Cnemaspis

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Gekkonoidea
Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Superphylum: Deuterostomia Phylum: Chordata Subphylum: Vertebrata Infraphylum: Gnathostomata Megaclassis: Osteichthyes Cladus: Sarcopterygii Cladus: Rhipidistia Cladus: Tetrapodomorpha Cladus: Eotetrapodiformes Cladus: Elpistostegalia Superclassis: Tetrapoda Cladus: Reptiliomorpha Cladus: Amniota Classis: Reptilia Cladus: Eureptilia Cladus: Romeriida Subclassis: Diapsida Cladus: Sauria Infraclassis: Lepidosauromorpha Superordo: Lepidosauria Ordo: Squamata Subordo: Gekkota Infraordo: Gekkomorpha Superfamilia: Gekkonoidea

Familia: Gekkonidae
Genus: Cnemaspis
Species (206): C. aaronbaueri – C. aceh – C. adangrawi – C. adii – C. affinis – C. agarwali – C. agayagangai – C. ajijae – C. alwisi – C. amba – C. amboliensis – C. amith – C. anamudiensis – C. anandani – C. andalas – C. andersonii – C. anslemi – C. argus – C. assamensis – C. aurantiacopes – C. auriventralis – C. australis – C. avasabinae – C. azhagu – C. balerion – C. bangara – C. baueri – C. bayuensis – C. beddomei – C. bidongensis – C. biocellata – C. boiei – C. boulengerii – C. butewai – C. calderana – C. caudanivea – C. chanardi – C. chanthaburiensis – C. chengodumalaensis – C. dezwaani – C. dissanayakai – C. dringi – C. fantastica – C. flavigaster – C. flavigularis – C. flaviventralis – C. flavolineata – C. galaxia – C. gemunu – C. ganeshaiahi – C. gemunu – C. girii – C. goaensis – C. godagedarai – C. gotaimbarai – C. gracilis – C. graniticola – C. grismeri – C. gunasekarai – C. gunawardanai – C. hangus – C. harimau – C. heteropholis – C. hitihamii – C. huaseesom – C. indica – C. ingerorum – C. jackieii – C. jacobsoni – C. jayaweerai – C. jerdonii – C. kalakadensis – C. kallima – C. kamolnorranathi – C. kandambyi – C. kandiana – C. karsticola – C. kawminiae – C. kendallii – C. kivulegedarai – C. kohukumburai – C. kolhapurensis – C. kotagamai – C. kottiyoorensis – C. koynaensis – C. krishnagiriensis – C. kumarasinghei – C. kumpoli – C. lagang – C. laoensis – C. latha – C. leucura – C. limayei – C. limi – C. lineatubercularis – C. lineogularis – C. lithophilis – C. littoralis – C. lokugei – C. maculicollis – C. magnifica – C. mahabali – C. mahsuriae – C. manoae – C. matahari – C. mcguirei – C. menikay – C. minang – C. modiglianii – C. molligodai – C. monachorum – C. monticola – C. mumpuniae – C. mundanthuraiensis – C. muria – C. mysoriensis – C. nairi – C. nanayakkarai – C. nandimithrai – C. narathiwatensis – C. neangthyi – C. nicobaricus – C. nigridia – C. nigriventris – C. nilagirica – C. nilgala – C. nimbus – C. niyomwanae – C. nuicamensis – C. omari – C. ornata – C. otai – C. pachaimalaiensis – C. pagai – C. palakkadensis – C. palanica – C. paripari – C. pava – C. pemanggilensis – C. peninsularis – C. perhentianensis – C. phangngaensis – C. phillipsi – C. phuketensis – C. podihuna – C. pseudomcguirei – C. psychedelica – C. pulchra – C. punctata – C. punctatonuchalis – C. purnamai – C. rajabasa – C. rajakarunai – C. rajgadensis – C. rammalensis – C. ranganaensis – C. regalis – C. retigalensis – C. rishivalleyensis – C. roticanai – C. rubraoculus – C. rudhira – C. sakleshpurensis – C. samanalensis – C. salimalii – C. samanalensis – C. samui – C. sathuragiriensis – C. scalpensis – C. schalleri – C. selamatkanmerapoh – C. selenolagus – C. shahruli – C. shevaroyensis – C. siamensis – C. silvula – C. similan – C. sirehensis – C. sisparensis – C. smaug – C. stellapulvis – C. stongensis – C. sundagekko – C. sundainsula – C. tanintharyi – C. tapanuli – C. tarutaoensis – C. temiah – C. thachanaensis – C. thackerayi – C. thayawthadangyi – C. tigris – C. tropidogaster – C. tubaensis – C. tucdupensis – C. umashaankeri – C. upendrai – C. uttaraghati – C. vandeventeri – C. vangoghi – C. vijayae – C. wallaceii – C. whittenorum – C. wicksi – C. wynadensis – C. yelagiriensis – C. yercaudensis – C. zacharyi

Name

Cnemaspis Strauch, 1887

Type species: Cnemaspis boulengerii Strauch, 1887, by monotypy.

