Darmandville bow-fingered gecko

Darmandville bow-fingered gecko
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Squamata
Infraorder: Gekkota
Family: Gekkonidae
Genus: Cyrtodactylus
Species:
C. darmandvillei
Binomial name
Cyrtodactylus darmandvillei
(Weber, 1890)
Synonyms[2]
  • Gymnodactylus d'armandvillei
    Weber, 1890
  • Gymnodactylus defossei
    Dunn, 1927
  • Cyrtodactylus d'armandvillei
    — Underwood, 1954
  • Gymnodactylus darmandvillei
    — Wermuth, 1965
  • Cyrtodactylus darmandvillei
    — Rösler, 2000

The Darmandville bow-fingered gecko (Cyrtodactylus darmandvillei) is a species of lizard in the family Gekkonidae. The species is endemic to Indonesia.

Etymology

The specific name, darmandvillei, is in honor of Jesuit Missionary Father Cornelis J. F. le Coq d'Armandville (1846–1896).[3]

Geographic range

C. darmandvillei is found on the Indonesian islands of Flores, Komodo, Lombok, Pulau Kalao, and Sumbawa.[2]

Habitat

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

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

C. darmandvillei is both terrestrial and arboreal.[1]

Reproduction

C. darmandvillei is oviparous.[2]

References

  1. ^ 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.
  2. ^ a b c Cyrtodactylus darmandvillei at the Reptarium.cz Reptile Database. Accessed 22 March 2018.
  3. ^ 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).
  4. ^ Weber M (1890).

Further reading

  • 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).