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Hemidactylus pumilio BOULENGER, 1899

IUCN Red List - Hemidactylus pumilio - Least Concern, LC
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Higher TaxaGekkonidae, Gekkota, Sauria, Squamata (lizards: geckos)
Subspecies 
Common NamesE: Pigmy Leaf-toed Gecko
G: Zwerg-Halbfingergecko 
SynonymHemidactylus pumilus BOULENGER 1899 (non H. pumilus HALLOWELL 1860)
Hemidactylus pumilio BOULENGER 1899: 17 (nom. nov.)
Hemidactylus pumilio — LOVERIDGE 1947: 130
Hemidactylus pumilio — WERMUTH 1965: 83
Hemidactylus pumilio — KLUGE 1993
Hemidactylus pumilio — RÖSLER 2000: 87
Hemidactylus pumilio — RAZZETTI et al. 2011 
DistributionSocotra Island (endemic)

Type locality: restricted to Dahamis (350 feet elevation), Socotra Island by LOVERIDGE 1947.  
Reproductionoviparous 
TypesHolotype: MRSN (= MSNTO) R2686 
Diagnosis 
CommentDistribution: Reports from Somalia have not been substantiated. 
References
  • Boulenger, G. A. 1899. Descriptions of the new species of reptiles. Bulletin of the Liverpool Museum, 2:4-7 - get paper here
  • Boulenger, G. A. 1899. Reptilia and Batrachia. Zoological Record, 36:1-31
  • Braz, Henrique B.; Rodrigo R. Scartozzoni, Selma M. Almeida-Santos 2016. Reproductive modes of the South American water snakes: A study system for the evolution of viviparity in squamate reptiles. Zoologischer Anzeiger 263: 33-44; doi:10.1016/j.jcz.2016.04.003 - get paper here
  • Garcia-Porta, Joan; Hernán E. Morales, Elena Gómez-Díaz, Roberto Sindaco, Salvador Carranza 2016. Patterns of diversification in islands: A comparative study across three gecko genera in the Socotra Archipelago. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2016.02.007 - get paper here
  • Loveridge, A. 1947. Revision of the African lizards of the family Gekkondiae. Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool. Harvard 98: 1-469 - get paper here
  • Razzetti, Edoardo; ROBERTO SINDACO, CRISTINA GRIECO, FRANCESCA PELLA, UGO ZILIANI, FABIO PUPIN, ELISA RISERVATO, DANIELE PELLITTERI-ROSA, LUCA BUTIKOFER, AHMED SAEED SULEIMAN, BADAR AWADH AL-ASEILY, CATERINA CARUGATI, ELEONORA BONCOMPAGNI & MAURO FAS 2011. Annotated checklist and distribution of the Socotran Archipelago Herpetofauna (Reptilia). Zootaxa 2826: 1–44 - get paper here
  • Rösler, H. 2000. Kommentierte Liste der rezent, subrezent und fossil bekannten Geckotaxa (Reptilia: Gekkonomorpha). Gekkota 2: 28-153
  • Rösler, H. & Wranik, W. 2004. A key and annotated checklist to the reptiles of the Socotra archipelago. Fauna of Arabia 20: 505-534
  • Rösler, H. & Wranik, W. 2005. Die Gecko-Inseln. 1. Teil: Die nachtaktiven Geckos der Gattungen Haemodracon BAUER, GOOD, BRANCH 1997 und Hemidactylus GRAY 1825 vom Sokotra Archipel, Jemen (Reptilia: Sauria: Gekkonidae). Sauria 27 (4): 15-26 - get paper here
  • Rösler, Herbert 2017. Gecko-Chorologie (Squamata: Gekkota). Gekkota (4): 1-160
  • Rösler,H. & Wranik,W. 2000. Die Geckofauna des Sokotra-Archipels (Sauria: Gekkonidae). Gekkota 2: 20-27
  • 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
 
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