-footed gecko, and the yellow fan-fingered gecko, is a species of gecko, a lizard in the family Phyllodactylidae. The species is native to northern Africa and western Asia.

Etymology

The specific name, hasselquistii, is in honor of Swedish naturalist Fredrik Hasselquist.[2]

Description

Ptyodactylus hasselquistii grows to a snout-to-vent length (SVL) of 96 mm (3.8 in).[3]

Geographic range

Ptyodactylus hasselquistii is found in Algeria, Cameroon, Egypt, Eritrea, eastern Ethiopia, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia (including the Farasan Islands), northern Somalia, Sudan, and Syria.[1]

The type locality is Cairo, Egypt.[1]

Reproduction

Ptyodactylus hasselquistii is oviparous.[1] Clutch size is two eggs.[4]

Subspecies

Two subspecies are recognized as being valid, including the nominotypical subspecies.[1]

  • Ptyodactylus hasselquistii hasselquistii (Donndorff, 1798)
  • Ptyodactylus hasselquistii krameri Y. Werner, 1995 – Kramer's yellow fan-fingered gecko

Nota bene: A trinomial authority in parentheses indicates that the subspecies was originally described in a genus other than Ptyodactylus.

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 "Ptyodactylus hasselquistii ". The Reptile Database. www.reptile-database.org. http://reptile-database.reptarium.cz/species?genus=Ptyodactylus&species=hasselquistii
  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. (Ptyodactylus hasselquistii, p. 117).
  3. ↑ Loveridge A (1947). "Revision of The African Lizards of the Family Gekkonidae". Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoölogy at Harvard College 98 (1): 1–469. (Ptyodactylus hasselquistii, pp. 275–283).
  4. ↑ Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; no text was provided for refs named iucn

Further reading

  • Donndorff JA (1798). Amphibiologische und Ichthyologische Beyträge zur XIII. Ausgabe des Linneischen Natursysyems. Dritter Band [Volume 3]. Amphiben und Fische. Leipzig: Weidmannschen Buchhandlung. vi + 980 pp. (Lacerta hasselquistii, new species, p. 133). (in German and Latin).
  • Rösler H (2000). "Kommentierte Liste der rezent, subrezent und fossil bekannten Geckotaxa (Reptilia: Gekkonomorpha)". Gekkota 2: 28–153. (Ptyodactylus hasselquistii, p. 107). (in German).
  • Werner YL (1995). "Some unusual herpetological finds from Cyprus and Lebanon, including a new Ptyodactylus (Reptilia: Gekkonidae)". Biologia Gallo-Hellenica 22: 67–76. (Ptyodactylus hasselquistii krameri, new subspecies). (Fifth International Congress on Zoogeography and Ecology of Greece and Neighbouring Regions. Iraklion, Crete, Greece. April 16–20, 1990).

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