References

Primary references

Strauch, A.A. 1887. Bemerkungen über die Geckoniden-Sammlung im zoologischen Museum der kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu St. Petersburg. Mémoires de l'Académie impériale des sciences de St.-Pétersbourg. Septième Série 35(2): 1–72. BHL Reference page.

Additional references

Das, I. & Bauer, A.M. Two new species of Cnemaspis (Sauria: Gekonidae) from Tamil Nadu, southern India. Russian Journal of Herpetology 7(1): 17–28. DOI: 10.30906/1026-2296-2000-7-1-17-28 [nonfunctional] ; Abstract Reference page.
Giri, V.B., Bauer, A.M. & Gaikwad, K.S. 2009. A new ground-dwelling species of Cnemaspis Strauch (Squamata: Gekkonidae) from the northern Western Ghats, Maharashtra, India. Zootaxa, 2164: 49–60. Abstract & excerpt
Grismer, L.L.; Onn, C.K. 2009: A new species of karst dwelling Cnemaspis Strauch 1887 (Squamata: Gekkonidae) from Sarawak, Borneo. Zootaxa, 2246: 21–31. Abstract & excerpt
Grismer, J.L.; Grismer, L.L.; Chav, T. 2010: New species of Cnemaspis Strauch 1887 (Squamata: Gekkonidae) from southwestern Cambodia. Journal of herpetology, 44: 28–36. DOI: 10.1670/08-211.1
Grismer, L.L. 2010: The first record of the genus Cnemaspis Strauch (Squamata: Gekkonidae) from Laos with the description of a new species. Zootaxa, 2475: 55–63. Preview
Grismer, L.L. et al. 2010: Another new, diminutive Rock Gecko (Cnemaspis Strauch) from Peninsular Malaysia and a discussion of resource partitioning in sympatric species pairs. Zootaxa, 2569: 55–66. Preview
Grismer, L.L. et al. 2010: A revision and redescription of the rock gecko Cnemaspis siamensis (Taylor 1925) (Squamata: Gekkonidae) from Peninsular Thailand with descriptions of seven new species. Zootaxa, 2576: 1–55. Preview
Grismer, L.L.; Onn, C.K. 2010: Another new rock gecko (genus Cnemaspis Strauch 1887) from Pulau Langkawi, Kedah, Peninsular Malaysia. Zootaxa, 2419: 51–62. Preview
Grismer, L.L.; Tri, N., van; Grismer, J.L. 2010: A colorful new species of insular rock gecko (Cnemaspis Strauch 1887) from southern Vietnam. Zootaxa, 2352: 46–58. Preview
Onn, C.K. et al. 2010: A new endemic rock gecko Cnemaspis Strauch 1887 (Squamata: Gekkonidae) from Gunung Jerai, Kedah, northwestern Peninsular Malaysia. Zootaxa, 2576: 59–68. Preview
Grismer, L.L., Wood, Jr., P.L., Mohamed, M., Chan, K.O., Heinz, H.M., Sumarli, A.S.-I., Chan, J.A. & Loredo, A.I. 2013. A new species of karst-adapted Cnemaspis Strauch, 1887 (Squamata: Gekkonidae) from a threatened karst region in Pahang, Peninsular Malaysia. Zootaxa 3746(3): 463–472. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3746.3.5 Reference page.
Wood, Jr., P.L., Quah, E.S.H., Shahrul Anuar M.S. & Muin, M.A. 2013. A new species of lowland karst dwelling Cnemaspis Strauch 1887 (Squamata: Gekkonidae) from northwestern Peninsular Malaysia. Zootaxa 3691(5): 538–558. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3691.5.2 Reference page.
Cyriac, V.P. & Umesh, P.K. 2014. Description of a New Ground-Dwelling Cnemaspis Strauch, 1887 (Squamata: Gekkonidae), from Kerala, Allied to C. wynadensis (Beddome, 1870). Russian Journal of Herpetology 21(3): 187–194. DOI: 10.30906/1026-2296-2014-21-3-187-194 [nonfunctional] Reference page.
Grismer, L.L., Wood, P.L., Jr., Ahmad, A.B., Sumarli, A.S.-I., Vazquez, J.J., Ismail, L.H.B., Nance, R., Mohd-Amin, M.A., Othman, M.N.A.B., Rizal, S.A., Kuss, M., Murdoch, M. & Cobos, A. 2014. A new species of insular rock gecko (Genus Cnemaspis Strauch, 1887) from the Bidong Archipelago, Terengganu, Peninsular Malaysia. Zootaxa 3755(5): 447–456. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3755.5.4 Reference page.
