Stenodactylus petrii

Stenodactylus petrii is small a gecko night and terrestrial which meets in the north of the Africa and with the the Middle East. It is of modest size (between 9 and 12 cm), with a rather long tail compared to the body and of large yeux.
He lives in arid mediums, where he hides in holes and galleries which he digs, leaving during the night and sometimes in beginning or end-of-day.

Geographical distribution

One meets this Espèce in the north of Africa like in certain countries of the Middle-East, as in Israel.

Subspecies

No known subspecies to date.

Climatic parameters

This reptile lives in arid mediums. The temperatures can exceed the 30°C the day, although these Lézard S remains hidden the day and do not appreciate temperatures beyond 30°C. The night the temperature can fall in lower part of 20°C.
The Hygrométrie remains rather weak, and it seems that these animals occur to have a wetter burrow (contrary to many others geckos alive in arid mediums).

Breeding in captivity

This species almost does not meet in breeding.

For this species, a Terrarium of type the terrestrial and desert would be appropriate, by taking care to have elements of decorations fixed well to avoid collapses (because it is a digger animal).

Food

They are the insectivorous ones, which drives out the Insecte S of adapted size the night.

Behavior

These geckos is territorial, and in particular the males can fight when they are in presence.

They are also the digger ones, which digs the ground to hide the day, and which is recovered of sand the night to watch for their preys.

Maturity

Sexage

Reproduction

Layings

Incubation

The small ones

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Références :

Werner, F. 1899 Allerlei aus dem Kriechtierleben in Käfig It. Zoologische Garten, Frankfurt A.M., 40:12 - 24.
Schleich, H.H., Kästle, W., Kabisch, K. 1996 Amphibians and Reptiles off North Africa. Koeltz, Koenigstein, 627 pp.
Rösler, Herbert 1995 Geckos der Welt - Gattungen Ale. Urania, Leipzig, 256 pp.
Marx, Hymen 1968 Checklist off the reptiles and amphibians off Egypt. Spec. Publ. U.S. VOR. Med. Abstr. Links 3:1 - 91
Loveridge, A. 1947 Revision off the African lizards off the family Gekkondiae. Bulletin off the Driven. Comp. Zool, Harvard 98:1 - 469
Lamp, E. 1911 Erster Nachtrag zum Katalog der Reptilien - und Amphibian - Sammlung of Naturhistorischen Natural history musea der Stadt Wiesbaden. Jahrb. nassau Worm. Naturk. (Wiesbaden) 64,137-236.
Kratochvil, L.; Frynta, D. & Moravec, J. 2001 have third Stenodactylus in Africa: Return off the forgotten Stenodactylus stenurus. Israel J. Zool. 47 (2): 99-109
Grie§hammer, K. 2004 Engfingergeckos, Stenodactylus sthenodactylus (LICHTENSTEIN 1823) im Terrarium. Draco 5 (18): 45-51
Gramentz, D. 2004 Der Schreckruf von Stenodactylus petrii ANDERSON 1896. to S. stenurus in Sauria 27 (1): 26 Sauria 26 (4): 13-16
Gramentz, D. 2001 Zur Ökologie und Ethology von Stenodactylus petrii ANDERSON 1896 in West-Tunesien. Sauria 23 (4): 3-9
Barbour, Thomas 1914 Notes one summons reptiles from the Sinai and Syria. Proceedings off the New England Zoological Club 5:73 - 92
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Anderson, John 1896 has off Contribution to the Herpetology Arabia, with has preliminary list off the reptiles and batrachians off Egypt. London. R.H. Porter, 124 pp.
Atlas of the terrariophile Vol.3: the lizards . Animalia Editions, 2003. ISBN 2-9517895-2-1

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