Biology:Cyrtodactylus chungi

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Short description: Species of reptile

Cyrtodactylus chungi
Scientific classification edit
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Squamata
Family: Gekkonidae
Genus: Cyrtodactylus
Species:
C. chungi
Binomial name
Cyrtodactylus chungi
Ostrowski, Le, Ngo, Pham, Phung, Nguyen & Ziegler, 2021

Cyrtodactylus chungi is a species of gecko known only from two specimens found in the Ta Kou Nature Reserve in Binh Thuan province, Vietnam. It is also known as Chung's bent-toed gecko. C. chungi is part of the Cyrtodactylus irregularis species-group and is sister species to Cyrtodactylus cattienensis.[1]

Both C. chungi's scientific and common names are named for Dr. Ngo Dac Chung, a herpetologist at Hue University.[2]

References

  1. Ostrowski, Sabrina; Le, Minh Duc; Ngo, Hanh Thi; Pham, Cuong The; Phung, Trung My; Nguyen, Truong Quang; Ziegler, Thomas (2021-01-13). "A new Cyrtodactylus (Squamata: Gekkonidae) from Binh Thuan Province, southern Vietnam" (in en). European Journal of Taxonomy (731): 47–70. doi:10.5852/ejt.2021.731.1203. ISSN 2118-9773. https://europeanjournaloftaxonomy.eu/index.php/ejt/article/view/1203. 
  2. Pskhun (2021-01-14). "Species New to Science: [Herpetology • 2021 Cyrtodactylus chungi • A New Cyrtodactylus (Squamata: Gekkonidae) from Binh Thuan Province, southern Vietnam"]. http://novataxa.blogspot.com/2021/01/cyrtodactylus-chungi.html. 

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