Ponmudi day gecko

Ponmudi day gecko
Scientific classification
Kingdom:Animalia
Phylum:Chordata
Class:Reptilia
Order:Squamata
Family:Gekkonidae
Genus:Cnemaspis
Species: C. nairi
Binomial name
Cnemaspis nairi
Inger, Marx & Koshy, 1984

The Ponmudi day gecko (Cnemaspis nairi) is a species of geckos found in India (Kerala). It was first described from Ponmudi.[2]

Etymology

The specific name, nairi, is in honor of Indian naturalist S. Madhavan Nair.[3]

References

  1. ↑ Srinivasulu, B. & Srinivasulu, C. 2013. Cnemaspis nairi. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2013: e.T172619A1353329. https://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2013-1.RLTS.T172619A1353329.en. Downloaded on 04 January 2018.
  2. ↑ Cnemaspis nairi at the Reptarium.cz Reptile Database. Accessed 3 July 2015.
  3. ↑ Beolens B, Watkins M, Grayson M (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. ISBN 978-1-4214-0135-5. (Cnemaspis nairi, p. 187).

Further reading

  • Inger RF, Marx H, Koshy M (1984). "An undescribed species of gekkonid lizard (Cnemaspis) from India with comments on the status of C. tropidogaster ". Herpetologica 40 (2): 149-154. (Cnemaspis nairi, new species).
  • Rösler H (2000). "Kommentierte Liste der rezent, subrezent und fossil bekannten Geckotaxa (Reptilia: Gekkonomorpha)". Gekkota 2: 28-153.


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