Oldham's bow-fingered gecko

Oldham's bow-fingered gecko
Scientific classification
Kingdom:Animalia
Phylum:Chordata
Class:Reptilia
Order:Squamata
Family:Gekkonidae
Genus:Cyrtodactylus
Species: C. oldhami
Binomial name
Cyrtodactylus oldhami
(Theobald, 1876)
Synonyms[1]
  • Gymnodactylus oldhami
    Theobald, 1876
  • Gymnodactylus oldhami
    — Boulenger, 1885
  • Cyrtodactylus oldhami
    — Taylor, 1963
  • Cyrtodactylus oldhami
    — Manthey & W. Grossmann, 1997
  • Cyrtodactylus (Cyrtodactylus) oldhami
    — Rösler, 2000

Oldham's bow-fingered gecko (Cyrtodatylus oldhami)[2][3] is a species of gecko native to Myanmar and Thailand.[4][1]

Etymology

Both the specific name, oldhami, and the common name, Oldham's bow-fingered gecko, are in honor of English plant collector Richard Oldham (1837–1864).[5]

References

  1. 1 2 "Cyrtodactylus oldhami ". The Reptile Database. Retrieved 17 January 2014.
  2. ↑ "Cyrtodactylus oldhami ". uBIO. Retrieved 17 January 2014.
  3. ↑ "Cyrtodactylus oldhami ". Animal Diversity. Retrieved 17 January 2014.
  4. ↑ "Cyrtodactylus oldhami ". Thai National Parks. Retrieved 17 January 2014.
  5. ↑ 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. (Cyrtodactylus oldhami, p. 194).

Further reading

  • Rösler, Herbert; Glaw, Frank (2008). "A new species of Cyrtodactylus Gray, 1827 (Squamata: Gekkonidae) from Malaysia including a literature survey of mensural and meristic data in the genus". Zootaxa 1729: 8-22.
  • Smith, Malcolm A. (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. (Gymnodactylus oldhami, p. 50 + Plate I, figure C).
  • Taylor, Edward H. (1963). "The Lizards of Thailand". Univ. Kansas Sci. Bull. 44 (14): 687-1077. (Cyrtodactylus oldhami, new combination, pp. 725–728, Figure 6).
  • Theobald, William (1876). Descriptive Catalogue of the Reptiles of British India. Calcutta: Thacker, Spink and Co. x + 238 + xxxviii + xii + four unnumbered plates + Plates I-II. (Gymnodactylus oldhami, new species, pp. 81–82).
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