Cnemaspis dickersonae

Cnemaspis dickersonae, also known commonly as Dickerson's forest gecko, Dickerson's gecko, or the four-lined forest gecko, is a species of gecko endemic to eastern Africa.[1]

Cnemaspis dickersonae
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Squamata
Family: Gekkonidae
Genus: Cnemaspis
Species:
C. dickersonae
Binomial name
Cnemaspis dickersonae
(Schmidt, 1919)
Synonyms[1]
  • Gonatodes dickersoni
    Schmidt, 1919
  • Paragonatodes dickersoni
    — Noble, 1921
  • Cnemaspis dickersoni
    — Loveridge, 1936
  • Cnemaspis dickersonae
    — Michels & Bauer, 2004

Etymology

The specific name, dickersonae, is in honor of American herpetologist Mary Cynthia Dickerson.[2]

References
  1. "Cnemaspis dickersonae ". The Reptile Database. Retrieved 2017-11-11.
  2. 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. (Cnemaspis dickersonae, p. 72).

Further reading
  • Schmidt KP (1919). "Contributions to the Herpetology of the Belgian Congo Based on the Collection of the American Museum Congo Expedition, 1909–1915. Part I. Turtles, Crocodiles, Lizards, and Chameleons". Bull. American Mus. Nat. Hist. 39 (2): 385–624. (Gonatodes dickersoni, new species, p. 436).


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