Cyrtodactylus speciosus

Cyrtodactylus speciosus

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: Cyrtodactylus speciosus

Name

Cyrtodactylus speciosus (Beddome, 1870)

• Holotype: BMNH 1946.9.4.88, collected by R.H. Beddome.
• Type locality: “tope near Erode”, Erode District, Tamil Nadu, India.

Combinations

• Gymnodactylus speciosus Beddome, 1870: 172 [original combination]
• Cyrtodactylus speciosus — Agarwal, Mirza, Pal, Maddock, Mishra & Bauer, 2016 [subsequent combination]

References

Primary references

• Beddome, R.H. 1870. Descriptions of new Reptiles from the Madras Presidency. The Madras Monthly Journal of Medical Science 2: 169–176. Reference page. 
• Agarwal, I., Mirza, Z.A., Pal, S., Maddock, S.T., Mishra, A. & Bauer, A.M. 2016. A new species of the Cyrtodactylus (Geckoella) collegalensis (Beddome, 1870) complex (Squamata: Gekkonidae) from Western India. Zootaxa 4170(2): 339–354. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4170.2.7 Reference page. 

Links

• Uetz, P. & Hallermann, J. 2024. Cyrtodactylus speciosus. The Reptile Database. Accessed on 17 November 2022.

Vernacular names

English: Forest Spotted Gecko