Hemidactylus lanzai Šmíd, Mazuch, Nováková, Modrý, Malonza, Elmi, Carranza, and Moravec, 2020

Kirchhof, Sebastian, Wasonga, Victor, Mazuch, Tomáš, Spawls, Stephen & Malonza, Patrick Kinyatta, 2023, An annotated checklist of the herpetofauna of the Sibiloi National Park in northern Kenya based on field surveys, Amphibian & Reptile Conservation (e 324) 17 (1 / 2), pp. 1-18 : 8

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.5281/zenodo.12761910

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.12762230

persistent identifier

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scientific name

Hemidactylus lanzai Šmíd, Mazuch, Nováková, Modrý, Malonza, Elmi, Carranza, and Moravec, 2020
status

 

Hemidactylus lanzai Šmíd, Mazuch, Nováková, Modrý, Malonza, Elmi, Carranza, and Moravec, 2020 View in CoL et al. 2020

Vouchers: NMK-391L (field no. SK16 1021); NMK-383L/1–2 (field nos. SK16 1029, SK16 1033); NMK-395L (field no. SK16 1039); NMK-392L (field no. SK16 1053); NMK-393L (field no. SK16 1037)

Additional tissue samples: SK105 2016

Localities: AB ( R), IL ( R, G, B), KA ( R, B), KF ( R, G), LO ( R)

Remarks: Recently elevated to a full species from the synonymy of its sister species Hemidactylus isolepis Boulenger, 1895 , this small, terrestrial gecko is a typical inhabitant of the dry, semi-desert areas in northern Kenya ( Spawls et al. 2018). This species ( Fig. 4G View Fig ) was one of the most common reptiles in SNP, with 96 individuals recorded. The highest abundance was along the shores of Lake Turkana, where individuals were hiding in the root system under dried reeds, but it also was found in dry laggas and bushland under dead logs, trees, and rocks. It was exclusively active at night, foraging on sand, gravel, and compact soils. The average T b was 34.0 ± 1.5 °C (30.5–35.8 °C; N = 10) with T sub ranging from 24–47 °C and T a ranging from 28–38 °C.

R

Departamento de Geologia, Universidad de Chile

LO

Type Collection

T

Tavera, Department of Geology and Geophysics

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Squamata

Family

Gekkonidae

Genus

Hemidactylus

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