Granchi's leaf-toed gecko explained

Granchi's leaf-toed gecko (Hemidactylus granchii) is a species of lizard in the family Gekkonidae. The species is endemic to Somalia.

Etymology

The specific name, granchii, is in honor of Italian herpetologist Edoardo Granchi of the Museo di Storia Naturale di Firenze.^[1]

The preferred natural habitats of H. granchii are savanna and shrubland.

H. granchii is oviparous.

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. .
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.