Stenodactylus slevini
Stenodactylus slevini, also known commonly as Slevin's sand gecko or Slevin's short-fingered gecko, is a species of lizard in the family Gekkonidae. The species is native to Western Asia.
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Order: | Squamata |
| Family: | Gekkonidae |
| Genus: | Stenodactylus |
| Species: | S. slevini |
| Binomial name | |
| Stenodactylus slevini G. Haas, 1957 | |
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Etymology
The specific name, slevini, is in honor of American herpetologist Joseph Richard Slevin.[3]
Geographic range
S. slevini is found in Bahrain, southern Iraq, southern Jordan, Kuwait, Qatar, northwestern Saudi Arabia, western United Arab Emirates, and Yemen.[2]
Habitat
The preferred natural habitat of S. slevini is desert, at altitudes from sea level to 1,000 m (3,300 ft).[1]
Description
A medium-sized species for its genus, S. slevini may attain a snout-to-vent length (SVL) of 6.3 cm (2.5 in).[2]
References
- Soorae P, Amr ZSS, Al Johany AMH, Els J, Anderson S, Papenfuss T, Sindaco R (2012). "Stenodactylus slevini ". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2012.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
- Species Stenodactylus slevini at The Reptile Database www.reptile-database.org.
- Beolens B, Watkins M, Grayson M (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. ISBN 9781421401355. (Stenodactylus slevini, p. 245).
Further reading
- Arnold EN (1980). "Reptiles of Saudi Arabia. A review of the lizard genus Stenodactylus (Reptilia: Gekkonidae)". Fauna of Saudi Arabia 2: 368–404. (Stenodactylus slevini, p. 393).
- Disi AM, Modrý D, Nečas P, Rifai L (2001). Amphibians and Reptiles of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan. Frankfurt am Main, Germany: Chimaira. 408 pp. ISBN 9783930612123.
- Haas G (1957). "Some Amphibians and Reptiles from Arabia". Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences, Fourth Series 29: 47–86. (Stenodactylus slevini, new species, pp. 54–56, Figure 3; S. arabicus, new species, pp. 56–57, Figure 4).
- Rösler H (2008). "Kommentierte Liste der rezent, subrezent und fossil bekannte Geckotaxa (Reptilia: Gekkonomorpha)". Gekkota 2: 28–153. (Stenodactylus slevini, p. 115). (in German).
- Sindaco R, Jeremčenko V (2008). The Reptiles of the Western Palearctic. 1. Annotated Checklist and Distributional Atlas of the Turtles, Crocodiles, Amphisbaenians and Lizards of Europe, North Africa, Middle East and Central Asia. (Monogrphs of the Societas Herpetologica Italica). Latina, Italy: Edizioni Belvedere. 580 pp. ISBN 978-88-89504-14-7.
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