Hemidactylus newtoni FERREIRA, 1897

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Higher Taxa	Gekkonidae, Gekkota, Sauria, Squamata (lizards: geckos)
Subspecies
Common Names	E: Newton's Leaf-toed Gecko
Synonym	Hemidactylus newtoni FERREIRA 1897 Hemidactylus newtoni — LOVERIDGE 1947: 193 Hemidactylus newtoni — WERMUTH 1965: 81 Hemidactylus newtoni — KLUGE 1993 Hemidactylus newtoni — RÖSLER 2000: 87 Hemidactylus newtoni — RÖSLER 2015
Distribution	Equatorial Guinea (Annobon Island) Type locality: Anno Bom Island.
Reproduction	oviparous
Types	Syntypes: NMW (= NHMW) 17800; MB (Museu Bocage), lost in fire 1978
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Comment	Abundance: only known from its original description (Meiri et al. 2017). Distribution: For a map with localities in Equatorial Guinea see SÁNCHEZ-VIALAS et al. 2022. Reference images: see Uetz et al. 2024 for high-resolution reference images for this species.
Etymology	Named after Colonel Francesco Newton (1864-1909), a Portuguese botanist who collected in Sao Tome (1888) and Timor (1896).
References	Beolens, Bo; Michael Watkins, and Michael Grayson 2011. The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, USA - get paper here Ferreira, J. Bethencourt 1897. Sobre um "Hemidactylus" novo da ilha de Anno Boni. Jornal de Sciencias Mathematicas, Physicas e Naturaes, Lisboa, 4:249—251 - get paper here Gemel, R.; G. Gassner & S. Schweiger 2019. Katalog der Typen der Herpetologischen Sammlung des Naturhistorischen Museums Wien – 2018. Ann. Naturhist. Mus. Wien, B 121: 33–248 - get paper here Jesus, José; Antonio Brehm and D. James Harris 2005. Phylogenetic relationships of Hemidactylus geckos from the Gulf of Guinea islands: patterns of natural colonizations and anthropogenic introductions estimated from mitochondrial and nuclear DNA sequences. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 34 (3): 480-485 - 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 Meiri, Shai; Aaron M. Bauer, Allen Allison, Fernando Castro-Herrera, Laurent Chirio, Guarino Colli, Indraneil Das, Tiffany M. Doan, Frank Glaw, Lee L. Grismer, Marinus Hoogmoed, Fred Kraus, Matthew LeBreton, Danny Meirte, Zoltán T. Nagy, Cristiano d 2017. Extinct, obscure or imaginary: the lizard species with the smallest ranges. Diversity and Distributions 24 (2): 262-273 - get paper here Patel, S. V., Sahu, J. S., Fullonton, S., Samal, A., & Patel, A. 2023. Range expansion and a new district record for the Laudankia Vine snake (Ahaetulla laudankia) at Palghar, Maharashtra, India. Reptiles & Amphibians 30 (1): e18078-e18078 - 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 SÁNCHEZ-VIALAS, A., CALVO-REVUELTA, M. & DE LA RIVA, I. 2022. Synopsis of the terrestrial Reptiles of Equatorial Guinea. Zootaxa 5202 (1): 1-197 - get paper here Uetz, P.H.; Patel, M.; Gbadamosi, Z.; Nguyen, A.; Shoope, S. 2024. A Reference Database of Reptile Images. Taxonomy 4: 723–732 - get paper here
External links	IUCN Red List National Center for Biotechnology Information Google images

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