''Asaccus gallagheri'', also known
commonly as Gallagher's gecko or Gallagher's leaf-toed gecko, is a
species
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of
lizard
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in the
family
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Phyllodactylidae
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. The species is
endemic
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to the
Arabian Peninsula
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Geographically, the ...
and occurs in
Oman
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and the
United Arab Emirates
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.
Etymology
The
specific name Specific name may refer to:
* in Database management systems, a system-assigned name that is unique within a particular database
In taxonomy, either of these two meanings, each with its own set of rules:
* Specific name (botany), the two-part (bino ...
, ''gallagheri'', is in honor of zoologist
Michael Desmond Gallagher (born 1921).
[ Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011). ''The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles''. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. . (''Asaccus gallagheri'', p. 97).]
Habitat
The preferred natural
habitat
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of ''A. gallagheri'' is rocky areas, at altitudes from sea level to .
Reproduction
''A. gallagheri'' is
oviparous
Oviparous animals are animals that reproduce by depositing fertilized zygotes outside the body (i.e., by laying or spawning) in metabolically independent incubation organs known as eggs, which nurture the embryo into moving offsprings kno ...
.
[ ]Clutch
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size is two eggs.
References
Further reading
* Arnold EN (1972). "Lizards with Northern Affinities from the Mountains of Oman". ''Zoologische Mededelingen'' 47 (8): 111–128. (''Phyllodactylus gallagheri'', new species, pp. 113–116).
* Papenfuss TJ, Jackman TR, Bauer AM, Stuart BL, Robinson MD, Parham JF (2010). "Phylogenetic Relationships Among Species of Southwest Asian Leaf-toed Geckos (''Asaccus'')". ''Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences, Fourth Series'' 61 (13): 587–596.
* Pierson T (2014). "Two new distribution records of ''Asaccus gallagheri'' (Arnold, 1977 ic (Squamata: Gekkonidae) in the Fujairah Emirate, UAE and the Musandam Governorate, Oman". ''Check List'' 10 (1): 168–169.
* Simó-Riudalbas M, Tarroso P, Papenfuss T, Al Sariri T, Carranza S (2018). "Systematics, biogeography and evolution of ''Asaccus gallagheri'' (Squamata, Phyllodactylidae) with the description of a new endemic species from Oman". ''Systematics and Biodiversity'' 16 (4): 323–339.
* 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. .
Asaccus
Reptiles of the Arabian Peninsula
Endemic fauna of Oman
Endemic fauna of the United Arab Emirates
Reptiles described in 1972
Taxa named by Edwin Nicholas Arnold
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