Biology:Smith’s bent-toed gecko
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Order: | Squamata |
| Family: | Gekkonidae |
| Genus: | Hemidactylus |
| Species: | H. malcolmsmithi
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| Hemidactylus malcolmsmithi (Constable, 1949)
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Smith's bent-toed gecko (Hemidactylus malcolmsmithi) is a species of lizards in the family Gekkonidae. The species is endemic to India . It is sometimes placed in the genus Cyrtodactylus.
Etymology
The specific name, malcolmsmithi, is in honor of British herpetologist Malcolm Arthur Smith.[2]
Geographic range
It is found in the Indian state of Punjab.[3]
Type locality: "Beas River basin, Punjab, India".[4]
References
- ↑ Khan, M.S. 2010. Cyrtodactylus malcolmsmithi. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2010: e.T178497A7558883. https://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2010-4.RLTS.T178497A7558883.en. Downloaded on 19 April 2018.
- ↑ 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. (Cyrtodactylus malcolmsmithi, p. 247).
- ↑ " Hemidactylus malcolmsmithi ". The Reptile Database. www.reptile-database.org.
- ↑ Constable 1949.
Further reading
- Constable, John D. (1949). "Reptiles from the Indian Peninsula in the Museum of Comparative Zoology". Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., Cambridge (Massachusetts) 103 (2): 59-160. (Gymnodactylus malcolmsmithi, new species, pp. 80–82).
- Underwood, Garth (1954). "On the classification and evolution of geckos". Proc. Zool. Soc. London 124 (3): 469-492.
External links
Wikidata ☰ Q3009318 entry
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