Taylor's fat-tailed gecko (Hemitheconyx taylori), also known commonly as Taylor's fat-tail gecko, is a species of lizard in the family Eublepharidae. The species is native to northeastern Africa.[1][2]
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Order: | Squamata |
| Family: | Eublepharidae |
| Genus: | Hemitheconyx |
| Species: | H. taylori
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| Binomial name | |
| Hemitheconyx taylori Parker, 1930
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Etymology
editThe specific name, taylori, is in honor of British army officer Captain R. H. R. Taylor.[3]
Geographic range
editH. taylori is found in eastern Ethiopia and northern Somalia.[1]
Habitat
editThe preferred natural habitat of H. taylori is desert, at altitudes of 2,100–4,100 ft (640–1,250 m).[4] They reportedly survive the dry landscape by adopting a nocturnal and even semi-fossorial lifestyle.[5]
Reproduction
editReferences
edit- ^ a b c Spawls, S. (2021). "Hemitheconyx taylori". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2021: e.T203831A2771724. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2021-1.RLTS.T203831A2771724.en. Retrieved 30 August 2021.
- ^ a b Hemitheconyx taylori at the Reptarium.cz Reptile Database. Accessed 30 August 2021.
- ^ Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. ISBN 978-1-4214-0135-5. (Hemitheconyx taylori, p. 262).
- ^ Loveridge A (1947). "Revision of the African Lizards of the Family Gekkonidae". Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoölogy at Harvard College 98 (1): 1–469 + Plates 1–7. (Hemitheconyx taylori, pp. 25–26).
- ^ Andreas Kirschner; Hermann Seufer & Yuri Kaverkin (2005). The eyelash geckos: Care, breeding and natural history. Karlsruhe: Kirschner und Seufer. ISBN 978-3-9804207-8-5. OCLC 181523397.
Further reading
edit- Largen M, Spawls S (2010). Amphibians and Reptiles of Ethiopia and Eritrea. Frankfurt am Main: Edition Chimaira / Serpents Tale. 694 pp. ISBN 978-3899734669.
- Parker HW (1930). "Three new Reptiles from Somaliland". Annals and Magazine of Natural History, Tenth Series 6: 603–606. (Hemitheconyx taylori, new species, pp. 603–604).
- Parker HW (1942). "The Lizards of British Somaliland, With an appendix on Topography and Climate by Capt. R. H. R. Taylor, O. B. E." Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoölogy at Harvard College 91: 1–101. (Hemitheconyx taylori, p. 37).
- Rösler H (2000). "Kommentierte Liste der rezent, subrezent und fossil bekannten Geckotaxa (Reptilia: Gekkonomorpha)". Gekkota 2: 28–153. (Hemitheconyx taylori, p. 89).
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