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:Hemidactylus eniangii

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| status = LC | status_system = IUCN3.1

| status_ref = {{cite iucn |author=LeBreton, M. |author2=Bauer, A.M. |year=2021 |title=Hemidactylus eniangii |volume=2021 |page=e.T124309792A124309802 |doi=10.2305/IUCN.UK.2021-1.RLTS.T124309792A124309802.en |access-date=30 September 2022}}

| genus = Hemidactylus

| species = eniangii

| authority = Wagner, Leaché & Fujita, 2014

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Hemidactylus eniangii is a species of forest gecko found in Nigeria (i.e., east of the Dahomey Gap) and northern Cameroon. It inhabits lowland tropical moist forest at elevations of {{convert|10|–|960|m|abbr=on}} above sea level and can be locally very common.

Hemidactylus eniangii can grow to {{convert|60|mm|in|1|abbr=on}} in snout–vent length and about {{convert|140|mm|in|1|abbr=on}} in total length.

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{{cite journal |last1=Wagner |first1=Philipp |last2=Leaché |first2=Adam D. |last3=Fujita |first3=Matthew K. |name-list-style=amp |title=Description of four new West African forest geckos of the Hemidactylus fasciatus Gray, 1842 complex, revealed by coalescent species delimitation |journal=Bonn Zoological Bulletin |date=June 2014 |volume=63 |issue=1 |pages=1–14 |url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/part/214188 }}

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Further reading

  • {{cite journal |last1=Bauer |first1=Aaron M. |last2=Parham |first2=James F. |last3=Brown |first3=Rafe M. |last4=Stuart |first4=Bryan L. |last5=Grismer |first5=Lee |last6=Papenfuss |first6=Theodore J. |last7=Böhme |first7=Wolfgang |last8=Savage |first8=Jay M. |last9=Carranza |first9=Salvador |last10=Grismer |first10=Jesse L. |last11=Wagner |first11=Philipp |last12=Schmitz |first12=Andreas |last13=Ananjeva |first13=Natalia B. |last14=Inger |first14=Robert F. |name-list-style=amp |title=Availability of new Bayesian-delimited gecko names and the importance of character-based species descriptions |journal=Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences |date=2011 |volume=278 |issue=1705 |pages=490–492 |doi=10.1098/rspb.2010.1330|pmid=20961901 |pmc=3025678 }}

External links

  • {{EOL|21632076|Hemidactylus eniangii}}

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Category:Hemidactylus

Category:Geckos of Africa

Category:Reptiles of Cameroon

Category:Reptiles of Nigeria

Category:Reptiles described in 2014

Category:Taxa named by Philipp Wagner

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