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
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Squamata
Family: Gekkonidae
Genus: Hemiphyllodactylus
Species:
H. harterti
Binomial name
Hemiphyllodactylus harterti
(F. Werner, 1900)
Synonyms[1]
  • Lepidodactylus harterti
    F. Werner, 1900
  • Hemiphyllodactylus harterti
    Chan-ard et al., 1999

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

  1. Hemiphyllodactylus harterti at the Reptarium.cz Reptile Database
  2. 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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