Pristurus phillipsii BOULENGER, 1895

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Higher Taxa	Sphaerodactylidae, Gekkota, Sauria, Squamata (lizards: geckos)
Subspecies
Common Names	E: Somai Rock Gecko
Synonym	Pristurus phillipsii BOULENGER 1895: 165 Pristurus phillipsii — LOVERIDGE 1947: 82 Pristurus phillipsii — WERMUTH 1965: 150 Pristurus phillipsii — KLUGE 1993 Pristurus phillipsii — RÖSLER 2000: 106
Distribution	Somalia (Goolis Mountains), Ethiopia Type locality: Goolis Mountains, 60 miles inwards of Berbera, Somalia.
Reproduction	oviparous
Types	Holotype: BMNH 1946.8.24.83, male
Diagnosis	Description: Loveridge 1947: 82. Original description: “Head short and deep; snout obtuse, scarcely longer than the diameter of the orbit ; forehead not concave ; ear-opening small, oblique. Hind limb reaching the ear, digits and claws moderate. Head and body covered with small granules, largest on the snout and belly. Rostral large, twice as broad as deep, with median cleft above; nostril pierced in a single nasal, which is notched and fissured above; six upper and four lower labials symphysial large, rounded behind no chin-shields. Tail compressed, with a low serrated crest above. Grey above, with dark brown cross-bars enclosing red dots; these bars interrupted on the vertebral line sides with three or four longitudinal series of oval or round deep black spots ; a blackish line along each side of the tail; lower parts white, throat marbled with grey. (Boulenger 1895) Measurements: Boulenger 1895: 165
Comment	Pristurus somalicus PARKER 1932 has been removed form synonymy of Pristurus phillipsii by ARNOLD 1993.
Etymology	Named after Ethelbert Lort Phillips (1857-ca. 1926), a British traveler, hunter, and collector who shot big game in many parts of the world. He traveled in East Africa (1884-1895) and explored parts of Somaliland (now Somalia).
References	Arnold, E.N. 2009. Relationships, evolution and biogeography of Semaphore geckos, Pristurus (Squamata, Sphaerodactylidae) based on morphology. Zootaxa 2060: 1-21 - get paper here Beolens, Bo; Michael Watkins, and Michael Grayson 2011. The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, USA - get paper here Boulenger, G. A. 1895. On the reptiles and batrachians obtained by Mr. E. Lort-Phillips in Somaliland. Ann. Mag. nat. Hist. (6) 16: 165-169 - get paper here Calabresi, Enrica 1915. Contributo alla conoscenza dei rettili della Somalia. Monitore Zoologico Italiano (supplemento), 28:234—247. - 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 Loveridge, A. 1947. Revision of the African lizards of the family Gekkondiae. Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool. Harvard 98: 1-469 - get paper here Mazuch, Tomáš 2013. Amphibians and Reptiles of Somaliland and Eastern Ethiopia. Tomáš Mazuch Publishing, 80 pp. ISBN: 978-80-905439-0-4 - get paper here 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 Rösler, H.; Köhler, J. & Böhme, W. 2008. A new species of the diurnal gekkonid genus Pristurus Rüppell, 1835 from the Red Sea island Hanish al-Kabir, Yemen. Amphibia-Reptilia 29: 217-227 - get paper here Stephen Spawls; Tomáš Mazuch& Abubakr Mohammad 2023. Handbook of Amphibians and Reptiles of North-east Africa. Bloomsbury, 640 pp. - get paper here
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