Smith’s bent-toed gecko

Smith’s bent-toed gecko
Scientific classification
Kingdom:Animalia
Phylum:Chordata
Class:Reptilia
Order:Squamata
Family:Gekkonidae
Genus:Hemidactylus
Species: H. malcolmsmithi
Binomial name
Hemidactylus malcolmsmithi
(Constable, 1949)
Synonyms
  • Gymnodactylus malcolmsmithi
  • Cyrtodactylus malcolmsmithi

Smith's bent-toed gecko (Hemidactylus malcolmsmithi) is a species of lizards in the family Gekkonidae. The species is endemic to India. It is sometimes placed in the genus Cyrtodactylus.

Etymology

The specific name, malcolmsmithi, is in honor of British herpetologist Malcolm Arthur Smith.[2]

Geographic range

It is found in the Indian state of Punjab.[3]

Type locality: "Beas River basin, Punjab, India".[4]

References

  1. ↑ Khan, M.S. 2010. Cyrtodactylus malcolmsmithi. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2010: e.T178497A7558883. https://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2010-4.RLTS.T178497A7558883.en. Downloaded on 19 April 2018.
  2. ↑ 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 malcolmsmithi, p. 247).
  3. ↑ " Hemidactylus malcolmsmithi ". The Reptile Database. www.reptile-database.org.
  4. ↑ Constable 1949.

Further reading

  • Constable, John D. (1949). "Reptiles from the Indian Peninsula in the Museum of Comparative Zoology". Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., Cambridge (Massachusetts) 103 (2): 59-160. (Gymnodactylus malcolmsmithi, new species, pp. 80–82).
  • Underwood, Garth (1954). "On the classification and evolution of geckos". Proc. Zool. Soc. London 124 (3): 469-492.
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