Grismer, L.L., Wood Jr, P.L., Anuar, S., Riyanto, A., Ahmad, N., Muin, M.A., Sumontha, M., Grismer, J.L., Chan, K.O., Quah, E.S.H. & Pauwels, O.S.G. 2014. Systematics and natural history of Southeast Asian rock geckos (genus Cnemaspis Strauch, 1887) with descriptions of eight new species from Malaysia, Thailand, and Indonesia. Zootaxa 3880(1): 1–147. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3880.1.1 ; ResearchGate Reference page.
Amarasinghe, A.A.T., Harvey, M.B., Riyanto, A. & Smith, E.N. 2015. A New Species of Cnemaspis (Reptilia: Gekkonidae) from Sumatra, Indonesia. Herpetologica 71(2): 160–167. DOI: 10.1655/HERPETOLOGICA-D-14-00034 ; ResearchGate Reference page.
Srinivasulu, C., Kumar, G.C. & Srinivasulu, B. 2015. A new species of Cnemaspis (Sauria: Gekkonidae) from Northern Karnataka, India. Zootaxa 3947(1): 85–98. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3947.1.5 Reference page.
Grismer, L.L., Wood, P.L. Jr, Quah, E.S.H., Anuar, S., Ngadi, E. & Ahmad, N. 2015. A new insular species of Rock Gecko (Cnemaspis Boulenger) from Pulau Langkawi, Kedah, Peninsular Malaysia. Zootaxa 3985(2): 203–218. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3985.2.2 Reference page.
Sayyed, A., Pyron, R.A. & Dahanukar, N. 2016. Cnemaspis flaviventralis, a new species of gecko (Squamata: Gekkonidae) from the Western Ghats of Maharashtra, India. Journal of Threatened Taxa 8(14): 9619–9629. DOI: 10.11609/jott.2599.8.14.9619-9629 Reference page.
Wickramasinghe, M.L.J., Vidanapathirana, D.R. & Rathnayake, R.M.G.P. 2016. Cnemaspis rajakarunai sp. nov., a rock dwelling day-gecko (Sauria: Gekkonidae: Cnemaspis) from Salgala, an unprotected lowland rainforest in Sri Lanka. Zootaxa 4168(1): 92–108. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4168.1.4 Reference page.
Batuwita, S. & Udugampala, S. 2017. Description of a new species of Cnemaspis (Squamata: Gekkonidae) from Knuckles Range of Sri Lanka. Zootaxa 4254(1): 82–90. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4254.1.4 Reference page.
Iskandar, D.T., McGuire, J.A. & Amarasinghe, A.A.T. 2017. Description of Five New Day Geckos of Cnemaspis kandiana Group (Sauria: Gekkonidae) from Sumatra and Mentawai Archipelago, Indonesia. Journal of Herpetology 51(1): 142–153. DOI: 10.1670/15-047 ; PDF; ResearchGate Reference page.
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Riyanto, A., Hamidy, A., Sidik, I. & Gunalen, D. 2017. A new species of rock gecko of the genus Cnemaspis Strauch, 1887 (Squamata: Gekkonidae) from Belitung Island, Indonesia. Zootaxa 4358(3): 583–597. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4358.3.12 ; ResearchGate Reference page.
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Ampai, N., Rujirawan, A., Wood, Jr., P.L., Stuart, B.L. & Aowphol, A. 2019. Morphological and molecular analyses reveal two new insular species of Cnemaspis Strauch, 1887 (Squamata, Gekkonidae) from Satun Province, southern Thailand. ZooKeys 858: 127–161. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.858.34297 Reference page.
Batuwita, S., Agarwal, I. & Bauer, A.M. 2019. Description of a new diminutive, rupicolous species of day-gecko (Squamata: Gekkonidae: Cnemaspis) from southern Sri Lanka. Zootaxa 4565(2): 223–234. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4565.2.6 Reference page.
