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Ptyodactylus ragazzii ANDERSON, 1898

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Higher TaxaPhyllodactylidae, Gekkota, Sauria, Squamata (lizards: geckos)
Subspecies 
Common NamesE: Ragazzi’s Fan-footed gecko 
SynonymPtyodactylus hasselquistii var. ragazzi ANDERSON 1898: 69
Ptyodactylus hasselquistii ragazzii — KLUGE 1993
Ptyodactylus hasselquistii ragazzii — RÖSLER 1995: 151
Ptyodactylus ragazzii — SCHLEICH, KÄSTLE & KABISCH 1996: 244
Ptyodactylus ragazzii — DE LA RIVA & PADIAL 2008 
DistributionS Algeria, Libya, Mali, Niger, Burkina Faso, Nigeria, Togo, Benin, Chad, Cameroon, Sudan (Jumhūriyyat), Ethiopia, Egypt, N Somalia, Mauritania, Djibouti

Type locality: Egypt (restricted to the relalively mesic environment of Djebel (= Gebel) Elba (22°10’ N 36°20’ E). Restricted to Ghinda, Erythrea by LOVERIDGE 1947 (fide WERMUTH 1965).  
Reproductionoviparous 
TypesSyntypes: BMNH 1896.5.19.12-18 
Diagnosis 
CommentSynonymy: Ptyodactylus hasselquistii var. togensis TORNIER 1901 has been considered as a synonym of P. ragazzi (e.g. HEIMES 1987) but more recently treated as valid species.

Distribution: not in Israel fide BAR & HAIMOVITCH 2012. Anderson 1898 actually give the type locality as “Eritrea and Shoa”. See map in Trape et al. 2012: 266 (who don’t show this species in Ghana). See map in METALLINOU et al. 2015: 210 (Fig. 1). 
EtymologyNamed after Dr. Vincenzo Ragazzi (1856-1929) of the Modena Natural History Society, who explored and collected in Ethiopia. He was a physician and was posted to the Italian research station, Let Marefia, Ethiopia (1884), later serving as its Director for several years. 
References
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  • Baha el Din, S. 2006. A guide to the reptiles and amphibians of Egypt. The American University in Cairo Press, Cairo. xvi + 359 pp.
  • Baha EL DIN, S. M. 1999. On the specific status of Ptyodactylus ragazzii ANDERSON, 1898 and its occurence in Egypt (Squamata: Sauria: Gekkonidae). Herpetozoa 12 (1-2): 39-43 - get paper here
  • BAUER,A.M.; S. TCHIBOZO, O.S.G. PAUWELS & G. LENGLET 2006. A review of the gekkotan lizards of Bénin, with the description of a new species of Hemidactylus (Squamata: Gekkonidae). Zootaxa 1242: 1-20 - get paper here
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  • Chirio, L. & Lebreton, M. 2007. Atlas des reptiles du Cameroun. MNHN, IRD, Paris 688 pp.
  • Froufe, E., D.V. Goncalves, J.C. Brito & D.J. Harris 2013. Nuclear and mitochondrial markers reveal the existence of several geographically concordant lineages within a Sahelian gecko species, Ptyodactylus ragazzii Amphibia-Reptilia, 34(1): 85-93. - get paper here
  • Heimes, P. 1987. Beitrag zur Systematik der Fächerfinger (Sauria: Gekkonidae: Ptyodactylus). Salamandra 23 (4): 212-235 - get paper here
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