Cnemaspis kumpoli

Cnemaspis kumpoli, also known commonly as Kumpol's rock gecko or the Trang Province gecko, is a species of gecko, a lizard in the family Gekkonidae. The species is endemic to the Malay peninsula.[1]

Cnemaspis kumpoli
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Squamata
Family: Gekkonidae
Genus: Cnemaspis
Species:
C. kumpoli
Binomial name
Cnemaspis kumpoli
Taylor, 1963

Etymology

The specific name, kumpoli, is in honor of Nai Kumpol Isarankura, who was Curator of Zoological Specimens at Chulalongkorn University in Bangkok, Thailand.[2]

Geographic range

C. kumpoli is found in West Malaysia (Perlis, Selangor) and southern Thailand (Satun, Songkhla, Trang).[1]

Reproduction

C. kumpoli is oviparous.[1]

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References
  1. "Cnemaspis kumpoli ". The Reptile Database. Retrieved 2017-11-11.
  2. Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. ISBN 978-1-4214-0135-5. (Cnemaspis kumpoli, p. 148).

Further reading
  • Grismer LL (2011). Lizards of Peninsular Malaysia, Singapore and their Adjacent Archipelagos. Frankfurt am Main: Edition Chimaira. 728 pp. ISBN 978-3899734843.
  • Taylor EH (1963). "The Lizards of Thailand". Univ. Kansas Sci. Bull. 44: 687–1077. (Cnemaspis kumpoli, new species, pp. 746–749, Figure 12).
  • Ulber T, Schäfer C (1986). "Beobachtungen in Biotop von Cnemaspis kumpoli Taylor, 1963 mit einer Wiederbeschreibung der Art [=Observations on the biotope of Cnemaspis kumpoli Taylor, 1963 with a redescription of the species]". Sauria 8 (4): 27–30. (in German).


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