Nilgiri day gecko

Species of reptile

Nilgiri day gecko

Conservation status

Near Threatened (IUCN 3.1)[1]

Scientific classification
Domain:  | Eukaryota
Kingdom:  | Animalia
Phylum:  | Chordata
Class:  | Reptilia
Order:  | Squamata
Family:  | Gekkonidae
Genus:  | Cnemaspis
Species:  |

C. nilagirica

Binomial name
Cnemaspis nilagirica

Manamendra-Arachchi, Batuwita & Pethiyagoda, 2007

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]

## References

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1. ^ Ganesh, S.R. 2021. Cnemaspis nilagirica. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2021: e.T194097A158443820. https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/194097/158443820. Downloaded on 18 October 2021.
2. ^ "Cnemaspis nilagirica". The Reptile Database. Retrieved 2017-11-11.
3. ^ Campbell, Patrick D.; Palot, Muhamed Jafer; Umesh, Pavukandy; Johny, Alex; Cyriac, Vivek Philip (2019-04-16). "Rediscovery of Cnemaspis nilagirica Manamendra-Arachchi, Batuwita and Pethiyagoda, 2007 (Squamata: Gekkonidae) from Kerala, India with notes on morphology and distribution". Zootaxa. 4586 (1): 98–108. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4586.1.4. ISSN 1175-5334. PMID 31716143.

Taxon identifiers

Cnemaspis nilagirica|

* Wikidata: Q2980882
* Wikispecies: Cnemaspis nilagirica
* CoL: WGN5
* EoL: 23670377
* GBIF: 6066653
* iNaturalist: 98053
* ITIS: 818243
* IUCN: 194097
* NCBI: 2718615
* Observation.org: 98157
* Open Tree of Life: 4122713
* RD: nilagirica

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