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Mount Sinai gecko

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Mount Sinai gecko
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Squamata
Family: Gekkonidae
Genus: Hemidactylus
Species:
H. mindiae
Binomial name
Hemidactylus mindiae

The Mount Sinai gecko (Hemidactylus mindiae) is a species of lizard in the family Gekkonidae. The species is endemic to Egypt.

Habitat

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The natural habitats of H. mindiae are rocky areas, caves, rural gardens, and urban areas.

Conservation status

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The Mount Sinai gecko is threatened by habitat loss.

Etymology

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The specific epithet, mindiae, commemorates the late Mindy Baha El Din, an environmentalist and herpetologist from Egypt. She was the wife of Sherif Baha El Din, also a herpetologist, who described this lizard as a new species.[3]

References

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  1. ^ El Din, S.B. (2006). "Hemidactylus mindiae". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2006: e.T61508A12495072. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2006.RLTS.T61508A12495072.en. Retrieved 16 November 2021.
  2. ^ "Hemidactylus mindiae ". ITIS (Integrated Taxonomic Information System). www.itis.gov.
  3. ^ 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. (Hemidactylus mindiae, p. 178).

Further reading

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  • Baha El Din, Sherif M. (2005). "An overview of Egyptian species of Hemidactylus (Gekkonidae), with the description of a new species from the high mountains of South Sinai". Zoology in the Middle East 34: 11–26. (Hemidactylus mindiae, new species). (in English, plus abstract in German).