Hemiphyllodactylus harterti
Hemiphyllodactylus harterti, also known commonly as the Bintang slender gecko or Hartert's slender gecko, is a species of gecko, a lizard in the family Gekkonidae. The species is endemic to Peninsular Malaysia.[1]
| Hemiphyllodactylus harterti | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Order: | Squamata |
| Family: | Gekkonidae |
| Genus: | Hemiphyllodactylus |
| Species: | H. harterti |
| Binomial name | |
| Hemiphyllodactylus harterti (F. Werner, 1900) | |
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Etymology
The specific name, harterti, is in honor of German ornithologist Ernst Johann Otto Hartert.[2]
Reproduction
Unlike other species of Hemiphyllodactylus which are unisexual (females only), H. harterti is bisexual (males and females).[1]
References
- Hemiphyllodactylus harterti at the Reptarium.cz Reptile Database
- Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. ISBN 978-1-4214-0135-5. (Hemiphyllodactylus hartert, p. 117).
Further reading
- Werner F (1900). "Beschreibung einiger noch unbekannter neotropischer und indischer Reptilien ". Zoologischer Anzeiger 23: 196–198. (Lepidodactylus harterti, new species, p. 196). (in German).
- Zug GR (2010). "Speciation and Dispersal in a Low Diversity Taxon: The Slender Geckos Hemiphyllodactylus (Reptilia, Gekkonidae)". Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology (631): xi + 70 pp. (Hemiphyllodactylus harterti, pp. 43–44).
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