Hemidactylus fragilis
Hemidactylus fragilis is a species of gecko, a lizard in the family Gekkonidae. The species is indigenous to the Horn of Africa. Geographic range. "H. fragilis" is found in Ethiopia and Somalia. Taxonomy. "H. fragilis" is sometimes considered conspecific with the common house gecko, "H. frenatus". In fact, it had been synonymized with the species by Loveridge in 1947, but was resurrected by Mazuch et al. in 2016. Description. Small for its genus, "H. fragilis" may attain a snout-to-vent length (SVL) of . Reproduction. "H. fragilis" is oviparous.