Boie's day gecko

Boie's day gecko
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Reptilia
Order:	Squamata
Family:	Gekkonidae
Genus:	Cnemaspis
Species:	C. boiei
Binomial name
	Cnemaspis boiei; (Gray, 1842)
Synonyms[1]
	Goniodactylus Boeï ; Gray, 1842; Gonatodes boiei ; — Boulenger, 1885; Cnemaspis boiei ; — M.A. Smith, 1935;

Boie's day gecko (Cnemaspis boiei) is a species of gecko, a lizard in the family Gekkonidae. The species is endemic to India.

Etymology

C. boiei is named after Friedrich Boie (1789–1870) or his brother Heinrich Boie (1794–1827), German naturalists.^[2]

C. boiei is oviparous.^[1]

1 2 "Cnemaspis boiei ". The Reptile Database. www.reptile-database.org.
↑ Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. ISBN 978-1-4214-0135-5. (Cnemaspis boiei, p. 31).

Boulenger GA (1885). Catalogue of the Lizards in the British Museum (Natural History). Second Edition. Volume I. Geckonidæ, Eublepharidæ, Uroplatidæ, Pygopodidæ, Agamidæ. London: Trustees of the British Museum (Natural History). (Taylor and Francis, printers). xii + 436 pp. ("Gonatodes boiei [sic]", new combination, p. 72).
Gray JE (1842). "Description of some new species of Reptiles, chiefly from the British Museum collection". The Zoological Miscellany 2: 57–59. ("Goniodactylus Boeï [sic]", new species, p. 58).
Smith MA (1935). The Fauna of British India, Including Ceylon and Burma. Reptilia and Amphibia. Vol. II.—Sauria. London: Secretary of State for India in Council. (Taylor and Francis, printers). xiii + 440 pp. + Plate I + 2 maps. ("Cnemaspis boiei [sic]", new combination, p. 75).

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