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Hemidactylus lemurinus ARNOLD, 1980

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Higher TaxaGekkonidae, Gekkota, Sauria, Squamata (lizards: geckos)
Subspecies 
Common NamesE: Dhofar Leaf-toed Gecko, Oman Ghost Leaf-toed Gecko 
SynonymHemidactylus lemurinus ARNOLD 1980: 280
Hemidactylus lemurinus — KLUGE 1993
Hemidactylus lemurinus — RÖSLER 2000: 86
Hemidactylus lemurinus — RÖSLER 2015 
DistributionOman (Dhofar), Yemen

Type locality: Dhofar, Oman  
Reproductionoviparous 
TypesHolotype: BMNH 1977.986, male 
DiagnosisDiagnosis: A medium-sized species of Hemidactylus (up to 68 mm from snout to vent) with slender limbs and a relatively slender, evenly tapered, scarcely depressed tail (about as long as head plus body in adults), very fine scaling without enlarged tubercles, two pairs of postmentals, the more median being the larger but not more than 3/4 length of mental, 4-8 preanal pores in both sexes, large adhesive pads on digits with 6-7 lamellae beneath first hind toe, 10-11 beneath third and 11-12 beneath fourth, a row of expanded subcaudal scales extending forwards almost to tail base and pale colouring often involving a weak pattern of rather darker transverse bars. Amongst the Hemidactylus of Arabia and neighbouring areas, superficially most similar to H. flaviviridis but snout shorter and broader, limbs more slender, tail thinner, not strongly flattened and without tubercles or clearly defined verticils, postmentals shorter, preanal pores present instead of femoral ones and distal sections of digits shorter. Other Hemidactylus in the region with more or less homogeneous scaling (e.g. H. laevis, H. rncgalops, some H. homoeolepis populations, H. oxyrhinus) are all small with small digital pads and differ in several other features (Arnold 1980: 280).


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Comment 
Etymologynamed after Latin “lemures”, the ghosts or spectres. 
References
  • Arnold E N 1980. The scientific results of the Oman flora and fauna survey 1977 (Dhofar). The reptiles and amphibians of Dhofar, southern Arabia. JOURNAL OF OMAN STUDIES SPECIAL REPORT (No. 2): 273-332 - get paper here
  • Ball, L.D. & Borrell, J.S. 2016. An inventory of herpetofauna from Wadi Sayq, Dhofar, Oman. Journal of Threatened Taxa 8 (12): 9454-9460 - get paper here
  • Busais, S. M., Alrahowi, H. M., & Abo-Alib, W. A. 2022. New Distributional Records of Some Lizards from Abyan Governorate, Yemen. [in Arabic] Samarra Journal of Pure and Applied Science, 4(2) - get paper here
  • Carranza S, Xipell M, Tarroso P, Gardner A, Arnold EN, Robinson MD, et al. 2018. Diversity, distribution and conservation of the terrestrial reptiles of Oman (Sauropsida, Squamata). PLoS One 13 (2): e0190389 - get paper here
  • Carranza, Salvador; Johannes Els; Bernat Burriel-Carranza 2021. A field guide to the reptiles of Oman. Madrid : Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, 223 pp. [review in HR 53 (3): 531] - get paper here
  • Gardner, A.S. 2013. The amphibians and reptiles of Oman and the UAE. Edition Chimaira, 480 pp.
  • Gebhart, J. 2013. Oman, quer durch`s Weihrauchland - ein Reisetagebuch. L@CERTIDAE (Eidechsen Online) 2013 [8]: 142-159 - get paper here
  • Grossmann, W., KOWALSKI, T., ZWANZIG, B.-M. & ZILGER, H.-J. 2018. Weitere Angaben zur Habitatwahl und Verbreitung des Geisterhalbfingers Hemidactylus lemurinus Arnold, 1980 im Sultanat Oman. Sauria 40 (2): 79-83 - 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. & Jeremcenko, V.K. 2008. The reptiles of the Western Palearctic. Edizioni Belvedere, Latina (Italy), 579 pp. - 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
  • van der Kooij, Jeroen 2001. The herpetofauna of the Sultanate of Oman: Part 2: the geckoes. Podarcis 1 (4): 105-123 - get paper here
 
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