- Cnemaspis jerdonii
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Jerdon's Day Gecko Scientific classification Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Reptilia Order: Squamata Suborder: Sauria Family: Gekkonidae Genus: Cnemaspis Species: C. jerdonii Binomial name Cnemaspis jerdonii
(Theobald, 1868)Jerdon's Day Gecko Cnemaspis jerdonii is a species of gecko found in India and Sri Lanka.
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Description
In habit similar to Cnemaspis kandianus and gracilis. Digits not dilated, but with rather large plates under the basal part, the most distal of these plates being the largest and longitudinally oval in shape. Upper surface covered with uniform small granules, smooth on the back, a little larger and keeled on the snout; a few erect spine-bke tubercles on the flanks. Rostral four-sided, nearly twice as broad as deep, with median cleft above; nostril pierced between the rostral and three nasals; 8 to 10 upper and 7 or 8 lower labials; mental large, triangular or pentagonal, small chin-shields passing gradually into the granules of the throat, which are rather large, flat and smooth. Ventral scales hexagonal, imbricate, smooth. Male with 5 to 12 femoral pores on each side; no pncanal pores. Tail cylindrical, tapering, covered with email smooth scales, in its basal half with a tew scattered larger tubercles; median series of subcaudals enlarged. Grey-brown above, clouded with darker; the small lateral spines white: sometimes a black cervical spot; whitish beneath, the throat sometimes brown-dotted.[1]
Notes
- ^ Boulenger, G. A. 1890. Fauna of British India. Reptilia and Batrachia.
References
- Boulenger, G.A. 1885 Catalogue of the Lizards in the British Museum (Nat. Hist.) I. Geckonidae, Eublepharidae, Uroplatidae, Pygopodidae, Agamidae. London: 450 pp.
- Ferguson, W. 1877 Reptile fauna of Ceylon. Letter on a collection sent to the Colombo Museum. Herbert, Ceylon
- Taylor,E.H. 1953 A review of the lizards of Ceylon. Univ. Kansas Sci. Bull., Lawrence, 35: 1525-1585
- Theobald, William 1868 Catalogue of reptiles in the museum of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. Jour. Asiatic Soc. Bengal, Calcutta, 37 (extra number 146): (2), vi, 7-88
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