Cyrtodactylus gordongekkoi
Cyrtodactylus gordongekkoi is a species of gecko, a lizard in the family Gekkonidae. The species is endemic to Lombok in Indonesia.[1][2]
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Order: | Squamata |
| Family: | Gekkonidae |
| Genus: | Cyrtodactylus |
| Species: | C. gordongekkoi |
| Binomial name | |
| Cyrtodactylus gordongekkoi (Das, 1994) | |
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Etymology
The specific name, gordongekkoi, jokingly refers to Gordon Gekko, a character in the film Wall Street.[3]
References
- Richman, N. & Böhm, M. (2004). "Cyrtodactylus gordongekkoi". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2004: e.T178636A7585694. Retrieved 26 November 2020.
- Cyrtodactylus gordongekkoi at the Reptarium.cz Reptile Database. Accessed 22 March 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 gordongekkoi, p. 104).
Further reading
- Biswas, Sayatan (2007). "Assignment of currently misplaced Cnemaspis gordongekkoi Das, 1993 (Reptilia: Gekkonidae) to Cyrtodactylus Gray, 1827". Russian Journal of Herpetology 14 (1): 15-20. (Cyrtodactylus gordongekkoi, new combination).
- Das I (1994). "Cnemaspis gordongekkoi, a new gecko from Lombok, Indonesia, and the biogeography of oriental species of Cnemaspis (Squamata: Sauria: Gekkonidae)". Hamadryad 18: 1-9. (Cnemaspis gordongekkoi, new species).
- Rösler H (2000). "Kommentierte Liste der rezent, subrezent und fossil bekannten Geckotaxa (Reptilia: Gekkonomorpha)". Gekkota 2: 28–153. (Cnemaspis gordongekkoi, p. 62). (in German).
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