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
Family:	Eublepharidae
Genus:	Hemitheconyx
Species:	H. taylori
Binomial name
	Hemitheconyx taylori; Parker, 1930

Last updated December 18, 2022

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]

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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.