- Cnemaspis kandiana
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Kandy Day Gecko Scientific classification Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Reptilia Order: Squamata Suborder: Sauria Family: Gekkonidae Genus: Cnemaspis Species: C. kandiana Binomial name Cnemaspis kandiana
(Kelaart, 1852)Synonyms Gonatodes kandianus
Kandy Day Gecko, Kandy Rock Gecko Cnemaspis kandiana is a species of diurnal gecko found in Sri Lanka, southern India, Andaman Islands, Indonesia (Sumatra), and southern Thailand.
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Description
Head rather elongate; snout obtusely pointed, longer than the distance between the eye and the ear-opening, l.5 the diameter of the orbit; forehead not concave; ear-opening small, oval. Body and limbs rather slender; the hind limb reaching the axilla or the shoulder. Digits slender, the basal part not dilated, scarcely wider than the distal, and with enlarged plates beneath. Snout covered with suboval keeled granules; the rest of the head minutely granulate; rostral twice as broad as deep, with median emargination and cleft above; nostril pierced between the rostral and three or four nasals; 7 or 8 upper and as many lower labials; mental large, triangular, with truncated posterior angle; numerous small chin-shields passing gradually into the gular granules, which are feebly keeled. Upper surface of body covered with small, more or less distinctly keeled granules, intermixed with irregularly scattered small keeled tubercles; flanks with small, widely separated, spine-like tubercles. Scales on the limbs keeled. Ventral scales cycloid, imbricate, those under the neck keeled, the others smooth (or keeled in the var. tropidogaster'). Males with 3 or 4 preanal, and on each side 3 to 5 femoral pores. Tail cylindrical, tapering, above with very small keeled scales and annuli of spine-like tubercles, beneath with larger scales, but no transversely dilated median plates. Brown above, variegated with darker and lighter, these variegations generally forming transverse markings on the back and tail; some-tames a light vertebral band; the spine-hke tubercles on the flanks white; lower surfaces light brown or dirty white, the throat sometimes blackish. From snout to vent 1.4 inches; tail 1.5 inches.[1]
Type locality: Mountains of Kandy, Sri Lanka.
Notes
- ^ Boulenger, G. A. 1890. Fauna of British India. Reptilia and Batrachia. p. 77-78
References
- Annandale, N. 1905 Contributions to Oriental herpetology l. The lizards of the Andamans, with the description of a new gecko and a note on the reproduced tail in Ptychozoon homalocephalum. Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal, 73 (supplement) :12-22
- Beddome, R.H. 1870 Descriptions of some new lizards from the Madras Presidency. Madras Monthly J. Med. Sci. 1: 30-35
- Jerdon, T.C. 1853 Catalogue of the Reptiles inhabiting the Peninsula of India. Part 1. J. Asiat. Soc. Bengal xxii [1853]: 462-479
- Kelaart, E.F. 1852 Ceylon Reptiles. In: Prodomus Faunae Zeylanicae. Vol. 1. Part 3. Colombo, pp. 143-187.
- Kluge A. G. 1993 Gekkonoid Lizard Taxonomy. International Gecko Society, San Diego, 245 pp.
- Rösler, Herbert 1995 Geckos der Welt - Alle Gattungen. Urania, Leipzig, 256 pp.
- Rösler, H. 2000 Kommentierte Liste der rezent, subrezent und fossil bekannten Geckotaxa (Reptilia: Gekkonomorpha). Gekkota 2: 28-153
- Stoliczka, F. 1873 Notes on some Andamese and Nicobarese Reptiles, with the descriptions of three new species of lizards. J. Asiat. Soc. Bengal 42: 162-169
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