Hemidactylus bouvieri

Hemidactylus bouvieri, also known as Bouvier's leaf-toed gecko or Cape Verde leaf-toed gecko, is a species of gecko in the family Gekkonidae.[2] The species is endemic to the Cape Verde Islands and is listed as critically endangered. It has been found on the islands of São Vicente, Santo Antão, Santa Luzia, São Nicolau, Santiago and Ilhéu Raso.[3]

Hemidactylus bouvieri
Conservation status
Critically Endangered  (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Reptilia
Order:	Squamata
Family:	Gekkonidae
Genus:	Hemidactylus
Species:	H. bouvieri
Binomial name
Hemidactylus bouvieri (Bocourt, 1870)
Synonyms[1]
Emydactylus bouvieri Bocourt, 1870 Hemidactylus cessacii Bocage, 1873 Hemidactylus bouvieri — Rochebrune, 1884

H. bouvieri was originally described and named by Marie Firmin Bocourt in 1870. The specific name, bouvieri, is in honor of French zoologist Aimé Bouvier (died 1919).[2][4]

Subspecies

There are two subspecies which are considered valid.[3]

• Hemidactylus bouvieri bouvieri (Bocourt, 1870)
• Hemidactylus bouvieri razoensis Gruber & Schleich, 1982

The former subspecies Hemidactylus bouvieri boavistensis is now considered a separate species, Hemidactylus boavistensis.[3][5]

References

1. R. Vasconcelos (2012). "Hemidactylus bouvieri". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2012. Retrieved 2018-10-05.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
2. Hemidactylus bouvieri at the Reptarium.cz Reptile Database. Accessed 3 April 2017.
3. E.N. Arnold; R. Vasconcelos; D.J. Harris; J.A. Mateo; S. Carranza (2008). "Systematics, biogeography and evolution of the endemic Hemidactylus geckos (Reptilia, Squamata, Gekkonidae) of the Cape Verde Islands: based on morphology and mitochondrial and nuclear DNA sequences" (PDF). Zoologica Scripta. 37 (6): 619–636. doi:10.1111/j.1463-6409.2008.00351.x.
4. 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. (Hemidactylus bouvieri, p. 35).
5. R. Vasconcelos (2012). "Hemidactylus boavistensis". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2012. Retrieved 2018-10-05.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)

Further reading

• Bocourt MF (1870). "Description de quelques sauriens nouveaux originaires de l'Amérique méridionale [Description of Some New Lizards Originating in Central America]". Nouvelles Archives du Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle de Paris [New Archives of the Natural History Museum of Paris] 6: 11–18. (Emydactylus bouvieri, new species, pp. 17–18). (in French).
• Boulenger GA (1906). "Report on the reptiles collected by the late L. Fea in West Africa". Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Genova [Civic Museum of Natural History, Genoa], Series 3, 42: 196–216. (Hemidactylus boavistensis, new species, p. 198).
• Gruber HJ, Schleich HH (1982). "Hemidactylus bouvieri razoensis nov. ssp. von den Kapverdischen [Hemidactylus bouvieri razoensis, new subspecies, from the Cape Verde Islands]". Spixiana 5 (3): 303–310. (in German).