Hemidactylus kamdemtohami BAUER & PAUWELS, 2002
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Hemidactylus kamdemtohami
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| Higher Taxa | Gekkonidae, Gekkota, Sauria, Squamata (lizards: geckos) |
| Subspecies | |
| Common Names | E: Kamdem Toham's Gecko |
| Synonym | Hemidactylus kamdemtohami BAUER & PAUWELS 2002 Hemidactylus sp. — PAUWELS et al. 2002 Hemidactylus kamdemtohami — RÖSLER 2015 |
| Distribution | Gabon, Equatorial Guinea, Cameroon Type locality: Gabon, eastern slope of Mont Iboundji. |
| Reproduction | oviparous |
| Types | Holotype: IRSNB, Institut Royal des Sciences Naturelles de Belgique |
| Diagnosis | Diagnosis: A moderately sized Hemidactylus, snout-vent length at least 71 mm. One pair of enlarged postmentals, narrowly separated from one another. 18-19 rows of relatively small tubercles. 63 scale rows across venter between ventrolateral folds. Eleven enlarged scansors beneath fourth toe of pes, digits with pronounced basal webs. Body grey with a paler, broad vertebral stripe, a pair of darker paravertebral stripes and a pair of diffuse, darker ventrolateral stripes. Hemidactylus kamdemtohami may be distinguished from all other equatorial West African congeners on the basis of (sympatric taxa with differing or non-overlapping character states indicated parenthetically): 18-19 rows of dorsal tubercles (0-4 rows in H. richardsonii, 10-14 in H. muriceus), and strongly webbed digits (unwebbed in H. brookii angulatus, H. longicephalus, H. mabouia, H. muriceus; very slightly webbed in H. echinus, H. fasciatus). Further, the combination of dark ventral coloration, dorsal longitudinal stripes, and white triangles on the thighs distinguish this species from these and all other known Hemidactylus. Loveridge (1947), who provided accounts of all African Hemidactylus then recognised (48 taxa), characterised the ventral coloration of most species as whitish. Among other Equatorial West African species, a dark venter is found only in H. muriceus (whitish but almost obscured by brown infuscations) and H. richardsonii (gray tinged with yellow), both of which have fewer rows of dorsal tubercles and differ in dorsal colour pattern from the new species. Dark venters otherwise characterize only the East African H. laticaudatus fossatii (whitish or yellowish gray), H. ruspolii (dark brown or nearly black), and H. tanganicus (grayish tinged with pink), and the West African H. ansorgii (syn. H. intestinalis; whitish flecked with brown, or brownish). All of these taxa differ markedly in dorsal colour pattern and scalation from H. kamdemtohami. (Bauer & Pauwels 2002) Unfortunately we had to temporarily remove additional information as this was scraped by multiple AI companies who sell that data to their customers. These details, e.g. detailed descriptions or comparisons (about 6848 characters) are available for collaborators and contributors. Please contact us for details. |
| Comment | Distribution: For a map with localities in Equatorial Guinea see SÁNCHEZ-VIALAS et al. 2022. |
| Etymology | Named after Andre Kamdem Toham, a friend of the authors and African conservationist. |
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