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A new forest‐dwelling hemidactylus (squamata: Gekkonidae) from Gabon, West Africa
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Herpetology • Authors: AaronM. Bauer --- Villanova University, USA OlivierS.G. Pauwels --- Institut Royal des Sciences naturelles de Belgique, BelgiumA distinctive new species of forest‐dwelling gecko of the genus Hemidactylus is described from Mt. Iboundji in south central Gabon. The species is distinguished from other equatorial West African members of the genus by its 18–19 rows of small dorsal... -
A new species of hemidactylus (Squamata: Gekkonidae) from West Africa, and comments on species hitherto confused with H. Muriceus
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: The Journal of the Herpetological Association of Africa • Authors: Klaus Henle --- Umweltforschungszentrum Leipzig‐Halle GmbH, Germany Wolfgang Böhme --- Zoologisches Forschungsinstitut und Museum Alexander Koenig, GermanyWe describe a new species of Hemidactylus, H. pseudomuriceus. It is very similar to H. muriceus but differs in the number of internasal granules and has a central row of enlarged instead of narrow subcaudal scales. The new species lives... -
A new species of hemidactylus (squamata: Gekkonidae) from Egypt
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: The Journal of the Herpetological Association of Africa • Authors: SherifM. Baha El Din --- Egyptian Environmental Affairs Agency, EgyptA new species of Hemidactylus is described from south‐east Egypt. The species most noticeably differs from other Hemidactylus in possessing a distinctive barred pattern, overall coarse scalation, and short digits that hardly protrude beyond the basal dilation. The species is... -
New species of Hemidactylus (Squamata: Gekkonidae) from Cameroon
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: The Journal of the Herpetological Association of Africa • Authors: AaronM. Bauer --- Villanova University, USA Matthew Lebreton --- Cameroon Biodiversity Conservation Society, Cameroon Laurent Chirio --- Muséum national d'Histoire Naturelle, France Ivan Ineich --- Muséum national d'Histoire Naturelle, France Marcell Talla Kouete --- Cameroon Biodiversity Conservation Society, CameroonA new large (100 mm SVL) species of forest‐dwelling gecko of the genus Hemidactylus is described from the Furu‐Awa area in the Northwest Province of Cameroon. The species is distinguished from other equatorial West African members of the genus by... -
Folliculogenesis and ovarian histology of the oviparous gecko, Hemidactylus mabouia (Sauria: Gekkonidae)
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: The Journal of the Herpetological Association of Africa • Authors: GanasK. Moodley --- University of KwaZulu‐Natal, South Africa JohannesH. van Wyk --- University of Stellenbosch, South AfricaHistological changes during the ovarian cycle of the oviparous gekkonid lizard, Hemidactylus mabouia are described. The ovaries each contained a single germinal epithelium (bed) with numerous oogonia and primordial follicles. Similar to other squamates, the ovarian stroma was characterized by... -
A new species of Hemidactylus (Squamata: Gekkonidae) from Príncipe Island, Gulf of Guinea, West Africa with comments on the African-Atlantic clade of Hemidactylus geckos
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Herpetology • Authors: ElizabethC. Miller --- University of California, USA AnnaB. Sellas --- California Academy of Sciences, USA RobertC. Drewes --- California Academy of Sciences, USAThe remote oceanic Gulf of Guinea islands of São Tomé and Príncipe are home to a highly endemic herpetofauna, which has become the focus of modern, on-going scientific analysis only during the past decade. Until now, the endemic Hemidactylus greeffi...