Newton's leaf-toed gecko
Appearance
Newton's leaf-toed gecko | |
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Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Reptilia |
Order: | Squamata |
Family: | Gekkonidae |
Genus: | Hemidactylus |
Species: | H. newtoni
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Binomial name | |
Hemidactylus newtoni |
Newton's leaf-toed gecko (Hemidactylus newtoni) is a species of lizard in the family Gekkonidae.
Etymology
[edit]The specific name, newtoni, is in honor of Portuguese botanist Colonel Francesco Newton.[2]
Geographic range
[edit]H. newtoni is endemic to the island of Annobón in Equatorial Guinea.[1]
Reproduction
[edit]Taxonomy
[edit]H. newtoni was described and named by Júlio Bethencourt Ferreira in 1897.
References
[edit]- ^ a b c Hemidactylus newtoni at the Reptarium.cz Reptile Database. Accessed 2018-02-26.
- ^ 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 newtoni, p. 189).
Further reading
[edit]- Ferreira, J. Bethencourt (1897). "Sobre um Hemidactylus novo da ilha de Anno Bom ". Jornal de Sciencias, Mathematicas, Physicas e Naturaes, Academia Real das Sciencias de Lisboa, Segunda Série 4: 249–251. (Hemidactylus newtoni, new species). (in Portuguese).