Hemidactylus bavazzanoi explained

Hemidactylus bavazzanoi, also known commonly as Bavazzano's gecko, the Somali banded gecko, and the Somali leaf-toed gecko, is a species of lizard in the family Gekkonidae. The species is native to eastern Africa.

Etymology

The specific name, bavazzanoi, is in honor of Italian botanist Renato Bavazzano.^[1]

Geographic range

H. bavazzanoi is found in southern Ethiopia, northeastern Kenya, and southern Somalia.

Habitat

The preferred natural habitat of H. bavazzanoi is shrubland.

Description

Medium-sized for its genus, H. bavazzanoi may attain a snout-to-vent length (SVL) of 4cm (02inches). Dorsally, it is pink with four black crossbands, a crescentic one on the neck, two on the body, and one on the base of the tail.

Reproduction

H. bavazzanoi is oviparous.

Further reading

• Lanza B (1978). "On some new or interesting east African reptiles and amphibians". Monitore Zoologico Italiano, Supplemento 10 (14): 229–297. (Hemidactylus bavazzanoi, new species, pp. 249–255, Figures 13–16). (in English, with an abstract in Italian).
• Largen MJ, Spawls S (2010). Amphibians and Reptiles of Ethiopea and Eritrea. Frankfurt am Main: Edition Chimaira / Serpents Tale. 694 pp. . (Hemidactylus bavazzanoi, p. 291).
• Rösler H (2000). "Kommentierte Liste der rezent, subrezent und fossil bekannten Geckotaxa (Reptilia: Gekkonomorpha)". Gekkota 2: 28–153. (Hemidactylus bavazzanoi, p. 85). (in German).
• Spawls S, Howell K, Hinkel H, Menegon M (2018). Field Guide to East African Reptiles, Second Edition. London: Bloomsbury Natural History. 624 pp. . (Hemidactylus bavazzanoi, p. 87).

Notes and References

1. [species:Bo Beolens|Beolens, Bo]