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Yellow Fan-fingered Gecko
Ptyodactylus hasselquistii
Ptyodactylus hasselquistii, commonly known as the fan-footed gecko, Hasselquist's fan-footed gecko, and the yellow fan-fingered gecko, is a species of gecko, a lizard in the family Phyllodactylidae. The species is native to northern Africa and western Asia.
From the article Ptyodactylus hasselquistii on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA), quoted section by section
Description
Ptyodactylus hasselquistii grows to a snout-to-vent length (SVL) of 96 mm (3.8 in).
Range & habitat
Ptyodactylus hasselquistii is found in Algeria, Cameroon, Egypt, Eritrea, eastern Ethiopia, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia (including the Farasan Islands), northern Somalia, Sudan, and Syria. The type locality is Cairo, Egypt.
Wikipedia: “Geographic range”
In human culture
The specific name, hasselquistii, is in honor of Swedish naturalist Fredrik Hasselquist.
Wikipedia: “Etymology”
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
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In the stacks
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 33879.