Biology:Cyrtodactylus wakeorum
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Short description: Species of lizard
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Order: | Squamata |
| Family: | Gekkonidae |
| Genus: | Cyrtodactylus |
| Species: | C. wakeorum
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| Cyrtodactylus wakeorum Bauer, 2003
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Cyrtodactylus wakeorum is a species of bent-toed gecko, a lizard in the family Gekkonidae. The species is endemic to Myanmar.
Etymology
The specific name, wakeorum (genitive plural), is in honor of American herpetologists David Burton Wake and Marvalee Hendricks Wake, husband and wife.[2]
Taxonomy
C. wakeorum was discovered in 2001 in Myanmar's Rakhine Yoma Elephant Range and described in 2003.[3][4]
Habitat
The preferred natural habitat of C. wakeorum is forest.[1]
Description
Small for its genus, C. wakeorum may attain a snout-to-vent length (SVL) of 6.4 cm (2.5 in).[4]
Reproduction
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Wogan, G. & Lwin, K. (2021). "Cyrtodactylus wakeorum". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2021: e.T178228A113521099. https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/178228/113521099. Retrieved 20 November 2021.
- ↑ Beolens B, Watkins M, Grayson M (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. ISBN:978-1-4214-0135-5. (Cyrtodactylus wakeorum, p. 278).
- ↑ Bauer AM (2003). "Descriptions of seven new Cyrtodactylus (Squamata: Gekkonidae) with a key to the species of Myanmar (Burma)". Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences 54 (25): 463–498. (Cyrtodactylus wakeorum, new species, pp. 479–482, Figures 10–11).
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 Cyrtodactylus wakeorum at the Reptarium.cz Reptile Database. Accessed 12 January 2020.
Wikidata ☰ Q3009401 entry
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