Biology:Missone’s spider gecko

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Short description: species of gecko

Missone’s spider gecko
Scientific classification edit
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Squamata
Family: Gekkonidae
Genus: Rhinogekko
Species:
R. misonnei
Binomial name
Rhinogekko misonnei
de Witte, 1973
Rhinogecko misonnei distribution.png
Synonyms[2]
  • Rhinogekko misonnei
    de Witte, 1973
  • Agamura misonnei
    — Rösler, 2000
  • Rhinogekko misonnei
    — Khan, 2003

Missone's spider gecko (Rhinogekko misonnei ), also known commonly as Witte's gecko, is a species of lizard in the family Gekkonidae. The species is endemic to South Asia and Western Asia.

Etymology

The specific name, misonnei, is in honor of Xavier Misonne who is a Belgian anthropologist and zoologist.[3]

Geographic range

R. misonnei is found in Iran and Pakistan .[2]

References

  1. Papenfuss, Theodore; Soheila Shafiei Bafti, Mozafar Sharifi (2009). "Rhinogecko misonnei ". The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2009: e.T164743A5922371. Downloaded on 10 January 2019.
  2. 2.0 2.1 Rhinogekko misonnei at the Reptarium.cz Reptile Database. Accessed 10 January 2019.
  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. (Agamura misonnei, p. 179).

Further reading

  • de Witte G-F (1973). "Description d'un Gekkonidae nouveau de l'Iran (Reptilia, Sauria)". Bulletin de l'Institut Royal des Sciences Naturelles de Belgique 49 (1): 1–6. (Rhinogekko misonnei, new species). (in French).

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