Taylor's fat-tailed gecko

Taylor's fat-tailed gecko
Conservation status
	; Least Concern (IUCN 3.1)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Reptilia
Order:	Squamata
Suborder:	Gekkota
Family:	Eublepharidae
Genus:	Hemitheconyx
Species:	H. taylori
Binomial name
	Hemitheconyx taylori; Parker, 1930

Last updated October 06, 2025

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]

Etymology

The specific name, taylori, is in honor of British army officer Captain R. H. R. Taylor.^[3]

Geographic range

H. taylori is found in eastern Ethiopia and northern Somalia.^[1]

Habitat

The 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

H. taylori is oviparous.^[2]

References

1 2 3 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.
1 2 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 College98 (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.

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 Series6: 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 College91: 1–101. (Hemitheconyx taylori, p. 37).
Rösler H (2000). "Kommentierte Liste der rezent, subrezent und fossil bekannten Geckotaxa (Reptilia: Gekkonomorpha)". Gekkota2: 28–153. (Hemitheconyx taylori, p. 89).

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[IUCN-1] 1 2 3 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.

[RDB-2] 1 2 Hemitheconyx taylori at the Reptarium.cz Reptile Database. Accessed 30 August 2021.

[3] 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).

[4] Loveridge A (1947). "Revision of the African Lizards of the Family Gekkonidae". Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoölogy at Harvard College98 (1): 1–469 + Plates 1–7. (Hemitheconyx taylori, pp. 25–26).

[5] 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.

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