Smith's leaf-toed gecko
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Order: | Squamata |
| Family: | Gekkonidae |
| Genus: | Hemidactylus |
| Species: | H. smithi
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| Binomial name | |
| Hemidactylus smithi Boulenger, 1895
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Smith's leaf-toed gecko (Hemidactylus smithi) is a species of lizard in the family Gekkonidae. The species is endemic to the Horn of Africa.
Etymology
[edit]The specific name, smithi, is in honor of American physician Arthur Donaldson Smith.[2]
Geographic range
[edit]H. smithi is found in eastern Ethiopia and northern Somalia.[3]
Habitat
[edit]The preferred habitat of H. smithi is at altitudes of 630–1,100 m (2,070–3,610 ft).[1]
Reproduction
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ a b Spawls, S. (2021). "Hemidactylus smithi". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2021: e.T178392A22589155. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2021-1.RLTS.T178392A22589155.en. Retrieved 19 November 2021.
- ^ Beolens B, Watkins M, Grayson M (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore, Maryland: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. ISBN 978-1-4214-0135-5. (Hemidactylus smithi, p. 247).
- ^ a b Hemidactylus smithi at the Reptarium.cz Reptile Database
Further reading
[edit]- Boulenger GA (1895). "An Account of the Reptiles and Batrachians collected by Dr. A. Donaldson Smith in Western Somali-land and the Galla Country". Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1895: 530–540 + Plates XXIX & XXX. (Hemidactylus smithi, new species, p. 532 + Plate XXIX, Figures 2, 2a).
- Largen M, Spawls S (2010). The Amphibians and Reptiles of Ethiopia and Eritrea. Frankfurt am Main, Germany: Chimaira / Serpents Tale. 694 pp. (Hemidactylus smithi, p. 312).
- Loveridge A (1947). "Revision of the African Lizards of the Family Gekkonidae". Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoölogy at Harvard College 98: 1–469. (Hemidactylus smithi, pp. 166–167).
- Mazuch T (2013). Amphibians and Reptiles of Somaliland and Eastern Ethiopia. Dřiteč, Czech Republic: Tomáš Mazuch Publishing. 80 pp. ISBN 978-80-905439-0-4.
- Rösler H (2000). "Kommentierte Liste der rezent, subrezent und fossil bekannten Geckotaxa (Reptilia: Gekkonomorpha)". Gekkota 2: 28–153. (Hemidactylus smithi, p. 87). (in German).
- Šmíd J, Carranza S, Kratochvíl L, Gvoždík V, Nasher AK, Moravec J (2013). "Out of Arabia: A Complex Biogeographic History of Multiple Vicariance and Dispersal Events in the Gecko Genus Hemidactylus (Reptilia: Gekkonidae)". PLoS One 8 (5): e64018.