Hemidactylus karenorum

Hemidactylus karenorum
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Subphylum: Vertebrata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Squamata
Suborder: Sauria
Infraorder: Gekkota
Family: Gekkonidae
Subfamily: Gekkoninae
Genus: Hemidactylus
Species: H. karenorum
Binomial name
Hemidactylus karenorum
(Theobald, 1868)
Synonyms
  • Doryura karenorum
    Theobald, 1868
  • Hemidactylus karenorum
    Boulenger, 1885

Hemidactylus karenorum, commonly known as the Burmese leaf gecko[1] or the Burmese leaf-toed gecko, is a species of gecko, which is endemic to Southeast Asia.

Etymology

The specific name, karenorum, is in honor of the Karen people, a hill tribe in Myanmar.[1]

Description

Snout longer than the distance between the eye and the ear-opening, one and one third or one and two fifths the diameter of the orbit; forehead slightly concave; ear-opening small, roundish. Head granular, the granules enlarged on the snout. Rostral four-sided, not quite twice so broad as high, with median cleft above; nostril bordered by the rostral, the first labial and three nasals. Eleven or twelve upper and seven to nine lower labials; mental large, triangular; two pair of chin-shields, median pair in contact. Body covered with minute granules and numerous small convex round tubercles; a slight lateral fold and another bordering the thighs posteriorly. Ventral scales cycloid, imbricate. Male with six pre-anal pores in an angular series. The female has six enlarged scales in the pre-anal region. Tail depressed, flat below, with sharp denticulated lateral edge, covered above with equal small scales, below with a median series of large transversely dilated plates. Limbs moderate; digits free, dilated, inner well developed; infradigital lamellae curved, five under the thumb, nine under the fourth finger, 5 or 6 under the first toe, 10 or 12 under the fourth toe. Light grey-brown above, variegated with darker brown. Lower parts whitish. Length of head and body 50 mm.; tail 56 mm.[2]

Geographic range

Myanmar (= Burma), NE India (Assam, Toungoo). Type locality: Karen-choung, near Toungoo, Myanmar (= Burma).

References

  1. 1 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. (Hemidactylus karenorum, p. 138).
  2. Rooij N de. 1915. The Reptiles of the Indo-Australian Archipelago. [Volume] I. Lacertilia, Chelonia, Emydosauria. Leiden: E.J. Brill. xiv + 384 pp. (Hemidactylus karenorum, pp. 30-31).

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