Oriental Leaf-toed Gecko

Oriental Leaf-toed Gecko
Oriental Leaf-toed Gecko
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Squamata
Suborder: Sauria
Family: Gekkonidae
Genus: Hemidactylus
Species: H. bowringii
Binomial name
Hemidactylus bowringii
(Gray, 1845)

Oriental Leaf-toed Gecko (Hemidactylus bowringii) is a species of gecko.

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Description

Snout longer than the distance between the eye and the ear-opening, 1.4 times the diameter of the orbit; forehead slightly concave; ear-opening small, roundish. Body and limbs moderate; a slight fold of the skin along the flank. Digits free, moderately dilated, inner well developed; infradigital lamellae obliquely curved, 5 under the thumb, 7 or 8 under the fourth finger, 5 or 6 under the first toe, and 9 or 10 under the fourth toe. Upper surfaces covered with uniform small granular scales, largest on the snout, smallest on the occiput. Rostral four-sided, twice as broad as deep, with median cleft above; nostril pierced between the rostral, the first labial, and three or four nasals; 9 to 11 upper and 7 or 8 lower labials; mental large, triangular, followed by a pair of chin-shields; an outer pair of much smaller chin-shields. Abdominal scales moderate, cycloid, imbricate. Male with a series of preanal pores, interrupted mesially, composed of 13 pores on each side. Tail depressed, rounded, oval in section, covered above with uniform small scales, beneath with a median series of transversely dilated plates. Light brown above, with darker spots, having sometimes a tendency to form four longitudinal bands on the back; frequently small whitish spots on the body and limbs; a dark streak passing through the eye; tail above with small chevron-shaped markings; lower surfaces whitish.[1]

From snout to vent 1.3 inches; tail 2.

Eastern India (Sikkim), Burma and Tenasserim.

Distribution

India, S China,Taiwan, Hong Kong; Vietnam (Ha Noi; Hon Thom Island ); Ku Lao Pan Jang Island, Myanmar. Japan (Ryukyu Islands = Okinawa)

Notes

  1. ^ Boulenger, G. A. (1890) Fauna of British India. Reptilia and Batrachia.

References

  • Liang, Yun-Sheng; Wang, Chin-Shiang 1973 Comparative study of osteology on the House Geckos, Hemidactylus bowringii (Gray) and Hemidactylus frenatus Dumeril & Bibron from Taiwan Fu Jen Studies (7): 63-123

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