Barboza's leaf-toed gecko explained

Barboza's leaf-toed gecko (Hemidactylus bayonii) is a species of lizard in the family Gekkonidae. The species is endemic to Angola.

Etymology

The specific name, bayonii, is in honor of Portuguese naturalist Francisco Antonio Pinheiro Bayão, who was a planter and administrator in Angola.^[1]

Habitat

The preferred natural habitat of H. bayonii is shrubland, at altitudes from sea level to 900m (3,000feet).

Description

Small for its genus, H. bayonii may attain a snout-to-vent length (SVL) of about 3.5cm (01.4inches).

Reproduction

H. bayonii is oviparous.

Further reading

• Bocage JVB (1893). "Diagnoses de quelques nouvelles espèces de reptiles et batraciens d'Angola". Jornal de Sciencias Mathematicas, Physicas e Naturaes, Academia Real de Sciencias de Lisboa, Segunda Série 3: 115–121. (Hemidactylus bayonii, new species, pp. 116–117). (in French).
• Ceríaco LMP, Agarwal I, Marques MP, Bauer AM (2020). "A review of the genus Hemidactylus Goldfuss, 1820 (Squamata: Gekkonidae) from Angola, with the description of two new species". Zootaxa 4746 (1): 1–71. (Hemidactylus bayonii, p. 20).
• Rösler H (2000). "Kommentierte Liste der rezent, subrezent und fossil bekannten Geckotaxa (Reptilia: Gekkonomorpha)". Gekkota 2: 28–153. (Hemidactylus bayonii, p. 85). (in German).

Notes and References

1. [Richard Allen "Bo" Crombet-Beolens|Beolens B]