Sabah bow-fingered gecko

The Sabah bow-fingered gecko (Cyrtodactylus ingeri ), also known commonly as Inger's bow-fingered gecko,[2] is a species of gecko, a lizard in the family Gekkonidae. The species is endemic to Sabah in Malaysia.[1]

Sabah bow-fingered gecko
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Squamata
Family: Gekkonidae
Genus: Cyrtodactylus
Species:
C. ingeri
Binomial name
Cyrtodactylus ingeri
Hikida, 1990
Synonyms[1]
  • Cyrtodactylus ingeri
    Hikida, 1990
  • Gonydactylus ingeri
    — Tan, 1993
  • Cyrtodactylus (Cyrtodactylus) ingeri
    — Rösler, 2000
  • Cyrtodactylus ingeri
    — Grismer, 2005

Etymology

The specific name, ingeri, is in honor of American herpetologist Robert F. Inger.[2]

Reproduction

C. ingeri is oviparous.[1]

References
  1. Cyrtodactylus ingeri at the Reptarium.cz Reptile Database. Accessed 22 March 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 ingeri, p. 129).

Further reading
  • Hikida, Tsutomu (1990). "Bornean gekkonid lizards of the genus Cyrtodactylus (Lacertilia: Gekkonidae) with descriptions of three new species". Japanese Journal of Herpetology 13 (3): 91-107. (Cyrtodactylus ingeri, new species).
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