Hemidactylus kyaboboensis

Species of lizard

Hemidactylus kyaboboensis

Scientific classification
Kingdom:  | Animalia
Phylum:  | Chordata
Class:  | Reptilia
Order:  | Squamata
Suborder:  | Gekkota
Family:  | Gekkonidae
Genus:  | Hemidactylus
Species:  |

H. kyaboboensis

Binomial name
Hemidactylus kyaboboensis

Wagner, Leaché & Fujita, 2014[1]

Synonyms

Hemidactylus kyaboboensis Leaché & Fujita, 2010 — nomen nudum

Hemidactylus kyaboboensis is a species of forest geckos from Ghana and Togo. Its type locality is Kyabobo National Park, to which its specific name refers.[1][2] It is the sister species of Hemidactylus fasciatus.[1]

## Description

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Hemidactylus kyaboboensis grow to a maximum snout–vent length of 80 mm (3.1 in) and a maximum total length of 160 mm (6.3 in). The head is broad. The body has indistinct dark crossbands and more prominent whitish stripes and dots. There is a broad crossband on the neck that reaches the lower tip of the ear hole.[1][2]

## Habitat and distribution

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Hemidactylus kyaboboensis have been collected from moist, semi-deciduous rainforests in the Togo Hills of eastern Ghana and Missahöhe in western Togo. These rainforests are habitat islands within the more arid Dahomey Gap.[1]

## References

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1. ^ a b c d e Wagner, Philipp; Adam D. Leaché; Matthew K. Fujita (2014). "Description of four new West African forest geckos of the Hemidactylus fasciatus Gray, 1842 complex, revealed by coalescent species delimitation" (PDF). Bonn Zoological Bulletin. 63 (1): 1–14.
2. ^ a b Hemidactylus kyaboboensis at the Reptarium.cz Reptile Database. Accessed 5 July 2016.

## Further reading

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* Bauer, A. M.; Parham, J. F.; Brown, R. M.; Stuart, B. L.; Grismer, L.; Papenfuss, T. J.; Bohme, W.; Savage, J. M.; Carranza, S.; Grismer, J. L.; Wagner, P.; Schmitz, A.; Ananjeva, N. B.; Inger, R. F. (2011). "Availability of new Bayesian-delimited gecko names and the importance of character-based species descriptions". Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. 278 (1705): 490–492\. doi:10.1098/rspb.2010.1330. PMC 3025678. PMID 20961901.
* Segniagbeto, Gabriel Hoinsoude; Trape, Jean-François; Afiademanyo, Komlan M.; Rödel, Mark-Oliver; Ohler, Annemarie; Dubois, Alain; David, Patrick; Meirte, Danny; Glitho, Isabelle Adolé; Petrozzi, Fabio; Luiselli, Luca (2015). "Checklist of the lizards of Togo (West Africa), with comments on systematics, distribution, ecology, and conservation". Zoosystema. 37 (2): 381–402\. doi:10.5252/z2015n2a7. S2CID 83884179.

## External links

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* "Hemidactylus kyaboboensis". The Encyclopedia of Life.

Taxon identifiers

Hemidactylus kyaboboensis|

* Wikidata: Q20054359
* Wikispecies: Hemidactylus kyaboboensis
* CoL: 3KNBV
* GBIF: 8213255
* iNaturalist: 425074
* NCBI: 797297
* Observation.org: 938235
* Open Tree of Life: 893277
* Plazi: BA9D2BE9-857F-EC2F-B5BB-4F12FAD857A5
* RD: kyaboboensis
* ZooBank: 0E0933B8-0786-4716-969A-2427B3062BB5