Steudner's dwarf gecko (''Tropiocolotes steudneri''), also
commonly known as the Algerian sand gecko and Steudner's pigmy gecko, 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 native to
North Africa and the
Middle East.
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 ...
, ''steudneri'', is in honor of
Hermann Steudner
Carl Theodor Hermann Steudner (1 September 1832 – 10 April 1863) was a botanist and an explorer of Africa.
Education and early work
Steudner was born in Greiffenberg, located in Silesia, but grew up in Görlitz. He studied botany, mineralogy ...
, who was a naturalist and explorer.
[ Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011). ''The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles''. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. . (''Tropiocolotes steudneri'', p. 253).]
Geographic range
''T. steudneri'' is found in
Algeria,
Egypt,
Ethiopia,
Jordan, southeastern
Libya, and northern
Sudan
Sudan ( or ; ar, السودان, as-Sūdān, officially the Republic of the Sudan ( ar, جمهورية السودان, link=no, Jumhūriyyat as-Sūdān), is a country in Northeast Africa. It shares borders with the Central African Republic t ...
, and possibly in
Iran.
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Reproduction
''T. steudneri'' is oviparous
Oviparous animals are animals that lay their eggs, with little or no other embryonic development within the mother. This is the reproductive method of most fish, amphibians, most reptiles, and all pterosaurs, dinosaurs (including birds), and ...
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References
Further reading
* Boulenger GA (1885). ''Catalogue of the Lizards in the British Museum (Natural History). Second Edition. Volume I. Geckonidæ ...'' London: Trustees of the British Museum (Natural History). (Taylor and Francis, printers). xii + 436 pp. + Plates I–XXXII. (''Stenodactylus petersii'', new species, pp. 18–19 + Plate III, figures 4–4a; ''Gymnodactylus steudneri'', new combination, p. 34).
* Peters W (1869). "''Eine Mittheilung über neue Saurier'' (Chaunolæmus multicarinatus, Tropidolepisma Richardi ''und'' Gymnodactylus Steudneri) ''und Batrachier'' (Cyclorhamphus fasciatus ''und'' Hyla gracilenta)". ''Monatsberichte der Königlich Preussischen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin'' 1869: 786–790. (''Gymnodactylus steudneri'', new species, pp. 788–789). (in German).
* Sindaco R, Jeremčenko VK (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''. (Monographs of the ''Societas Herpetologica Italica''). Latina, Italy: Edizioni Belvedere. 580 pp. .
* Trape J-F, Trape S, Chirio L (2012). ''Lézards, crocodiles et tortues d'Afrique occidentale et du Sahara''. Paris: IRD Orstom. 503 pp. . (in French).
steudneri
Reptiles described in 1869
Taxa named by Wilhelm Peters
Reptiles of Africa
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