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Hemidactylus inexpectatus CARRANZA & ARNOLD, 2012

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Higher TaxaGekkonidae, Gekkota, Sauria, Squamata (lizards: geckos)
Subspecies 
Common Names 
SynonymHemidactylus inexpectatus CARRANZA & ARNOLD 2012: 59 
DistributionOman (Gulf of Masirah, West of Barr al Hikman, Hammar-an-Nafur island)

Type locality: 2.5 km Southeast of Ar Rumayliyah, 20.3319’N 57.78989’E, elevation 65 m.  
Reproductionoviparous (not imputed, fide Zimin et al. 2022) 
TypesHolotype: BMNH 2008.711, male, collected on the 29th of October 2008 by S. Carranza, E.N. Arnold and S. Alrabiei (MorphoBank M100257–M100280). Paratypes: BMNH2008.712, male, same collecting data as Holotype (MorphoBank M100233–M100256); IBES1798, male, same collecting data as Holotype (MorphoBank M100281–M100301); IBES7722, male from the same locality as the Holotype, collected on the 11th of October 2010 by S. Carranza and F. Amat (MorphoBank M100302–M100310); IBES7700, female, same collecting data as IBES7722 (MorphoBank M100311–M100315); IBES7735, female, same collecting data as IBES7722 (MorphoBank M100316–M100320); ONHM3711, female, same collecting data as IBES7722 (MorphoBank M100321–M100328). 
DiagnosisDiagnosis A small, slender, depressed Hemidactylus growing up to 44.1 mm SVL. Low conical or weakly keeled tubercles on back and neck, arranged in 14 regular rows at mid-body, largest on lateral dorsum compared with mid- back and flank; larger tubercles present on hind limbs and tail; adhesive pads narrow, lamellae under the 1st toe of pes 6, lamellae under toe 4th toe mean 10.5 (10–11); preanal pores 4; expanded subcaudal scales extend to about 2–4 whorls from tail base. Dorsum with a pattern of irregular dark spots and streaks; tail with 8–9 dark bands that increase in intensity distally contrasting with pale interstices, the final 5–6 extending to the ventral surface. 
CommentMorphoBank M100233–M100346 
EtymologyThe species epithet “inexpectatus” refers to the unexpected finding of this distinct new species of Hemidactylus in this area of Central Oman. 
References
  • Carranza S, Xipell M, Tarroso P, Gardner A, Arnold EN, Robinson MD, et al. 2018. Diversity, distribution and conservation of the terrestrial reptiles of Oman (Sauropsida, Squamata). PLoS One 13 (2): e0190389 - get paper here
  • Carranza, S., Arnold, E. Nicholas 2012. 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: 1–95 - get paper here
  • Carranza, Salvador; Johannes Els; Bernat Burriel-Carranza 2021. A field guide to the reptiles of Oman. Madrid : Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, 223 pp. [review in HR 53 (3): 531] - get paper here
  • Gardner, A.S. 2013. The amphibians and reptiles of Oman and the UAE. Edition Chimaira, 480 pp.
  • Rösler, Herbert 2015. Bemerkungen über einige Geckos der Zoologischen Staatssammlung München. Gekkota, Suppl. (2): 3-54
  • Šmíd, Jiří; Salvador Carranza, Lukáš Kratochvíl, Václav Gvoždík, Abdul Karim Nasher, Jiří Moravec 2013. Out of Arabia: A Complex Biogeographic History of Multiple Vicariance and Dispersal Events in the Gecko Genus Hemidactylus (Reptilia: Gekkonidae). PLoS One 8(5): e64018 - get paper here
  • Zimin, A., Zimin, S. V., Shine, R., Avila, L., Bauer, A., Böhm, M., Brown, R., Barki, G., de Oliveira Caetano, G. H., Castro Herrera, F., Chapple, D. G., Chirio, L., Colli, G. R., Doan, T. M., Glaw, F., Grismer, L. L., Itescu, Y., Kraus, F., LeBreton 2022. A global analysis of viviparity in squamates highlights its prevalence in cold climates. Global Ecology and Biogeography, 00, 1–16 - get paper here
 
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