Nigeria Leaf-toed Gecko articles - Encyclopedia of Life

Distribution

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Continent: Africa
Distribution: Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, Benin, Nigeria, Cameroon
Type locality: Sapele Station, Niger Delta.

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The Nigeria leaf-toed gecko (Hemidactylus ansorgii) is a species of lizard in the family Gekkonidae. The species is native to western Africa.

The specific name, ansorgii, is in honor of William John Ansorge, a physician who collected natural history specimens in Africa.^[1]

H. ansorgii is oviparous.^[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 ansorgii, p. 10).
^ ^a ^b Hemidactylus ansorgii at the Reptarium.cz Reptile Database

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The Nigeria leaf-toed gecko (Hemidactylus ansorgii) is a species of lizard in the family Gekkonidae. The species is native to western Africa.