Pristurus insignis BLANFORD, 1881

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Higher Taxa	Sphaerodactylidae, Gekkota, Sauria, Squamata (lizards: geckos)
Subspecies
Common Names	E: Blanford's Rock Gecko
Synonym	Pristurus insignis BLANFORD 1881 Pristurus insignis — BOULENGER 1885: 54 Pristurus insignis — LOVERIDGE 1947: 73 Pristurus insignis — WERMUTH 1965: 150 Pristurus insignis — KLUGE 1993 Pristurus insignis — RÖSLER 2000: 106 Pristurus insignis — RAZZETTI et al. 2011 Pristurus insignis — RÖSLER 2018: 23
Distribution	Socotra Island (Yemen) Type locality: Socotra Island.
Reproduction	oviparous
Types	Type: BMNH 1881.7.22.12-13 (and possibly additional specimens).
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References	Arnold, E.N. 2009. Relationships, evolution and biogeography of Semaphore geckos, Pristurus (Squamata, Sphaerodactylidae) based on morphology. Zootaxa 2060: 1-21 - get paper here Blanford, W. T. 1881. Notes on the lizards collected in Socotra by Professor l. Bayley Balfour. Proc. Zool. Soc. London 1881: 464-469. - get paper here Boulenger, G.A. 1885. Catalogue of the lizards in the British Museum (Nat. Hist.) I. Geckonidae, Eublepharidae, Uroplatidae, Pygopodidae, Agamidae. London: 450 pp. - get paper here Fasola, M., Razzetti, E., Sindaco, R. et al. 2020. Ecological preferences of the endemic reptile community of Socotra. Rend. Fis. Acc. Lincei (2020) - get paper here Garcia-Porta, Joan; Hernán E. Morales, Elena Gómez-Díaz, Roberto Sindaco, Salvador Carranza 2016. Patterns of diversification in islands: A comparative study across three gecko genera in the Socotra Archipelago. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2016.02.007 - 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 Razzetti, Edoardo; ROBERTO SINDACO, CRISTINA GRIECO, FRANCESCA PELLA, UGO ZILIANI, FABIO PUPIN, ELISA RISERVATO, DANIELE PELLITTERI-ROSA, LUCA BUTIKOFER, AHMED SAEED SULEIMAN, BADAR AWADH AL-ASEILY, CATERINA CARUGATI, ELEONORA BONCOMPAGNI & MAURO FAS 2011. Annotated checklist and distribution of the Socotran Archipelago Herpetofauna (Reptilia). Zootaxa 2826: 1–44 - get paper here Rösler, H. 2000. Kommentierte Liste der rezent, subrezent und fossil bekannten Geckotaxa (Reptilia: Gekkonomorpha). Gekkota 2: 28-153 Rösler, H. 2018. Haftbar -- Die einzigartige Welt der Geckos. Begleitheft zur Ausstellung im Naturkundemuseum Erfurt Mai-Aug 2018, 96 pp. Rösler, H. & Wranik, W. 2004. A key and annotated checklist to the reptiles of the Socotra archipelago. Fauna of Arabia 20: 505-534 Rösler, H. & Wranik, W. 2006. Die Gecko-Inseln. 2. Teil: Die tagaktiven Geckos der Gattung Pristurus RÜPPEL, 1835, vom Sokotra Archipel, Jemen (Reptilia: Sauria: Gekkonidae). Sauria 28 (4): 17-26 - get paper here Rösler, H.; Köhler, J. & Böhme, W. 2008. A new species of the diurnal gekkonid genus Pristurus Rüppell, 1835 from the Red Sea island Hanish al-Kabir, Yemen. Amphibia-Reptilia 29: 217-227 - get paper here Rösler,H. & Wranik,W. 2000. Die Geckofauna des Sokotra-Archipels (Sauria: Gekkonidae). Gekkota 2: 20-27
External links	IUCN Red List National Center for Biotechnology Information http://www.herpetofauna.at/gallery/korfu/pages/typhlops_vermicularis_02.htm http://www.seh-herpetology.org/images/atlas/pdf/ophidia/typver.pdf http://www.seh-herpetology.org/sites/seh-herpetology.org/files/uploads… https://www.facebook.com/groups/stshc/posts/377739817783956 Google images

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