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Cnemaspis tropidogaster (Boulenger, 1885)

Rough-bellied day gecko, Ralodara divasarihuna

 

 

Taxonomy & Nomenclature

 

 

Conservation Status

Last record: c.1896

Rediscovered in 2016 or before

IUCN RedList status: Data Deficient

 

Distribution

Sri Lanka

 

Biology & Ecology

 

 

Hypodigm

 

 

Media

 

 

References

Original scientific description:

Boulenger, G. A. (1885). Catalogue of the Lizards in the British Museum (Natural History). British Museum (Natural History), London. 436 pp.

 

Other references:

Amarasinghe, A. A. Thasun et al. (2016). The Re-discovery of live populations of [i]Cnemaspis tropidogaster[/i] (Boulenger, 1885) (Sauria, Gekkonidae) from Sri Lanka after 120 years. Zootaxa 4200(3): 395-405. [Abstract]

Ganesh, S.R., R. Sreekar, S.P. Pal, G. Ramchandra, C. Srinivasulu & B. Srinivasulu (2011). Discovery and first description of male Cnemaspis heteropholis Bauer, 2002 (Reptilia: Gekkonidae) from Agumbe, central Western Ghats, India. Journal of Threatened Taxa 3(8): 2023-2027.

Goonewardene, S., Hawkes, Z., Vanneck, V., Drion, A., de Silva, A., Jayarathne, R. and Perera, J. (2003). Diversity of Nilgala Fire Savannah, Sri Lanka: with special reference to its herpetofauna.

Inger, R. F., Hymen, M. and Koshy, M. (1984). An undescribed species of Gekkonid Lizard (Cnemaspis) from India with comments on the status of C. Tropidogaster. Herpetologica 40(2): 149-154.

Manamendra-Aarachchi, K, S. Batuwita and Pethiyagoda, R. (2007). A taxonomic revision of the Sri Lankan day-geckos (Reptilia: Gekkonidae: Cnemaspis), with description of new species from Sri Lanka and Southern India. Zeylanica 7(1): 9-122.

de Silva, A. (2010). Cnemaspis tropidogaster. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2010: e.T178508A7560996. http://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2010-4.RLTS.T178508A7560996.en. Downloaded on 02 December 2016.

Taylor, E. H. (1953). A review of the lizards of Ceylon. The University of Kansas Science Bulletin 35(2): 1525-1585.

Wickramasinghe, L. J. Mendis. (2012). The Taxonomy and Conservation Status of the Reptile Fauna in Sri Lanka, pp. 99-113. In: The National Red List 2012 of Sri Lanka: Conservation Status of the Fauna and Flora. Weerakoon, D. K. and Wijesundara, S. (eds.). Ministry of Environment, Colombo, Sri Lanka. viii + 476 pp.

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