The Nilgiri day gecko (Cnemaspis nilagirica) is a species of gecko endemic to southern India.[2] It was formerly known only from a single female specimen collected in 1885 that was misidentified as a variety of the Kandyan day gecko (C. kandiana var. tropidogaster ) by George Albert Boulenger, who used it as a syntype for his description of the variety. After a living population was not reported for over 130 years, a live male was collected in 2019, marking the first collection of a male specimen of C. nilagirica.[3]
| Nilgiri day gecko | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Order: | Squamata |
| Family: | Gekkonidae |
| Genus: | Cnemaspis |
| Species: | C. nilagirica
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| Binomial name | |
| Cnemaspis nilagirica Manamendra-Arachchi, Batuwita & Pethiyagoda, 2007
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References
edit- ^ Ganesh, S.R. 2021. Cnemaspis nilagirica. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2021: e.T194097A158443820. https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/194097/158443820. Downloaded on 18 October 2021.
- ^ "Cnemaspis nilagirica". The Reptile Database. Retrieved 2017-11-11.
- ^ Campbell, Patrick D.; Palot, Muhamed Jafer; Umesh, Pavukandy; Johny, Alex; Cyriac, Vivek Philip (2019-04-16). "Rediscovery of Cnemaspis nilagirica Manamendra-Arachchi, Batuwita and Pethiyagoda, 2007 (Squamata: Gekkonidae) from Kerala, India with notes on morphology and distribution". Zootaxa. 4586 (1): 98–108. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4586.1.4. ISSN 1175-5334. PMID 31716143.