Barboza's leaf-toed gecko (''Hemidactylus bayonii'') is a
species of
lizard
Lizards are a widespread group of squamate reptiles, with over 7,000 species, ranging across all continents except Antarctica, as well as most oceanic island chains. The group is paraphyletic since it excludes the snakes and Amphisbaenia alt ...
in the
family Gekkonidae. The species is
endemic to
Angola.
Etymology
The
specific name Specific name may refer to:
* in Database management systems, a system-assigned name that is unique within a particular database
In taxonomy, either of these two meanings, each with its own set of rules:
* Specific name (botany), the two-part (bino ...
, ''bayonii'', is in honor of Portuguese naturalist
Francisco Antonio Pinheiro Bayão, who was a planter and administrator in Angola.
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Grayson may refer to:
Places Canada
* Grayson, Saskatchewan
* Rural Municipality of Grayson No. 184, Saskatchewan
United States
* Grayson, California
* Grayson, Georgia
** Grayson High School
* Grayson, Kentucky
* Grayson, Louisiana
* Gray ...
(2011). ''The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles''. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. . (''Hemidactylus bayonii'', p. 20).
Habitat
The preferred natural
habitat of ''H. bayonii'' is
shrubland
Shrubland, scrubland, scrub, brush, or bush is a plant community characterized by vegetation dominated by shrubs, often also including grasses, herbs, and geophytes. Shrubland may either occur naturally or be the result of human activity. It m ...
, at altitudes from sea level to .
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Description
Small for its genus, ''H. bayonii'' may attain a snout-to-vent length (SVL) of about .[
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Reproduction
''H. bayonii'' is oviparous
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References
Further reading
* Bocage JVB (1893). "''Diagnoses de quelques nouvelles espèces de reptiles et batraciens d'Angola''". ''Jornal de Sciencias Mathematicas, Physicas e Naturaes, Academia Real de Sciencias de Lisboa, Segunda Série'' 3: 115–121. (''Hemidactylus bayonii'', new species, pp. 116–117). (in French).
* Ceríaco LMP, Agarwal I, Marques MP, Bauer AM (2020). "A review of the genus ''Hemidactylus'' Goldfuss, 1820 (Squamata: Gekkonidae) from Angola, with the description of two new species". ''Zootaxa'' 4746 (1): 1–71. (''Hemidactylus bayonii'', p. 20).
* Rösler H (2000). "''Kommentierte Liste der rezent, subrezent und fossil bekannten Geckotaxa (Reptilia: Gekkonomorpha)''". ''Gekkota'' 2: 28–153. (''Hemidactylus bayonii'', p. 85). (in German).
Endemic fauna of Angola
Hemidactylus
Reptiles described in 1893
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