Stenodactylus doriae

Stenodactylus doriae, commonly known as the Middle Eastern short-fingered gecko or Doria's comb-fingered gecko, is a species of lizard in the family Gekkonidae.

Stenodactylus doriae
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Squamata
Family: Gekkonidae
Genus: Stenodactylus
Species:
S. doriae
Binomial name
Stenodactylus doriae
(Blanford, 1874)
Synonyms
  • Ceramodactylus doriae
    Blanford, 1874
  • Stenodactylus doriae
    — J. Anderson, 1896[2]

Etymology

The specific name, doriae, is in honor of Italian naturalist Giacomo Doria.[3]

Geographic range

S. doriae occurs in Saudi Arabia, Iran, Iraq, Israel, the United Arab Emirates, Oman, Jordan, and Kuwait.[2]

Description

This gecko reaches about 8.3 centimetres (3.3 in) in snout-to-vent length (SVL).[2] Its eyes are bordered by large scales to protect them from the sand during burrowing.[4]

References
  1. Soorae, P., Amr, Z.S.S., Al Johany, A.M.H., Els, J., Sharifi, M., Papenfuss, T., Sadek, R., Disi, A.M., Hraoui-Bloquet, S., Werner, Y.L. & Shafiei Bafti, S. 2012. Stenodactylus doriae (errata version published in 2017). The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2012: e.T164683A115304527. https://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2012.RLTS.T164683A1067541.en. Downloaded on 12 January 2019.
  2. Stenodactylus doriae. The Reptile Database.
  3. Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. ISBN 978-1-4214-0135-5. (Stenodactylus doriae, p. 75).
  4. ".arkive.org". Archived from the original on 2013-03-02. Retrieved 2013-02-17.

Further reading
  • Blanford WT (1874). "Descriptions of new Lizards from Persia and Baluchistán". Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., Fourth Series 13: 453–455. (Ceramodactylus doriae, new species, pp. 454–455). (in English and Latin).
  • Boulenger GA (1885). Catalogue of the Lizards in the British Museum (Natural History). Second Edition. Volume I. Geckonidæ ... London: Trustees of the British Museum (Natural History). (Taylor and Francis, printers). xii + 436 pp. + Plates I-XXXII. (Ceramodactylus doriæ, pp. 13–14 + Plate II, figure 4).


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