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Cnemaspis is a genus

Genus

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of diurnal

Diurnal animal

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gecko

Gecko

Geckos are lizards belonging to the infraorder Gekkota, found in warm climates throughout the world. They range from 1.6 cm to 60 cm....

found in Asia

Asia

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. With around 75 species it is one of the most diverse genera of geckos or even lizard

Lizard

Lizards are a widespread group of squamate reptiles, with nearly 3800 species, ranging across all continents except Antarctica as well as most oceanic island chains...

Description

Members in this genus have slender clawed digits which are cylindrical or depressed at the base (rarely dilated); the distal phalanges are compressed, forming an angle with the basal portion of the digits, the lower surface of which has a row of plates. Body more or less depressed, granular or tubercular above. Tail not compressed. Pupil circular; eyelid distinct all round the eye. Males with or without pre-anal or femoral pores.

Classification of genus Cnemaspis

Cnemaspis barbouri
Cnemaspis baueri
Cnemaspis dickersoni, Dickerson's Gecko
Cnemaspis dilepis, Two-scaled Gecko
Cnemaspis dringi
Cnemaspis flavolineata, Yellow-Striped Rock Gecko
Cnemaspis gordongekkoi
Cnemaspis kendallii, Kendall's Gecko
Cnemaspis koehleri, Koehler's Gecko
Cnemaspis kumarasinghei
Cnemaspis modiglianii
Cnemaspis molligodai
Cnemaspis neangthyi
Cnemaspis occidentalis, Western Gecko
Cnemaspis quattuorseriata, Sternfeld's Gecko
Cnemaspis retigalensis
Cnemaspis samanalensis
Cnemaspis scalpensis, Jerdon’s Day Gecko

the Africa
Africa
Africa is the world's second largest and second most populous continent, after Asia. At about 30.2 million km² including adjacent islands, it covers 6% of the Earth's total surface area and 20.4% of the total land area...

group

Cnemaspis africana
Cnemaspis africana
Cnemaspis africana is a species of gecko of the sub-family of gekkoninae.- References :* Werner, F. 1896 Über einige Reptilien aus Usambara . Verhandlungen der Kaiserlich-Königlichen Zoologisch-Botanischen Gesellschaft in Wien, 45 [1895]:190-194.* Rösler, H. 2000 Kommentierte Liste der rezent,...

, African Gecko, Tanzania
Cnemaspis alantika, Mt.Alantika Day Gecko, Cameroon
Cnemaspis gigas, Perret's Nigeria Gecko
Cnemaspis petrodroma , Nigeria Crag Gecko
Cnemaspis spinicollis Müller, 1907, Cameroon Collared Gecko
Cnemaspis uzungwae, Tanzania Gecko

the Indian Subcontinent
Indian subcontinent
The Indian subcontinent, also Indian Subcontinent, Indo-Pak Subcontinent or South Asian Subcontinent is a region of the Asian continent on the Indian tectonic plate from the Hindu Kush or Hindu Koh, Himalayas and including the Kuen Lun and Karakoram ranges, forming a land mass which extends...

and Sri Lanka
Sri Lanka
Sri Lanka, officially the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka is a country off the southern coast of the Indian subcontinent. Known until 1972 as Ceylon , Sri Lanka is an island surrounded by the Indian Ocean, the Gulf of Mannar and the Palk Strait, and lies in the vicinity of India and the...

group

Cnemaspis alwisi Mendis Wickramasinghe & Munindradasa, 2007
Cnemaspis anaikattiensis Mukherjee, Bhupathy & Nixon, 2005
Cnemaspis assamensis
Cnemaspis assamensis
Cnemaspis assamensis is a species of gecko found in Assam, India.-References:* Das, I. & S. Sengupta 2000 A new species of Cnemaspis from Assam, northeastern India. J. South Asian Nat. Hist, 5: 17-23....
Cnemaspis beddomei
Cnemaspis beddomei
Beddome's day gecko Cnemaspis beddomei is a species of gecko found in the Western Ghats. Named after Richard Henry Beddome, 1830-1911, British army officer and botanist.-Distribution:Type locality: Tinnevelly and Travancore Hills...

, Beddome's Gecko
Cnemaspis boiei
Cnemaspis boiei
Boie's day gecko Cnemaspis boiei is a species of gecko found in India.Named after Friedrich Boie or his brother Heinrich Boie , German naturalists.-References:...

, Boie's Gecko
Cnemaspis goaensis
Cnemaspis goaensis
The Goan Day Gecko Cnemaspis goaensis is a species of gecko found in Goa, India.-References:* Sharma, R. C. 1976 Records of the reptiles of Goa. Records of the Zoological Survey of India, 71 : 149-167....

, Goan Day Gecko
Cnemaspis heteropholis
Cnemaspis heteropholis
Cnemaspis heteropholis is a species of gecko found in India .-References:* Bauer, A.M. 2002 Two new species of Cnemaspis from Gund, Uttara Kannada, India. Mitt. Hamburg. Zool. Mus. Inst. 99: 155-167...
Cnemaspis indica
Cnemaspis indica
Indian Day Gecko Cnemaspis indica is a species of gecko found in India .-References:* Boulenger, G.A. 1885 Catalogue of the Lizards in the British Museum I. Geckonidae, Eublepharidae, Uroplatidae, Pygopodidae, Agamidae. London: 450 pp.* Gray, J. E. 1846 Descriptions of some new species of Indian...

