Nilgiri day gecko | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Reptilia |
Order: | Squamata |
Family: | Gekkonidae |
Genus: | Cnemaspis |
Species: | C. nilagirica
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Binomial name | |
Cnemaspis nilagirica Manamendra-Arachchi, Batuwita & Pethiyagoda, 2007
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The Nilgiri day gecko (Cnemaspis nilagirica) is a species of gecko endemic to southern India.[2] It was formerly known only from a single female specimen collected in 1885 that was misidentified as a variety of the Kandyan day gecko (C. kandiana var. tropidogaster ) by George Albert Boulenger, who used it as a syntype for his description of the variety. After a living population was not reported for over 130 years, a live male was collected in 2019, marking the first collection of a male specimen of C. nilagirica.[3]