Hemidactylus echinus O’SHAUGHNESSY, 1875

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Higher Taxa	Gekkonidae, Gekkota, Sauria, Squamata (lizards: geckos)
Subspecies
Common Names	E: Hedgehog Leaf-toed Gecko
Synonym	Hemidactylus echinus O’SHAUGHNESSY 1875 : 264 Hemidactylus echinus – BOULENGER 1885: 123 Hemidactylus echinus – LOVERIDGE 1947: 191 Hemidactylus echinus — BROADLEY 1998 Hemidactylus echinus — HENLE & BÖHME 2003 Hemidactylus echinus — RÖSLER 2015
Distribution	W Democratic Republic of the Congo, Cameroon, Zaire, Central African Republic ?, Gabon Type locality: Gabon
Reproduction	oviparous
Types	Type: BMNH 1962.191
Diagnosis	Additional details, e.g. a detailed description or comparisons (1592 characters), are available for collaborators and contributors. Please contact us for details.
Comment	Distribution: Presence in the Central African Republic has not been confirmed. Not in Gabon fide PAUWELS & VANDE WEGHE 2008 (records of this species from Gabon may represent H. muriceus).
Etymology	Named after Greek ἐχῖνος, echinos (hedgehog or urchin) for the “series of prickles or short spines along the side of the body”.
References	Bauer, Aaron M., Matthew LeBreton, Laurent Chirio, Ivan Ineich and Marcell T. Kouete 2006. New species of Hemidactylus (Squamata: Gekkonidae) from Cameroon. African Journal of Herpetology 55 (2):83-93. - get paper here Boulenger, G.A. 1885. Catalogue of the lizards in the British Museum (Nat. Hist.) I. Geckonidae, Eublepharidae, Uroplatidae, Pygopodidae, Agamidae. London: 450 pp. - get paper here Broadley, D.G. 1998. The reptilian fauna of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (Congo-Kinshasa). In: Schmidt, K.P. and Noble, G.K., Contributions to the Herpetology of the Belgian Congo... [reprint of the 1919 and 1923 papers]. SSAR Facsimile reprints in Herpetology, 780 pp. Carlino, P. & Pauwels, O.S.G. 2015. An Updated Reptile List of Ivindo National Park, the Herpetofaunal Hotspot of Gabon. Bull. Chicago Herp. Soc. 50(3): 25-39 - get paper here Chirio, L. & Lebreton, M. 2007. Atlas des reptiles du Cameroun. MNHN, IRD, Paris 688 pp. Chirio, Laurent and Ivan Ineich 2006. Biogeography of the reptiles of the Central African Republic. African Journal of Herpetology 55(1):23-59. - get paper here HENLE, K. & W. BÖHME 2003. A new species of Hemidactylus (Squamata: Gekkonidae) from West Africa, and comments on species hitherto confused with H. muriceus. African Journal of Herpetology 52(1): 23-38 - 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 O’Shaughnessy,A.W.E. 1876. Descriptions of new species of Gekkotidae in the British Museum Collection. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (4) 16: 262-266 - get paper here Pauwels, O. S. G. B. Le Garff, I. Ineich, P. Carlino, I. Melcore, L. Boundenga, C. Vigna, T. Stévart, K. Jeffery, C. Orbell, J.-B. Squarcini, J. P. Vande weghe and L. J. T. White 2016. Miscellanea Herpetologica Gabonica V & VI. Bull. Chicago Herp. Soc. 51: 177 - get paper here Portik DM, Jongsma GFM, Kouete MT, Scheinberg LA, Freiermuth B, Tapondjou WP, Blackburn DC. 2016. A survey of amphibians and reptiles in the foothills of Mount Kupe, Cameroon. Amphibian & Reptile Conservation 10(2) [Special Section]: 37–67 (e131) Rösler, Herbert 2017. Gecko-Chorologie (Squamata: Gekkota). Gekkota (4): 1-160 Rösler, Herbert 2015. Bemerkungen über einige Geckos der Zoologischen Staatssammlung München. Gekkota, Suppl. (2): 3-54 Scott Jr., N.J. 1982. The herpetofauna of forest litter plots from Cameroon, Africa. In: Scott, N.J. (ed.) Herpetological communities [an SSAR symposium]. US Fish and Wildlife Service, Wildl. Res. Rep. 13: 145-150
External links	IUCN Red List Google images

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