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Reptilia    Squamata (part)    Phyllodactylidae  

Yellow Fan-Fingered Gecko
Ptyodactylus hasselquistii (Donndorff, 1798)

Current SSAR Comments:
Newly listed species. Native to northeastern Africa (Algeria, Cameroon, Egypt, Ethiopia, Eritrea, Somalia, and Sudan) and southern Middle East (Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Sinai [Egypt], and Syria). It is established in Orange County, California (Hansen and Shedd, 2025, California Amphibians and Reptiles, Princeton University Press. 520 pp).

Range maps are based on curated specimens and provided gratis by CNAH.
(Created by Travis W. Taggart; Version: 2025.01.05.22.28.56)
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First instance(s) of published English names:
No historic English names have been assigned to this taxon yet.

Taxon Links:

  
Catalog of American Amphibians and Reptiles
  
The Reptile Database
  
NatureServe
  
iNaturalist
  
GenBank
  
USGS - Nonindigenous Aquatic Species Database

Pertinent LIterature:
1798 Donndorff, Johann August. Zoologische Beyträge zur XIII. Ausgabe des Linneischen Natursystems. Dritter Band, Amphibien und Fische. [Zoological contributions to the XIII. Edition of the Linnean natural system. Third volume, amphibians and fish.] Weidmannschen, Leipzig, Germany. vi+980pp.
2025 Hansen, Robert W. and Jackson D. Shedd. California Amphibians and Reptiles. Princeton University Press, Princeton, New Jersey. 520pp.

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