The Mount Sinai gecko (Hemidactylus mindiae) is a species of lizard in the family Gekkonidae. The species is endemic to Egypt.
Habitat The natural habitats of Hemidactylus mindiae are rocky areas and caves, at elevations of , but it is also found in disturbed habitats such as rural gardens, and urban areas.
Reproduction Hemidactylus mindiae is oviparous. www.reptile-database.org.
Conservation status The Mount Sinai gecko is threatened by habitat loss due to quarrying and overgrazing of livestock.
Etymology The specific epithet, mindiae, commemorates the late Mindy Baha El Din, an environmentalist and herpetologist from Egypt. She was the wife of Sherif Baha El Din, also a herpetologist, who described this lizard as a new species.Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011).The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. . (Hemidactylus mindiae, p. 178).
References
Further reading Baha El Din, Sherif M. (2005). "An overview of Egyptian species of Hemidactylus (Gekkonidae), with the description of a new species from the high mountains of South Sinai". Zoology in the Middle East 34: 11–26. (Hemidactylus mindiae, new species). (in English, plus abstract in German). 580 pp.