Cyrtodactylus nigriocularis

Cyrtodactylus nigriocularis is a species of geckos endemic to southern Vietnam.[1][2]

Cyrtodactylus nigriocularis
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Squamata
Family: Gekkonidae
Genus: Cyrtodactylus
Species:
C. nigriocularis
Binomial name
Cyrtodactylus nigriocularis
Nguyen, Orlov & Darevsky, 2006
Synonyms

Cyrtodactylus nigroocularis (misspelling)

Description

This species can be distinguished by its depressed head with a wide and depressed snout; its moderately slender body, which is elongate, with developed ventrolateral folds; moderately long limbs and digits long; a tail that is longer than the snount-vent length, which carries large undivided subcaudals; 13–14 upper labials, 13–15 lower labials, 17–21 narrow subdigital lamellaes on its fourth toe; about 119–145 scale rows around its midbody; and no femoral large scales present.[1]

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References

  1. Nguyen, Ngoc Sang; Nikolai L. Orlov & Ilya S. Darevsky (2006). "Descriptions of two new species of the genus Cyrtodactylus Gray, 1827 (Squamata: Sauria: Gekkonidae) from southern Vietnam". Russian Journal of Herpetology. 13 (3): 215–226.
  2. Cyrtodactylus nigriocularis at the Reptarium.cz Reptile Database. Accessed 22 November 2015.


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