Hemidactylus foudaii, also known commonly as the Elba gecko, is a species of lizard in the family Gekkonidae. The species is native to North Africa.
Etymology The specific name, foudaii, is in honor of Egyptian conservationist Moustafa Mokhtar Fouda.Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. . (Hemidactylus foudaii, p. 93).
Geographic range H. foudaii is found in Egypt and possibly Sudan.
Habitat The natural habitats of H. foudaii are dry savanna, subtropical or tropical dry shrubland, and rocky areas, at altitudes up to .
Reproduction H. foudaii is oviparous. www.reptile-database.org.
Conservation status H. foudaii is threatened by habitat loss.
References
Further reading Baha El Din SM (2003). "A new species of Hemidactylus (Squamata: Gekkonidae) from Egypt". African Journal of Herpetology 52 (1): 39–47. (Hemidactylus foudaii, new species). Carranza S, Arnold EN (2006). "Systematics, biogeography, and evolution of Hemidactylus geckos (Reptilia: Gekkonidae) elucidated using mitochondrial DNA sequences". Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 38 (2): 531–545. Rösler H (2015). "Bemerkungen über einege Geckos der Zoologischen Staatssammlung München ". Gekkota, Supplement (2): 3–54. (in German). Sindaco R, Jeremčenko VK (2008). The Reptiles of the Western Palearctic. 1. Annotated Checklist and Distributional Atlas of the Turtles, Crocodiles, Amphisbaenians and Lizards of Europe, North Africa, Middle East and Central Asia. (Monographs of the Societas Herpetologica Italica). Latina, Italy: Edizioni Belvedere. 580 pp. .