Half-finger geckos
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European half finger ( Hemidactylus turcicus ) |
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Gray , 1825 |
The species-rich genus of the half-finger geckos ( Hemidactylus ) belongs to the gecko family (Gekkonidae). The original range of the genus lies in southern Europe, Africa and Asia. The only European species is the European half-finger ( Hemidactylus turcicus ), which was spread throughout the Mediterranean region by the Greeks and Romans and later worldwide by European colonialism. The animals have often colonized new regions as stowaways on ships, including the American double continent and the islands of the Pacific. The African house gecko ( Hemidactylus brookii ) and the Asian house gecko ( Hemidactylus frenatus ) are particularly widespread . The original occurrence of some widespread species can no longer be determined.
features
Half-finger geckos grow four to eight inches long. The tail length corresponds to the head-trunk length . Common features are the lidless eyes and the toes with both adhesive lamellas and claws. They are usually brown or gray-pink in color. Your pupils are vertical.
Way of life
Half-finger geckos live on rocks, logs, and dry stone walls . They reproduce oviparously (lay eggs). In the genus there are some species that reproduce through parthenogenesis (virgin generation). In these species there are only females who reproduce asexually and whose eggs develop from unfertilized egg cells.
species
- Hemidactylus aaronbaueri Giri, 2008
- Hemidactylus acanthopholis Mirza & Sanap, 2014
- Hemidactylus adensis Šmíd, Moravec, Kratochvíl, Nasher, Mazuch, Gvoždík & Carranza, 2015
- Hemidactylus agrius Vanzolini, 1978
- Hemidactylus albituberculatus Trape, 2012
- Hemidactylus albivertebralis Trape & Böhme, 2012
- Hemidactylus albofasciatus Grandison & Soman, 1963
- Hemidactylus albopunctatus (Loveridge, 1947)
- Hemidactylus alkiyumii Carranza & Arnold, 2012
- Hemidactylus anamallensis (Günther, 1875)
- Hemidactylus angulatus Hallowell, 1854
- Hemidactylus ansorgii Boulenger, 1901
- Hemidactylus aporus Boulenger, 1906
- Hemidactylus aquilonius Zug & McMahan, 2007
- Hemidactylus arnoldi Lanza, 1978
- Hemidactylus awashensis Šmíd, Moravec, Kratochvíl, Nasher, Mazuch, Gvoždík & Carranza, 2015
- Hemidactylus barbierii Sindaco, Razzetti & Ziliani, 2007
- Hemidactylus barodanus Boulenger, 1901
- Hemidactylus bavazzanoi Lanza, 1978
- Hemidactylus bayonii Bocage, 1893
- Hemidactylus beninensis Bauer, Tchibozo, Pauwels & Lenglet, 2006
- Hemidactylus biokoensis Wagner, Leaché & Fujita, 2014
- Hemidactylus bouvieri (Bocourt, 1870)
- Hemidactylus bowringii (Gray, 1845)
- Hemidactylus brasilianus (Amaral, 1935)
- African house gecko ( Hemidactylus brookii Gray, 1845)
- Hemidactylus citernii Boulenger, 1912
- Hemidactylus coalescens Wagner, Leaché & Fujita, 2014
- Hemidactylus craspedotus Mocquard, 1890
- Hemidactylus curlei Parker, 1942
- Hemidactylus dawudazraqi Moravec, Kratochvíl, Amr, Jandzik, Šmíd & Gvoždík, 2011
- Hemidactylus depressus Gray, 1842
- Hemidactylus dracaenacolus Rösler & Wranik, 1999
- Hemidactylus echinus O'Shaughnessy, 1875
- Hemidactylus endophis Carranza & Arnold, 2012
- Hemidactylus eniangii Wagner, Leaché & Fujita, 2014
- Hemidactylus fasciatus Gray, 1842
- Hemidactylus festivus Carranza & Arnold, 2012
- Yellow-green house gecko ( Hemidactylus flaviviridis Rüppell, 1835)
- Hemidactylus forbesii Boulenger, 1899
- Hemidactylus foudaii Baha El Din, 2003
- Asiatic house gecko ( Hemidactylus frenatus Duméril & Bibron, 1836)
- Hemidactylus funaiolii Lanza, 1978
- Indo-Pacific gecko ( Hemidactylus garnotii Duméril & Bibron, 1836)
- Hemidactylus giganteus Stoliczka, 1871
- Hemidactylus gleadowi Murray, 1884
- Hemidactylus gracilis Blanford, 1870
- Hemidactylus granchii Lanza, 1978
- Hemidactylus graniticolus Agarwal, Giri & Bauer, 2011
- Hemidactylus granosus (Heyden, 1827)
- Hemidactylus granti Boulenger, 1899
- Hemidactylus greeffii Bocage, 1886
- Hemidactylus gujaratensis Giri, Bauer, Vyas & Patil, 2009
- Hemidactylus hajarensis Carranza & Arnold, 2012
- Hemidactylus homoeolepis Blanford, 1881
- Hemidactylus hunae Deraniyagala, 1937
- Turnip-tailed viper gecko ( Hemidactylus imbricatus (Bauer, Giri, Greenbaum, Jackman, Dharne & Shouche, 2008))
- Hemidactylus inexpectatus Carranza & Arnold, 2012
- Hemidactylus inintellectus Sindaco, Ziliani, Razzetti, Pupin, Grieco, 2009
