Hemidactylus bavazzanoi, also known commonly as Bavazzano's gecko, the Somali banded gecko, and the Somali leaf-toed gecko, is a species of lizard in the family Gekkonidae. The species is native to eastern Africa.
Etymology The specific name, bavazzanoi, is in honor of Italian botanist Renato Bavazzano.Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. . (Hemidactylus bavazzanoi, p. 20).
Geographic range H. bavazzanoi is found in southern Ethiopia, northeastern Kenya, and southern Somalia.
Habitat The preferred natural habitat of H. bavazzanoi is shrubland.
Description Medium-sized for its genus, H. bavazzanoi may attain a snout-to-vent length (SVL) of . Dorsally, it is pink with four black crossbands, a crescentic one on the neck, two on the body, and one on the base of the tail.
Reproduction H. bavazzanoi is oviparous.
References
Further reading Lanza B (1978). "On some new or interesting east African reptiles and amphibians". Monitore Zoologico Italiano, Supplemento 10 (14): 229–297. (Hemidactylus bavazzanoi, new species, pp. 249–255, Figures 13–16). (in English, with an abstract in Italian). Largen MJ, Spawls S (2010). Amphibians and Reptiles of Ethiopea and Eritrea. Frankfurt am Main: Edition Chimaira / Serpents Tale. 694 pp. . (Hemidactylus bavazzanoi, p. 291). Rösler H (2000). "Kommentierte Liste der rezent, subrezent und fossil bekannten Geckotaxa (Reptilia: Gekkonomorpha)". Gekkota 2: 28–153. (Hemidactylus bavazzanoi, p. 85). (in German). Spawls S, Howell K, Hinkel H, Menegon M (2018). Field Guide to East African Reptiles, Second Edition. London: Bloomsbury Natural History. 624 pp. . (Hemidactylus bavazzanoi, p. 87).