Hemidactylus taylori

Hemidactylus taylori, also known commonly as Taylor's house gecko and Taylor's Somali half-toed gecko, is a species of lizard in the family Gekkonidae. The species is endemic to Somalia.[1]

Hemidactylus taylori
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Reptilia
Order:	Squamata
Family:	Gekkonidae
Genus:	Hemidactylus
Species:	H. taylori
Binomial name
Hemidactylus taylori Parker, 1932

Etymology

The specific name, taylori, is in honor of British army officer Captain R. H. R. Taylor.[2]

Behavior

H. taylori is terrestrial and nocturnal.[3]

Reproduction

H. taylori is oviparous.[1]

References

1. Hemidactylus taylori at the Reptarium.cz Reptile Database
2. 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 taylori, p. 262).
3. Parker (1942).

Further reading

• Lanza B (1978). "On some new or interesting east African amphibians and reptiles". Monitore Zoologico Italiano, Supplemento 10 (14): 229–297. (Hemidactylus taylori, p. 268). (in English, with an abstract in Italian).
• 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. (Hemidactylus taylori, pp. 153–154).
• Parker HW (1932). "Two Collections of Amphibians and Reptiles from British Somaliland". Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1932: 335–367. (Hemidactylus taylori, new species, p. 342).
• Parker HW (1942). "The Lizards of British Somaliland, With an appendix on Topography and Climate by Capt. R. H. R. Taylor, O. B. E." Bull. Mus. Comp. Zoöl. Harvard Coll. 91: 1–101. (Hemidactylus taylori, p. 23).
• Rösler H (2000). "Kommentierte Liste der rezent, subrezent und fossil bekannten Geckotaxa (Reptilia: Gekkonomorpha)". Gekkota 2: 28–153. (Hemidactylus taylori, p. 88). (in German).