Hemidactylus tropidolepis MOCQUARD, 1888

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Higher Taxa	Gekkonidae, Gekkota, Sauria, Squamata (lizards: geckos)
Subspecies
Common Names	E: Mocquard's Leaf-toed Gecko, Ogaden Gecko
Synonym	Hemidactylus tropidolepis MOCQUARD 1888 Hemidactylus tropidolepis — CALABRESI 1923: 152 Teratolepis tropidolepis — PARKER 1942: 36 Hemidactylus tropidolepis tropidolepis — LOVERIDGE 1947: 110 Hemidactylus tropidolepis — WERMUTH 1965: 86 Hemidactylus tropidolepis — KLUGE 1993 Hemidactylus tropidolepis — RÖSLER 2000: 88 Hemidactylus tropidolepis — LARGEN & SPAWLS 2010: 315 Hemidactylus tropidolepis — SPAWLS et al. 2018: 98
Distribution	Kenya, Somalia (Tana River/Kenya British Somaliland), Ethiopia Type locality: “Pays Çomalis” [= Somaliland = Somalia, fide LOVERIDGE 1947]
Reproduction	oviparous
Types	Holotype: MNHN-RA 1884.0635
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Comment
Etymology	Named after Greek tropis (τροπίς), keel or a projecting part (such as a ridge) + Greek lepis (λέπις), scale. ["...Elles disparaissent dans le tronc et sont remplacées sur la face dorsale par des écailles plus ou moins fortement carénées..."].
References	Anderson, L. 1912. Notes on Hemidactylus tropidolepis. Jahrb. Ver. Nat. Wiesbaden 65: 227-231 Calabresi, Enrica 1923. Anfibi e Rettili dell'Africa orientale raccolti durante le Spedizioni Franchetti e Zammarano. Atti Soc. Ital. Sci. Nat. (Milano), 62: 145-163. - get paper here Gans, C.; LAURENT, R.F. & PANDIT, H. 1965. Notes on a herpetological collection from the Somali Republic. Ann. Mus. Roy. Afr. Centr., Sér. 8vo, Tervuren, (80) Zool., (134): 1-93 Lanza, B. 1990. Amphibians and reptiles of the Somali Democratic Republic: check list and biogeography. Biogeographia, 14: 407-465 [1988] - get paper here Largen, M.J.; Spawls, S. 2006. Lizards of Ethiopia (Reptilia Sauria): an annotated checklist, bibliography, gazetteer and identification. Tropical Zoology 19 (1): 21-109 - get paper here Largen, M.J.; Spawls, S. 2010. Amphibians and Reptiles of Ethiopia and Eritrea. Edition Chimaira, Frankfurt, 694 pp. Loveridge, A. 1947. Revision of the African lizards of the family Gekkondiae. Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool. Harvard 98: 1-469 - get paper here Mocquard, F. 1888. Sur une collection de reptiles et de batraciens rapportés des pays comalis et de Zanzibar par M. G. Révoil. Mémoires Publies par la Société Philomathique a l’occasion du Centenaire de sa fondation 1788—1888, Paris, pp. 109—134. Parker, H. W. 1942. The lizards of British Somaliland. Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool. Harvard 91: 1—101 - get paper here Rösler, H. 2000. Kommentierte Liste der rezent, subrezent und fossil bekannten Geckotaxa (Reptilia: Gekkonomorpha). Gekkota 2: 28-153 Spawls, S. & Rotich, D. 1997. An annotated checklist of the lizards of Kenya. J. East African Nat. Hist. 86: 61-83 Spawls, S.; Howell, K.; Drewes, R.C. & Ashe, J. 2002. A field guide to the reptiles of East Africa. Academic Press, 543 pp. [reviews in HR 34: 396 and Afr. J. Herp. 51; 147] - get paper here Spawls, Stephen; Tomáš Mazuch & Abubakr Mohammad 2023. Handbook of Amphibians and Reptiles of North-east Africa. Bloomsbury, 640 pp. - get paper here Spawls, Steve; Kim Howell, Harald Hinkel, Michele Menegon 2018. Field Guide to East African Reptiles. Bloomsbury, 624 pp. - get paper here
External links	IUCN Red List National Center for Biotechnology Information Google images

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