Hemidactylus benguellensis

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Gekkonoidea

Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Superphylum: Deuterostomia Phylum: Chordata Subphylum: Vertebrata Infraphylum: Gnathostomata Megaclassis: Osteichthyes Cladus: Sarcopterygii Cladus: Rhipidistia Cladus: Tetrapodomorpha Cladus: Eotetrapodiformes Cladus: Elpistostegalia Superclassis: Tetrapoda Cladus: Reptiliomorpha Cladus: Amniota Classis: Reptilia Cladus: Eureptilia Cladus: Romeriida Subclassis: Diapsida Cladus: Sauria Infraclassis: Lepidosauromorpha Superordo: Lepidosauria Ordo: Squamata Subordo: Gekkota Infraordo: Gekkomorpha Superfamilia: Gekkonoidea

Familia: Gekkonidae
Genus: Hemidactylus
Species: Hemidactylus benguellensis

Name

Hemidactylus benguellensis Bocage, 1893: 115

• Syntypes: MB, ♂ and ♀, collected by J.A. de Anchieta in 1891. [destroyed by fire in 1978]
• Neotype: CAS 263540 (field number AMB 10304), adult ♂, collected by Luis M.P. Ceríaco, Suzana Bandeira and Ishan Agarwal on 21 November 2016. [designated by Ceríaco, Agarwal, Marques & Bauer (2020: 28)]
• Type locality: “Cahata, dans l'intérieur de Benguella”, redesigned by neotype designation to “N’Dolondolo (-13.81328°, 13.13618°, 682 m), Namibe Province, Republic of Angola” by Ceríaco, Agarwal, Marques & Bauer (2020: 28).

References

Primary references

• Bocage, J.V.B. du 1893. Diagnoses de quelques nouvelles especes de reptiles et batraciens d‘Angola. Jornal de Sciencias Mathematicas, Physicas e Naturaes. Segunda Série 3(2): 115–121. BHL
• Ceríaco, L.M.P., Agarwal, I., Marques, M.P. & Bauer, A.M. 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. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4746.1.1 Reference page. 

Vernacular names

English: Benguela House Gecko