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title: "Sinai Fan-fingered Gecko"
description: "Ptyodactylus guttatus — Reptiles. The Sinai fan-fingered gecko (Ptyodactylus guttatus) is a species of gecko."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/es/animal/sinai-fan-fingered-gecko
last_updated: 2026-09-20
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# Sinai Fan-fingered Gecko

> Ptyodactylus guttatus — Reptiles. The Sinai fan-fingered gecko (Ptyodactylus guttatus) is a species of gecko.

- Scientific name: *Ptyodactylus guttatus*
- Category: `reptiles` (Reptiles)
- Habitats: `desert` (Desierto)
- iNaturalist observations: 776
- Wikidata: [Q2905267](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2905267)
- iNaturalist taxon: [33878](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/33878)

## Names

- en: Sinai Fan-fingered Gecko
- de: Sinai-Fächerfingergecko

## Countries with the most observations

IL (549), PS (78), JO (57), EG (15)

## Summary

The Sinai fan-fingered gecko (Ptyodactylus guttatus) is a species of gecko. It is found in Egypt in, Israel and the Middle East.
It is common in the Sinai desert and the Negev desert. Its fan shaped fingers have given it the name מניפנית in Hebrew coming from the word מניפה which means "fan"

Text: Wikipedia (en), CC BY-SA 4.0 — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinai_fan-fingered_gecko

## Photo

![Sinai Fan-fingered Gecko](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/sinai-fan-fingered-gecko/medium.jpg)

Photo: shachar8 · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/320357524

## Machine access

`GET https://animalchecklist.com/api/v1/animals/sinai-fan-fingered-gecko?lang=es` — see [openapi.json](https://animalchecklist.com/openapi.json).