Cnemaspis sisparensis
Taxonavigation
[edit]Taxonavigation: Gekkonoidea |
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Superregnum: Eukaryota |
Familia: Gekkonidae
Genus: Cnemaspis
Species: Cnemaspis sisparensis
Name
[edit]Cnemaspis sisparensis Theobald, 1876 [nomen novum]
- Holotype: BMNH 74.4.29.383, ♂, collected by Col. Beddome.
- Type locality: “At Sholakal, the foot of the Sispara Ghat”, Malappuram district, Kerala, India.
Combinations
[edit]- Gymnodactylus sisparensis Theobald, 1876: 86 [original combination, nomen novum for Gymnodactylus maculatus Beddome, 1870]
- Gonatodes sisparensis — Boulenger, 1885: 66 [subsequent combination]
- Cnemaspis sisparensis — Smith, 1935: 69 [subsequent combination]
Synonyms
[edit]- Gymnodactylus maculatus Beddome, 1870: 174 [nomen praeoccupatum pro Gymnodactylus maculatus Steindachner, 1867]
- Holotype: BMNH 74.4.29.383, ♂, collected by Col. Beddome.
- Type locality: “At Sholakal, the foot of the Sispara Ghat”.
- Gonatodes bireticulatus Annandale, 1915: 344 [synonymised by Manamendra-Arachchi, Batuwita & Pethiyagoda (2007: 32)]
- Holotype: ZSI 17970, ♂, collected by F.H. Gravely.
- Type locality: “Karalai 1300-3000 ft, Cochin State”.
- Cnemaspis anaikattiensis Mukherjee, Bhupathy & Nixon, 2005: 1327 [synonymised by Manamendra-Arachchi, Batuwita & Pethiyagoda (2007: 32)]
- Holotype: ZSI 25601, ♂, collected by A.M.A. Nixon and D. Mukherjee on 17 September 2003.
- Type locality: “Anaikatti Hills, Western Ghats, Coimbatore district, Tamil Nadu, India, 11°05′30.9″N, 76°47′36.2″E”.
- Paratype: ZSI 25602, ♀, same data as for the holotype.
Native distribution areas
[edit]- India: Tamil Nadu and Kerala.
References
[edit]Primary references
[edit]- Beddome, R.H. 1870. Descriptions of new Reptiles from the Madras Presidency. The Madras Monthly Journal of Medical Science 2: 169–176. Reference page.
- Theobald, W. 1876. Descriptive catalogue of the reptiles of British India. Thacker, Spink & Co.: Calcutta. xiii + 238 pp.
- Annandale, N. 1915. Herpetological notes and descriptions. Records of the Indian Museum 11: 341–347.
- Mukherjee, D., Bhupathy, S. & Nixon, A.M.A. 2005. A new species of day gecko (Squamata, Gekkonidae, Cnemaspis) from the Anaikatti Hills, Western Ghats, Tamil Nadu, India. Current Science 89(8): 1326–1328. JSTOR Reference page.
- Manamendra-Arachchi, K., Batuwita, S. & Pethiyagoda, R. 2007. A taxonomic revision of the Sri Lankan day-geckos (Reptilia: Gekkonidae: Cnemaspis), with description of new species from Sri Lanka and southern India. Zeylanica 7(1): 9–122. Reference page.
Additional references
[edit]- Cyriac, V.P., Palot, M.J., Deuti, K. & Umesh, P.K. 2020. A preliminary 16S rRNA phylogeny of the Indian Cnemaspis Strauch, 1887 (Squamata: Gekkonidae) with the description of two new cryptic species from the C. wynadensis clade. Vertebrate Zoology 70(2): 171–193. DOI: 10.26049/VZ70-2-2020-06 Reference page.
Links
[edit]- Uetz, P. & Hallermann, J. 2024. Cnemaspis sisparensis. The Reptile Database. Accessed on 2 February 2023.
- Srinivasulu, C. & Srinivasulu, B. 2013. IUCN: Cnemaspis sisparensis (Near Threatened). The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2013: e.T172603A1350155. DOI: 10.2305/IUCN.UK.2013-1.RLTS.T172603A1350155.en. Accessed on 02 February 2023.