Boulenger's bow-fingered gecko

Boulenger's bow-fingered gecko
Conservation status
	; Least Concern (IUCN 3.1)
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Reptilia
Order:	Squamata
Family:	Gekkonidae
Genus:	Cyrtodactylus
Species:	C. loriae
Binomial name
	Cyrtodactylus loriae; (Boulenger, 1897)
Synonyms
	Gymnodactylus loriae ; Boulenger, 1897; Cyrtodactylus loriae ; — W.C. Brown & F. Parker, 1973; Gonydactylus loriae ; — Kluge, 1991; Cyrtodactylus loriae ; — Rösler, 2000;

Boulenger's bow-fingered gecko (Cyrtodactylus loriae) is a species of gecko, a lizard in the family Gekkonidae. The species is endemic to Papua New Guinea.^[2]

Etymology

The specific name, loriae, is in honor of Italian ethnologist Lamberto Loria.^[3]

The preferred natural habitat of C. loriae is forest, at altitudes of 500–1,500 m (1,600–4,900 ft).^[1]

C. loriae is oviparous.^[2]

^ ^a ^b Tallowin, O.; Oliver, P.; Parker, F. (2017). "Cyrtodactylus loriae". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2017: e.T42482687A42482694. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2017-2.RLTS.T42482687A42482694.en. Retrieved 18 November 2021.
^ ^a ^b ^c Cyrtodactylus loriae at the Reptarium.cz Reptile Database. Accessed 22 March 2018.
^ 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 loriae, p. 160).

Boulenger GA (1897). "An account of the Reptiles and Batrachians collected by Dr. L. Loria in British New Guinea". Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Genova, Serie Seconda 18 (38): 694-710 + Plates VI-VIII. (Gymnodactylus loriae, new species, pp. 695–696 + Plate VI, figures a-d).
de Rooij N (1915). The Reptiles of the Indo-Australian Archipelago. I. Lacertilia, Chelonia, Emydosauria. Leiden: E.J. Brill. xiv + 384 pp. (Gymnodactylus loriae, p. 16).
Rösler H (2000). "Kommentierte Liste der rezent, subrezent und fossil bekannten Geckotaxa (Reptilia: Gekkonomorpha)". Gekkota 2: 28–153. (Cyrtodactylus loriae, p. 66). (in German).

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