Darmandville bow-fingered gecko

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

Darmandville bow-fingered gecko
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Squamata
Family: Gekkonidae
Genus: Cyrtodactylus
Species:
C. darmandvillei
Binomial name
Cyrtodactylus darmandvillei
(Weber, 1890)
Synonyms[1]
  • Gymnodactylus d'armandvillei
    Weber, 1890
  • Gymnodactylus defossei
    Dunn, 1927
  • Cyrtodactylus d'armandvillei
    — Underwood, 1954
  • Gymnodactylus darmandvillei
    — Wermuth, 1965
  • Cyrtodactylus darmandvillei
    — Rösler, 2000

Etymology

The specific name, darmandvillei, is in honor of Jesuit Missionary Father Cornelis J. F. le Coq d'Armandville (1846–1896).[2]

Geographic range

C. darmandvillei is found on the Indonesian islands of Flores, Komodo, Lombok, Pulau Kalao, and Sumbawa.[1]

Description

The holotype of C. darmandville has a snout-to-vent length (SVL) of 8.5 cm (3.3 in) and a tail length of 10 cm (3.9 in).[3]

Reproduction

C. darmandvillei is oviparous.[1]

References
  1. Cyrtodactylus darmandvillei at the Reptarium.cz Reptile Database. Accessed 22 March 2018.
  2. Beolens B, Watkins M, Grayson M (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. ISBN 978-1-4214-0135-5. (Cyrtodactylus darmandvillei, p. 65).
  3. 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).


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