- Cyrtopodion lawderanus
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Lawder's bent-toed Gecko Scientific classification Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Reptilia Order: Squamata Suborder: Sauria Family: Gekkonidae Genus: Cyrtopodion Species: C. lawderanus Binomial name Cyrtopodion lawderanus
(Stoliczka, 1871)Lawder's bent-toed Gecko Cyrtopodion lawderanus is a species of gecko found in NW India (W Himalaya, Kumaon). Type locality: Kumaon (Almora; fide Smith 1935).
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Description
Body rather slender and elongate, depressed, covered above with numerous granules intermixed with small roundish tubercles. Upper side of head equally granular, the granular scales being somewhat larger on the snout. Rostral large, broad; nostril pierced between the rostral, the first labial, and two nasals; 9 upper and 8 lower labials; mental triangular, partially wedged in between two elongate chin-shields, forming a suture below it; each of the chin-shields is followed along the labials by three other somewhat rounded shields. Ear-opening small, rounded. Ventral scales small. Two pairs of preanal pores in the male, close together, and forming an angle. General colour above greyish brown, very densely marbled and spotted with dark brown, with some indistinct undulating, whitish cross bands on the body, margined on the anterior edges with blackish brown; a somewhat indistinct dark band from the nostril through the eye to the ear ; front and hind edges of the eye white 5 labials spotted and speckled with brown; below whitish. Length of body nearly 2 inches.[1]
Notes
- ^ Boulenger, G. A. 1890. Fauna of British India. Reptilia and Batrachia.
References
- Annandale, N. 1913 Some new and interesting batrachia and lizards from India, Ceylon and Borneo. Records of the Indian Museum, 9:304-307.
- Stoliczka,F. 1871 Notes on new or little-known Indian lizards. Proc. asiat. Soc. Bengal (Calcutta) 1871: 192-195
External links
Cyrtopodion lawderanus at the Reptarium.cz Reptile Database
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