Stejneger's leaf-toed gecko

Stejneger's leaf-toed gecko (Hemidactylus stejnegeri) is a species of lizard in the family Gekkonidae. The species is native to Southeast Asia.

Etymology The specific name, stejnegeri, is in honour of Norwegian-American herpetologist Leonhard Stejneger.Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. . (Hemidactylus stejnegeri, p. 253).

Geographic range H. stejnegeri is found in the Philippines, Taiwan, and Vietnam.

Habitat The preferred habitat of H. stejnegeri is forest, at altitudes from sea level to .

Reproduction H. stejnegeri is an oviparous, triploid, parthenogenetic species.

References

Further reading Ota H, Hikida T (1989). "A New Triploid Hemidactylus (Gekkonidae: Sauria) from Taiwan, with Comments on Morphological and Karyological Variation in the H. garnotii-vietnamensis Complex". Journal of Herpetology 23 (1): 50–60. (Hemidactylus stejnegeri, new species). Nguyen SV, Ho CT, Nguyen TQ (2009). Herpetofauna of Vietnam. Frankfurt am Main: Chimaira / Serpents Tale. 768 pp. . Rösler H (2000). "Kommentierte Liste der rezent, subrezent und fossil bekannten Geckotaxa (Reptilia: Gekkonomorpha)". Gekkota 2: 28–153. (Hemidactylus stejnegeri, p. 87). (in German).