Arnold's leaf-toed gecko

Arnold's leaf-toed gecko (Hemidactylus arnoldi) is a species of lizard in the family Gekkonidae. The species is endemic to Somalia.

Etymology The specific name, arnoldi, is in honor of British herpetologist Edwin Nicholas "Nick" Arnold.Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. . (Hemidactylus arnoldi, p. 11).

Geographic range H. arnoldi is found in northwestern Somalia.

Habitat The preferred habitats of H. arnoldi are rocky areas and shrubland, at an altitude of .

Description H. arnoldi is large for its genus, and it is stout. The holotype, an adult female, has a snout-to-vent length (SVL) of .Lanza (1978), Figure 10.

Reproduction H. arnoldi is oviparous.

References

Further reading Lanza B (1978). "On some new or interesting east African amphibians and reptiles". Monitore Zoologico Italiano, Supplemento 10 (14): 229–297. (Hemidactylus arnoldi, new species, p. 243–249, Figures 10–12). (in English, with an abstract in Italian). Lanza B (1990). "Amphibians and reptiles of the Somali Democratic Republic: check list and biogeography". Biogeographia 14: 407–465. (Hemidactylus arnoldi, pp. 414, 445). Rösler H (2000). "Kommentierte Liste der rezent, subrezent und fossil bekannten Geckotaxa (Reptilia: Gekkonomorpha)". Gekkota 2: 28–153. (Hemidactylus arnoldi, p. 85). (in German).