Hemidactylus barodanus BOULENGER, 1901

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Higher Taxa	Gekkonidae, Gekkota, Sauria, Squamata (lizards: geckos)
Subspecies
Common Names	E: Enigmatic gecko
Synonym	Hemidactylus barodanus BOULENGER 1901 Hemidactylus barodanus — WERMUTH 1965: 70 Hemidactylus barodanus — KLUGE 1993 Hemidactylus barodanus — RÖSLER 2000: 85 Hemidactylus barodanus — LARGEN & SPAWLS 2010: 290 Hemidactylus barodanus — SPAWLS et al. 2023: 196
Distribution	Ethiopia (Libah), Somalia, Sudan (Jumhūriyyat) Type locality: Gan Lebar (= Gaan Libaah), Abessynia.
Reproduction	oviparous
Types	Type: BMNH 1946.8.23.94 (and possibly additional specimens).
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Comment	Synonymy: According to Lanza (1983, 1990), H. barodanus is possibly a junior synonym of H. jubensis Boulenger 1895 (as validly represented only by its male syntype: MSNG 28846). Distribution: a doubtful record from Somalia was reported by Gans et al. 1965: 28.
Etymology	Named after “His Highness, the Gaikwar of Baroda, to whose generosity the British Museum is indebted for a selected series of specimens”. Baroda is an older name for what is now Vadodara in Gujarat.
References	Boulenger, G. A. 1901. A list of the batrachians and reptiles obtained by Dr. Donaldson Smith in Somaliland in 1899. Proc. Zool. Soc. London 1901 (I): 47—49 - get paper here 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 Mazuch, T., Janák, V., Velenská, D., Nistri, A., Elmi, H. S. A., & Šmíd, J. 2024. Two new species of Hemidactylus Goldfuss, 1820 (Squamata: Gekkonidae) from the coastal areas of northern Somaliland. African Zoology, 1-24 - 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, Herbert 2015. Bemerkungen über einige Geckos der Zoologischen Staatssammlung München. Gekkota, Suppl. (2): 3-54 Sindaco, R., Razzetti E., Ziliani U., Wasonga V., Carugati C., Fasola M. 2007. A New Species of Hemidactylus from Lake Turkana, Northern Kenya (Squamata: Gekkonidae). Acta Herpetologica 2 (1): 37-48 - get paper here 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 Spawls, Stephen; Tomáš Mazuch & Abubakr Mohammad 2023. Handbook of Amphibians and Reptiles of North-east Africa. Bloomsbury, 640 pp. - get paper here
External links	IUCN Red List National Center for Biotechnology Information Google images

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