- Hemidactylus isolepis Boulenger, 1895
- Hemidactylus ituriensis Schmidt, 1919
- Hemidactylus jubensis Boulenger, 1895
- Hemidactylus jumailiae Busais & Joger, 2011
- Hemidactylus kamdemtohami Bauer & Pauwels, 2002
- Hemidactylus karenorum (Theobald, 1868)
- Hemidactylus klauberi Scortecci, 1948
- Hemidactylus kundaensis Chirio & Trape, 2012
- Hemidactylus kushmorensis Murray, 1884
- Hemidactylus kyaboboensis Wagner, Leaché & Fujita, 2014
- Hemidactylus laevis Boulenger, 1901
- Hemidactylus lamaensis Ullenbruch, Grell & Böhme, 2010
- Hemidactylus lankae Deraniyagala, 1953
- Hemidactylus laticaudatus Andersson, 1910
- Hemidactylus lavadeserticus Moravec & Böhme, 1997
- Hemidactylus lemurinus Arnold, 1980
- Hemidactylus leschenaultii Duméril & Bibron, 1836
- Hemidactylus longicephalus Bocage, 1873
- Hemidactylus lopezjuradoi Arnold, Vasconcelos, Harris, Mateo & Carranza, 2008
- Hemidactylus luqueorum Carranza & Arnold, 2012
- Hemidactylus mabouia (Moreau de Jonnès, 1818)
- Hemidactylus macropholis Boulenger, 1896
- Spotted half-fingered gecko ( Hemidactylus maculatus Duméril & Bibron, 1836)
- Hemidactylus makolowodei Bauer, Lebreton, Chirio, Ineich & Talla Kouete, 2006
- Hemidactylus mandebensis Šmíd, Moravec, Kratochvíl, Nasher, Mazuch, Gvoždík & Carranza, 2015
- Hemidactylus masirahensis Carranza & Arnold, 2012
- Hemidactylus matschiei (Tornier, 1901)
- Hemidactylus megalops Parker, 1932
- Hemidactylus mercatorius Gray, 1842
- Hemidactylus mindiae Baha El Din, 2005
- Hemidactylus minutus Vasconcelos & Carranza, 2014
- Hemidactylus modestus (Günther, 1894)
- Hemidactylus mrimaensis Malonza & Bauer, 2014
- Hemidactylus muriceus Peters, 1870
- Hemidactylus newtoni Ferreira, 1897
- Hemidactylus ophiolepis Boulenger, 1903
- Hemidactylus ophiolepoides Lanza, 1978
- Hemidactylus oxyrhinus Boulenger, 1899
- Hemidactylus palaichthus Kluge, 1969
- Hemidactylus parvimaculatus Deraniyagala, 1953
- Hemidactylus paucituberculatus Carranza & Arnold, 2012
- Hemidactylus persicus Anderson, 1872
- Hemidactylus pieresii Kelaart, 1852
- Hemidactylus platycephalus Peters, 1854
- Hemidactylus platyurus (Schneider, 1792)
- Hemidactylus prashadi Smith, 1935
- Hemidactylus principensis Miller, Sellas & Drewes, 2012
- Hemidactylus pseudomuriceus Henle & Böhme, 2003
- Hemidactylus puccionii Calabresi, 1927
- Hemidactylus pumilio Boulenger, 1899
- Hemidactylus reticulatus Beddome, 1870
- Hemidactylus richardsonii (Gray, 1845)
- Hemidactylus robustus Heyden, 1827
- Hemidactylus romeshkanicus Torki, 2011
- Hemidactylus ruspolii Boulenger, 1896
- Hemidactylus saba Busais & Joger, 2011
- Hemidactylus sataraensis Giri & Bauer, 2008
- Hemidactylus scabriceps (Annandale, 1906)
- Hemidactylus shihraensis Busais & Joger, 2011
- Hemidactylus sinaitus Boulenger, 1885
- Hemidactylus smithi Boulenger, 1895
- Hemidactylus somalicus Parker, 1932
- Hemidactylus squamulatus Tornier, 1896
- Hemidactylus stejnegeri Ota & Hikida, 1989
- Hemidactylus tanganicus Loveridge, 1929
- Hemidactylus tasmani Hewitt, 1932
- Hemidactylus taylori Parker, 1932
- Hemidactylus tenkatei Lidth de Jeude, 1895
- Hemidactylus thayene Zug & McMahan, 2007
- Hemidactylus treutleri Mahony, 2009
- Hemidactylus triedrus (Daudin, 1802)
- Hemidactylus tropidolepis Mocquard, 1888
- European half-finger ( Hemidactylus turcicus (Linnaeus, 1758))
- Hemidactylus ulii Šmíd, Moravec, Kratochvíl, Gvoždík, Nasher, Busais, Wilms, Shobrak, Carranza, 2013
- Hemidactylus vietnamensis Darevsky, Kupriyanova & Roshchin, 1984
- Hemidactylus yerburii Anderson, 1895
literature
- Chris Mattison: Lizards of the World. Facts On File, New York NY et al. 1989, ISBN 0-8160-1900-2 .
- Eric R. Pianka, Laurie J. Vitt: Lizards. Windows to the Evolution of Diversity (= Organisms and Environments. Vol. 5). University of California Press, Berkeley CA et al. 2003, ISBN 0-520-23401-4 .
- Manfred Rogner : Lizards. Volume 1: geckos, pinnipeds, agamas, chameleons and iguanas. Ulmer, Stuttgart 1992, ISBN 3-8001-7248-8 .
Individual evidence
- ^ Pianka & Vitt (2003), p. 119.
- ↑ a b c Jiří Šmíd, Jiří Moravec, Lukáš Kratochvíl, Abdul K. Nasher, Tomáš Mazuch, Václav Gvoždík, Salvador Carranza: Multilocus phylogeny and taxonomic revision of the Hemidactylus robustus species group (Reptilia, Gekkonidae) with descriptions of three new species Yemen and Ethiopia . Systematics and Biodiversity 2015: 1–23, doi : 10.1080 / 14772000.2014.996264 .