Granchi's leaf-toed gecko
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]
| 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 | |
Etymology
The specific name, granchii, is in honor of Italian herpetologist Edoardo Granchi of the Museo di Storia Naturale di Firenze.[2]
References
- Hemidactylus granchii at the Reptarium.cz Reptile Database
- 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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