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Anderson's Short-Fingered Gecko

Stenodactylus petrii

Pronunciation:  steen-O-dak-till-us  P-tree

Discovered by: ANDERSON, 1896

Length: ?

Distribution: Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Egypt, S Israel,

Sudan, Senegal, Mauretania, Mali, Libya, Eritrea, Niger

Terra typica: Tel el Amarna, Assui Province, Egypt.

(Distribution Info from EMBL, See "Bibliography & Links" link above)

Notes: Very commonly imported, but very rarely bred.  It is also not an easy species to breed in captivity, with very few recorded successes.