Hemidactylus mindiae BAHA EL DIN, 2005

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Higher Taxa	Gekkonidae, Gekkota, Sauria, Squamata (lizards: geckos)
Subspecies
Common Names	E: Mount Sinai-Gecko G: Mount Sinai-Gecko
Synonym	Hemidactylus mindiae BAHA EL DIN 2005 Hemidactylus mindiae — SINDACO & JEREMČENKO 2008
Distribution	Egypt (South Sinai), Jordan Type locality: St. Katherine, South Sinai, Egypt (28° 34’ N, 33° 58’ E), elevation 1500 m.
Reproduction	oviparous
Types	Holotype: FMNH 262242, adult male; paratypes: FMNH, SMB
Diagnosis
Comment	Distribution: see map in Pola et al. 2023: 4 (Fig. 1).
Etymology	Named after the author’s wife Mindy.
References	AMR, Z. & MODRÝ, D. & ABU BAKER, M. & QARQAS, M. & AL ZAIDANYEN, J. & MORAVEC, J 2007. First record of Hemidactylus mindiae BAHA EL DIN, 2005 from Jordan. Herpetozoa 20: 73- 75 - get paper here Baha el Din, S. 2006. A guide to the reptiles and amphibians of Egypt. The American University in Cairo Press, Cairo. xvi + 359 pp. Baha El Din, Sherif M. 2005. An overview of Egyptian species of Hemidactylus (Gekkonidae), with the description of a new species from the high mountains of South Sinai. Zoology in the Middle East 34: 11-26 - get paper here Beolens, Bo; Michael Watkins, and Michael Grayson 2011. The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, USA - get paper here Disi, Ahmad; Zuhair S. Amr, Nashat Hamidan 2014. Diversity, Threats, and Conservation of the Terrestrial and Freshwater Herpetofauna of Jordan. Russ. J. Herpetol. 21 (3): 221-233 - get paper here MORAVEC, JIŘÍ; LUKÁŠ KRATOCHVÍL, ZUAIR S. AMR, DAVID JANDZIK, JIŘÍ ŠMÍD, & VÁCLAV GVOŽDÍK 2011. High genetic differentiation within the Hemidactylus turcicus complex (Reptilia: Gekkonidae) in the Levant, with comments on the phylogeny and systematics of the genus. Zootaxa 2894: 21–38 Pola, Lukáš; Doubravka Velenská, Kseniia Marianna Prondzynska, Vojtěch Hejduk, Aleš Zíka, Tomáš Winkelhöfer, Mohammad A. Abu Baker, Zuhair S. Amr & Jiří Šmíd 2023. More geckos, fewer gaps: diversity and distribution of Hemidactylus geckos (Squamata: Gekkonidae) in Jordan. Systematics and Biodiversity, 21:1, 2237033, - get paper here 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 J, Moravec J, Kratochvíl L, Gvoždík V, Nasher AK, Busais SM, Wilms T, Shobrak MY, Carranza S 2013. Two newly recognized species of Hemidactylus (Squamata, Gekkonidae) from the Arabian Peninsula and Sinai, Egypt. ZooKeys 355: 79–107 - 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 http://www.iucn.org/places/medoffice/cd_rep_amp/materials/reptile_summery… Google images

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