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Khandekar, A., Thackeray, T. & Agarwal, I. 2019. Two more new species of Cnemaspis Strauch, 1887 (Squamata: Gekkonidae) from the northern Western Ghats, Maharashtra, India. Zootaxa 4656(1): 43–70. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4656.1.2 Reference page.
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Sayyed, A., Grismer, L.L., Campbell, P.D. & Dileepkumar, R. 2019. Description of a cryptic new species of Cnemaspis Strauch, 1887 (Squamata: Gekkonidae) from the Western Ghats of Kerala State of India. Zootaxa 4656(3): 501–514. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4656.3.7 Reference page.
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Karunarathna, S., Silva, A., Gabadage, D., Botejue, M., Madawala, M. & Ukuwela, K.D.B. 2021. A new species of day gecko (Reptilia, Gekkonidae, Cnemaspis Strauch, 1887) from Sri Lanka with an updated ND2 gene phylogeny of Sri Lankan and Indian species. Zoosystematics and Evolution 97(1): 191–209. DOI: 10.3897/zse.97.60099 Reference page.
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Agarwal, I., Thackeray, T. & Khandekar, A. 2022. A multitude of spots! Five new microendemic species of the Cnemaspis gracilis group (Squamata: Gekkonidae) from massifs in the Shevaroy landscape, Tamil Nadu, India. Vertebrate Zoology 72: 1137–1186. DOI: 10.3897/vz.72.e94799 Reference page.
Khandekar, A., Thackeray, T. & Agarwal, I. 2022. Three new cryptic species of South Asian Cnemaspis Strauch, 1887 (Squamata, Gekkonidae) from Karnataka, India. Vertebrate Zoology 72: 115–142. DOI: 10.3897/vz.72.e76308 Reference page.
Khandekar, A., Thackeray, T. & Agarwal, I. 2022. Three more novel species of South Asian Cnemaspis Strauch, 1887 (Squamata, Gekkonidae) from Kalakad Mundanthurai Tiger Reserve, Tamil Nadu, India. Vertebrate Zoology 72: 385–422. DOI: 10.3897/vz.72.e82343 Reference page.
Ampai, N., Rujirawan, A., Yodthong, S., Termprayoon, K., Stuart, B.L., Wood, P.L. Jr. & Aowphol, A. 2022. Hidden diversity of rock geckos within the Cnemaspis siamensis species group (Gekkonidae, Squamata): genetic and morphological data from southern Thailand reveal two new insular species and verify the phylogenetic affinities of C. chanardi and C. kamolnorranathi. ZooKeys 1125: 115–158. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.1125.94060 Reference page.
Nashriq, I., Davis, H.R., Bauer, A.M. & Das, I. 2022. Three new apecies of Cnemaspis (Sauria: Gekkonidae) from Sarawak, East Malaysia, Borneo. Zootaxa 5120(1): 1–29. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5120.1.1 Reference page.
Rujirawan, A., Yodthong, S., Ampai, N., Terrmpyoon, K., Aksornneam, A., Stuart, B.L. & Aowphol, A. 2022. A new rock gecko in the Cnemaspis siamensis group (Reptilia, Gekkonidae) from Kanchanaburi Province, western Thailand. Zoosystematics and Evolution 98(2): 345–363. DOI: 10.3897/zse.98.89591 Reference page.
Karunarathna, S., Ukuwela, K.D.B., de Silva, A., Bauer, A.M., Madawala, M., Poyarkov, N.A., Botejue, M., Gabadage, D., Grismer, L.L. & Gorin, V.A. 2023. A phylogenetic and taxonomic assessment of the Cnemaspis alwisi group (Reptilia: Gekkonidae) in Sri Lanka with a description of two new species from isolated misty-mountains. Vertebrate Zoology 73: 205–236. DOI: 10.3897/vz.73.e90979 Reference page.
Khandekar, A., Thackeray, T. & Agarwal, I. 2024. Two new species of the Cnemaspis galaxia complex (Squamata, Gekkonidae) from the eastern slopes of the southern Western Ghats. ZooKeys 1196: 209–242. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.1196.117947 Reference page.