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Hemidactylus megalops PARKER, 1932

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Higher TaxaGekkonidae, Gekkota, Sauria, Squamata (lizards: geckos)
Subspecies 
Common NamesE: Parker's Leaf-toed Gecko 
SynonymHemidactylus megalops PARKER 1932: 345
Hemidactylus megalops — WERMUTH 1965: 81
Hemidactylus megalops — KLUGE 1993
Hemidactylus megalops — RÖSLER 2000: 87
Hemidactylus megalops — RÖSLER 2015 
DistributionSomalia

Type locality: Sol Haud, British-Somaliland.  
Reproductionoviparous 
TypesHolotype: BMNH 1931.7.20.149, male; paratypes: BMNH 
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EtymologyNamed after Greek megalos (μεγάλος), from Greek megas (μέγας), great, large, big + Greek ops (οπς), eye. ["...eye as long as its distance from the nostril…"]. 
References
  • 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
  • Parker, H. W. 1942. The lizards of British Somaliland. Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool. Harvard 91: 1—101 - get paper here
  • Parker,H.W. 1932. Two collections af amphibians and reptiles from British Somaliland. Proc. Zool. Soc. London 1932: 335-367
  • 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
  • Spawls, Stephen; Tomáš Mazuch & Abubakr Mohammad 2023. Handbook of Amphibians and Reptiles of North-east Africa. Bloomsbury, 640 pp. - get paper here
 
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