Pristurus samhaensis Rösler & Wranik, 1999

Razzetti, Edoardo, Sindaco, Roberto, Grieco, Cristina, Pella, Francesca, Ziliani, Ugo, Pupin, Fabio, Riservato, Elisa, Pellitteri-Rosa, Daniele, Butikofer, Luca, Suleiman, Ahmed Saeed & Al-Aseily, Badar Awadh, 2011, Annotated checklist and distribution of the Socotran Archipelago Herpetofauna (Reptilia), Zootaxa 2826, pp. 1-44 : 12-13

Pristurus samhaensis Rösler & Wranik, 1999

Pristurus samhaensis Rösler & Wranik, 1999: 259 —Locus typicus: “Samhah, 240 m NN (Locus typicus 12°10.00' N, 53°01.50' O)”.

Pristurus samhaensis . — Rösler & Wranik, 2000b: 86.

Pristurus samhaensis . — Arnold, 2009: 3, 7.

Pristurus samhaensis is a very common Semaphore gecko, which replaces P. sokotranus in the small islands of Samha and Darsa. It was dubitatively reported from Socotra too, near Shu’ab and from the Noged at 12°39’N – 54°01’E by Rösler & Wranik (2004: 522).

Habitat. On rocks and on the ground in stony places. Rösler & Wranik (2006b) reported that this species shows ecological and behavioural traits similar to P. sokotranus : “Im Vorkommen und Verhalten zeigt sich eine weitgehende Übereinstimmung mit P. sokotranus ”.

Original data. Fig. 20. Samha and Darsa Islands.

Bibliographic data. Rösler & Wranik (1999, 2004, 2006b), Rösler (2000).

General distribution. Probably a Samha and Darsa endemic; its occurrence in Socotra needs to be confirmed by genetic studies. The coordinates of the doubtful locality of the Noged indicated by Rösler & Wranik (2004) are wrong, because the point falls on the northern coast of Socotra.