Hemidactylus luqueorum explained

Hemidactylus luqueorum is a species of house gecko endemic to Oman.^[1] The specific epithet luqueorum honors Maria Teresa Luque and her family.

Hemidactylus luqueorum is found in the western Hajar Mountains in northern Oman at above sea level.

Further reading

• Šmíd, Jiří, et al. "Out of Arabia: A complex biogeographic history of multiple vicariance and dispersal events in the gecko genus Hemidactylus (Reptilia: Gekkonidae)." (2013): e64018.

Notes and References

1. Carranza, Salvador, and Edwin Nicholas Arnold. "A review of the geckos of the genus Hemidactylus (Squamata: Gekkonidae) from Oman based on morphology, mitochondrial and nuclear data, with descriptions of eight new species." Zootaxa 3378 (2012): 1-95.