Hemidactylus ruspoli 1896
Adult female of Hemidactylus ruspoli. Kenia.
© M. Barts.
Adult female of Hemidactylus ruspoli. Kenia.
© M. Barts.
Close up view of Hemidactylus ruspoli. Kenia.
© M. Barts.
Originalbeschreibung / Original description
BOULENGER, G.A. (1896): A List of the Reptiles and Batrachians Collected by the Late Prince Eugenie Ruspoli in Somaliland and Gallaland in 1893. — Ann. Mus. Civ. Stor. Nat. Genova (Ser. 2), 17: 6-14 – Terra typica: between Lugh and Bardera, Magala Umberto I, and Dolo.
Head oviform ; snout a little longer than the distance between the eye and the ear-opening, once and a half the diameter of the orbit; forehead slightly concave ; ear-opening vertically oval, nearly half the diameter of the eye. Body stout; limbs short. Digits short, moderately dilated, free, inner well developed ; 4 or 5 lamellae under the inner digits, 6 to 8 under the median. Head covered with large convex tubercles, largest and obtusely keeled on the occiput; rostral tetragonal, little broader than deep, cleft above; nostril pierced between the rostral and three or four small scales; 8 or 9 upper and 7 or 8 lower labials; symphysial large, triangular, twice as long as the adjacent labials ; four chin-shields, inner largest and in contact behind the symphysial. Upper parts with minute granules intermixed with very large, trihedral, strongly keeled tubercles forming 14 or 1C more or less regular longitudinal series; the largest tubercles a little broader than long; ventral scales small, smooth, roundish, imbricate; a series of small round tubercles borders the belly on each side. Males with a long series of praeanal and femoral pores, not interrupted in the middle, 14 to 17 on each side. Tail swollen, depressed, above with transverse rows of large conical tubercles beneath with small, imbricate scales: the reproduced tail flat and leaf-like, without tubercles. Grey-brown above, spotted or marbled with black, or with wavy black cross-bars; some of the dorsal tubercles white; a dark streak on each side of the head, passing through the eye; intact tail with black and white annuli.
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Total length |
88 millim. |
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Head |
16 |
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Width of head |
11 |
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Body |
34 |
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Fore limb |
16 |
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Hind limb |
20 |
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Tail |
38 |
12 specimens, from between Lugh and Bardera, Magala Umberto I, and Dolo.