Hemiphyllodactylus harterti

Hemiphyllodactylus harterti
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Reptilia
Order:	Squamata
Family:	Gekkonidae
Genus:	Hemiphyllodactylus
Species:	H. harterti
Binomial name
	Hemiphyllodactylus harterti; (F. Werner, 1900)
Synonyms
	Lepidodactylus harterti ; F. Werner, 1900; Hemiphyllodactylus harterti ; — et al., 1999;

Hemiphyllodactylus harterti, also known commonly as the Bintang slender gecko or Hartert's slender gecko, is a species of gecko, a lizard in the family Gekkonidae. The species is endemic to Peninsular Malaysia.^[1]

Etymology[]

The specific name, harterti, is in honor of German ornithologist Ernst Johann Otto Hartert.^[2]

Unlike other species of Hemiphyllodactylus which are unisexual (females only), H. harterti is bisexual (males and females).^[1]

^ ^a ^b ^c Hemiphyllodactylus harterti at the Reptarium.cz Reptile Database
^ 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. (Hemiphyllodactylus hartert, p. 117).

Werner F (1900). "Beschreibung einiger noch unbekannter neotropischer und indischer Reptilien ". Zoologischer Anzeiger 23: 196–198. (Lepidodactylus harterti, new species, p. 196). (in German).
Zug GR (2010). "Speciation and Dispersal in a Low Diversity Taxon: The Slender Geckos Hemiphyllodactylus (Reptilia, Gekkonidae)". Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology (631): xi + 70 pp. (Hemiphyllodactylus harterti, pp. 43–44).

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