Hemidactylus granosus

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 granosus

Name

• Hemidactylus granosus Heyden, 1827: 17

Lectotype: SMF 8723, adult ♂. [designated by Mertens (1967: 55)]

Type locality: “Egypten, Arabien, und Abyssinien”, restricted to “Arabia petraea [=Sinai]”, Egypt, by Mertens (1967: 55).

Taxonomic note: H. granosus was considered a junior synonym of Hemidactylus turcicus by Boulenger (1885), Loveridge (1947), Mertens & Wermuth (1960), Mertens (1967), Salvador (1981), Baha El Din (2006), but resurrected from synonymy by Šmíd et al. (2013).

References

Primary references

• Heyden, C.H.G. von. 1827. Reptilien. pp. 1–24 in Rüppell, E. Atlas zu Reise im nördlichen Afrika. l. Zoologie. Heinrich Ludwig Brönner: Frankfurt am Main.
• Mertens, R. 1967. Die herpetologische Sektion des Natur-Museums und Forschungs-Institutes Senckenberg in Frankfurt am Main nebst einem Verzeichnis ihrer Typen. Senckenbergiana Biologica 48: 1–106.
• Šmíd, J., Moravec, J., Kratochvíl, L., Gvoždík, V., Nasher, A.K., Busais, S.M., Wilms, T.M., Shobrak, M.Y. & Carranza, S. 2013. Two newly recognized species of Hemidactylus (Squamata, Gekkonidae) from the Arabian Peninsula and Sinai, Egypt. ZooKeys 355: 79–107. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.355.6190 Reference page. 

Links

• Uetz, P. & Hallermann, J. 2024. Hemidactylus granosus. The Reptile Database. Accessed on 18 October 2017.