Cnemaspis bangara

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: Cnemaspis bangara

Name

Cnemaspis bangara Khandekar, Thackeray, Pal & Agarwal 2020: 1244

• Holotype: BNHS 2584 (field number AK 292), adult ♂, collected by Akshay Khandekar, Nikhil Gaitonde and Tejas Thackeray on 15 January 2019.
• Type locality: “near Aadima Theatre, Paparajanahalli village, near Kolar (13.135 N 78.093 E; ca. 1,050 m asl.), Kolar District, Karnataka, India”.

References

Primary references

• Agarwal, I., Thackeray, T., Pal, S. & Khandekar, A. 2020. Granite boulders act as deep-time climate refugia: A Miocene divergent clade of rupicolous Cnemaspis Strauch, 1887 (Squamata: Gekkonidae) from the Mysore Plateau, India, with descriptions of three new species. Journal of Zoological Systematics and Evolutionary Research 58(4): 1234–1261. DOI: 10.1111/jzs.12391 Reference page. 

Links

• Uetz, P. & Hallermann, J. 2024. Cnemaspis bangara. The Reptile Database. Accessed on 5 April 2022.

Vernacular names

English: Golden Banded Dwarf Gecko