Bunopus blanfordii

Bunopus blanfordii, also known commonly as Blanford's ground gecko and Blanford's rock gecko, is a species of lizard in the family Gekkonidae. The species is native to Western Asia.

Bunopus blanfordii
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Squamata
Family: Gekkonidae
Genus: Bunopus
Species:
B. blanfordii
Binomial name
Bunopus blanfordii
Strauch, 1887
Synonyms[1]
  • Bunopus blanfordii
    Strauch, 1887
  • Alsophylax blanfordii
    — Parker, 1931
  • Bunopus blanfordii
    — Y. Werner, 1991

Etymology

The specific name, blanfordii, is in honor of English naturalist William Thomas Blanford.[2]

Geographic range

B. blanfordii is found in Israel and Jordan.[1]

Reproduction

B. blanfordii is oviparous.[1]

References
  1. Species Bunopus blanfordii at The Reptile Database www.reptile-database.org.
  2. Beolens B, Watkins M, Grayson M (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. ISBN 978-1-4214-0135-5. (Bunopus blanfordii, p. 27).

Further reading
  • Goldberg SR, Maza E (2017). "Bunopus blanfordii (Blanford's Rock Gecko). Reproduction". Herpetological Review 48 (4): 845.
  • Rösler H (2000). "Kommentierte Liste der rezent, subrezent und fossil bekannten Geckotaxa (Reptilia: Gekkonomorpha)". Gekkota 2: 28–153. (Bunopus blanfordii, p. 61). (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. ISBN 978-88-89504-14-7.
  • Strauch A (1887). "Bemerkungen über die Geckoniden-Sammlung im zoologischen Museum der kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu St. Petersburg ". Mémoires de l'Académie Impériale des Sciences de St.-Pétersbourg, Septième Série 35 (2): 1–72. (Bunopus blanfordii, new species, pp. 61–64, Figures 13–14). (in German).



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