Darmandville bow-fingered gecko
| Darmandville bow-fingered gecko | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Order: | Squamata |
| Family: | Gekkonidae |
| Genus: | Cyrtodactylus |
| Species: | C. darmandvillei
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| Binomial name | |
| Cyrtodactylus darmandvillei (Weber, 1890)
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The Darmandville bow-fingered gecko (Cyrtodactylus darmandvillei) is a species of lizard in the family Gekkonidae. The species is endemic to Indonesia.
Etymology
[edit]The specific name, darmandvillei, is in honor of Jesuit Missionary Father Cornelis J. F. le Coq d'Armandville (1846–1896).[3]
Geographic range
[edit]C. darmandvillei is found on the Indonesian islands of Flores, Komodo, Lombok, Pulau Kalao, and Sumbawa.[2]
Habitat
[edit]The preferred natural habitats of C. darmandvillei are forest and freshwater wetlands, at altitudes from sea level to 650 m (2,130 ft).[1]
Description
[edit]The holotype of C. darmandvillei has a snout-to-vent length (SVL) of 8.5 cm (3.3 in) and a tail length of 10 cm (3.9 in).[4]
Behavior
[edit]C. darmandvillei is both terrestrial and arboreal.[1]
Reproduction
[edit]C. darmandvillei is oviparous.[2]
References
[edit]- ^ a b c Reilly S (2021). "Cyrtodactylus darmandvillei ". The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2021: https://dx.doi.org/10.1305/IUCN.UK.2021-3.RLTS.T104688238A104718486.en. Accessed on 06 June 2022.
- ^ a b c Cyrtodactylus darmandvillei 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 darmandvillei, p. 65).
- ^ Weber M (1890).
Further reading
[edit]- Mecke S, Kieckbusch M, Hartmann L, Kaiser H (2016). "Historical considerations and comments on the type series of Cyrtodactylus marmoratus Gray, 1831, with an updated comparative table for the bent-toed geckos of the Sunda Islands and Sulawesi". Zootaxa 4175 (4): 353–365.
- Rösler H (2000). "Kommentierte Liste der rezent, subrezent und fossil bekannten Geckotaxa (Reptilia: Gekkonomorpha)". Gekkota 2: 28–153. (Cyrtodactylus darmandvillei, p. 65). (in German).
- Weber M (1890). "Reptilia from the Malay Archipelago. 1. Sauria, Crocodilidae, Chelonia". pp. 158–177. (in English). In: Weber M (1890). Zoologische Ergebnisse einer Reise in Niederländische Ost-Indien, Erster Band [Volume I]. Leiden: E.J. Brill. xi + 460 pp. + Plates I–XXV. (in German, English, and Latin). (Gymnodactylus d'armandvillei, new species, pp. 163–164 + Plate XIV, figure 1).