Cyrtodactylus wakeorum

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Cyrtodactylus wakeorum
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Squamata
Family: Gekkonidae
Genus: Cyrtodactylus
Species:
C. wakeorum
Binomial name
Cyrtodactylus wakeorum
Bauer, 2003
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Cyrtodactylus wakeorum is a species of bent-toed gecko, a lizard in the family Gekkonidae. The species is endemic to Myanmar.

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Etymology

The specific name, wakeorum (genitive plural), is in honor of American herpetologists David Burton Wake and Marvalee Hendricks Wake, husband and wife. [2]

Taxonomy

C. wakeorum was discovered in 2001 in Myanmar's Rakhine Yoma Elephant Range and described in 2003. [3] [4]

Habitat

The preferred natural habitat of C. wakeorum is forest. [1]

Description

Small for its genus, C. wakeorum may attain a snout-to-vent length (SVL) of 6.4 cm (2.5 in). [4]

Reproduction

C. wakeorum is oviparous. [4]

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References

  1. 1 2 Wogan, G. & Lwin, K. (2021). "Cyrtodactylus wakeorum". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species . 2021: e.T178228A113521099. Retrieved 20 November 2021.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  2. ↑ Beolens B, Watkins M, Grayson M (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. ISBN   978-1-4214-0135-5. (Cyrtodactylus wakeorum, p. 278).
  3. ↑ Bauer AM (2003). "Descriptions of seven new Cyrtodactylus (Squamata: Gekkonidae) with a key to the species of Myanmar (Burma)". Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences. 54 (25): 463–498. S2CID   129933095. (Cyrtodactylus wakeorum, new species, pp. 479–482, Figures 10–11).
  4. 1 2 3 Cyrtodactylus wakeorum at the Reptarium.cz Reptile Database. Accessed 12 January 2020.


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