Granchi's leaf-toed gecko (Hemidactylus granchii) is a species of lizard in the family Gekkonidae. The species is endemic to Somalia.[1][2]
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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. granchii
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| Binomial name | |
| Hemidactylus granchii Lanza, 1978
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Etymology
editThe specific name, granchii, is in honor of Italian herpetologist Edoardo Granchi of the Museo di Storia Naturale di Firenze.[2][3]
Habitat
editThe preferred natural habitats of H. granchii are savanna and shrubland.[1]
Reproduction
editReferences
edit- ^ a b c Spawls, S. (2021). "Hemidactylus granchii ". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2021: e.T18490404A18490408. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2021-1.RLTS.T18490404A18490408.en. Retrieved 28 March 2022.
- ^ a b c Hemidactylus granchii at the Reptarium.cz Reptile Database. Accessed 28 March 2022.
- ^ 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
edit- 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).
- 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 der rezent, subrezent und fossil bekannten Geckotaxa (Reptilia: Gekkonomorpha)". Gekkota 2: 28–153. (Hemidactylus granchii, p. 86). (in German).
- 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.