, Nilgiri Hills Gecko
Cnemaspis indraneildasii
Cnemaspis indraneildasii
Cnemaspis indraneildasii is a species of gecko found in India .It is named after the Indian herpetologist Indraneil Das.-References:...
Cnemaspis jerdonii
Cnemaspis jerdonii
Jerdon's Day Gecko Cnemaspis jerdonii is a species of gecko found in India and Sri Lanka.-Description:In habit similar to Cnemaspis kandianus and gracilis. Digits not dilated, but with rather large plates under the basal part, the most distal of these plates being the largest and longitudinally...

, Jerdon's Indian Gecko
- Cnemaspis jerdonii jerdonii
- Cnemaspis jerdonii scalpensis
Cnemaspis kandiana
Cnemaspis kandiana
Kandy Day Gecko, Kandy Rock Gecko Cnemaspis kandiana is a species of diurnal gecko found in Sri Lanka, southern India, Andaman Islands, Indonesia , and southern Thailand.-Description:...

(Kelaart, 1852), Kandyan Day Gecko, (Endemic to Sri Lanka.)
Cnemaspis kolhapurensis
Cnemaspis kolhapurensis
Cnemaspis kolhapurensis is a species of gecko described from the hills in Kolhapur in Maharashtra, India....
Cnemaspis littoralis
Cnemaspis littoralis
Coastal Day Gecko Cnemaspis littoralis is a species of gecko found in the Western Ghats of India.-Description:Habit very slender. Head long; snout pointed, much longer than the distance between the eye and the ear-opening, 1.6 to 1.75 times diameter of orbit; forehead very slightly concave; ear...

, Coastal Day Gecko
Cnemaspis nairi
Cnemaspis nairi
Ponmudi Day Gecko Cnemaspis nairi is a species of gecko found in India .-References:* Inger R F; Marx H; Koshy M 1984 An undescribed species of gekkonid lizard from India with comments on the status of C. tropidogaster. Herpetologica 40 : 149-154* Rösler, H...

, Ponmudi Day Gecko
Cnemaspis ornata
Cnemaspis ornata
Ornate Day Gecko Cnemaspis ornata is a species of gecko found in southern India .Type locality: South Tinnevelly Hills.-References:...

, Ornate Day Gecko
Cnemaspis otai
Cnemaspis otai
Cnemaspis otai is a species of gecko found in SE India.Type locality: Vellore Fort, North Arcot District, Tamil Nadu State.Named after Hidetoshi Ota, Japanese herpetologist.-References:...
Cnemaspis podihuna, Deraniyagala's Gecko
Cnemaspis ranwellai
Cnemaspis ranwellai
Cnemaspis ranwellai is a species of gecko from Sri Lanka recently discovered by L. J. M. Wickramasinghe....

, Ranwella's Day Gecko
Cnemaspis sisparensis
Cnemaspis sisparensis
Sispara Day Gecko Cnemaspis sisparensis is a species of gecko found in the Nilgiri Hills of India.-Description:Closely allied to Cnemaspis wynadensis, but the digits much more elongate. 3 femoral pores on each side. Dorsal tubercles homogeneous...

Theobald, 1876, Theobald's Gecko
Cnemaspis tropidogaster
Cnemaspis tropidogaster
Rough-bellied Day Gecko Cnemaspis tropidogaster is a species of day gecko found in the Western Ghats of India and Sri Lanka.Distribution in the southern Western Ghats is patchy and relatively uncommon. Active during the day. Distinct head, elongated snout, keeled ventral scales; dark brown dorsal...

Boulenger, 1885, Marked Belly Gecko
Cnemaspis wynadensis
Cnemaspis wynadensis
Wynaad Day Gecko Cnemaspis wynadensis is a species of gecko found in Wayanad, India.-Description:Habit of C. indicus. The basal part of the digits beneath with very small scales, the two distal scales only being a little enlarged and plate-like. Head covered with very small granules, which are...

, Wynad Day Gecko
Cnemaspis yercaudensis
Cnemaspis yercaudensis
Cnemaspis yercaudensis is a species of gecko found in the Shevaroy hills of southern India.Type locality: Yercaud Town , in the Shevaroyan Range, Salem District, Tamil Nadu, SW India 1515 m asl-References:...

the Sundaland
Sundaland
Sundaland is a biogeographical region of Southeastern Asia which encompasses the areas of the Asian continental shelf that was exposed during the last ice age. It included the Malay Peninsula on the Asian mainland, as well as the large islands of Borneo, Java, and Sumatra and their surrounding...

group

Cnemaspis affinis, Stoliczka's Gecko
Cnemaspis argus Dring, 1979, Dring's Gecko
Cnemaspis aurantiacopes Grismer & Ngo, 2007
Cnemaspis baueri 2003, Johor, West Malaysia.
Cnemaspis bayuensis Grismer , Grismer, Wood & Chan 2008
Cnemaspis biocellata 2008, Malaysia, Southern Thailand
Cnemaspis boulengeri 1887, Vietnam
Cnemaspis chanardi 2010
Cnemaspis chanthaburiensis 1998, Chanthaburi Rock Gecko - Khao Soi Dao Wildlife Sanctuary, Chanthaburi Province, Khao Khiew Wildlife Sanctuary, Chon Buri Province, Thailand; Cardamom Mountains, Cambodia
Cnemaspis caudanivea Grismer & Ngo, 2007
Cnemaspis dringi 1998 Sarawak, East Malaysia, Borneo
Cnemaspis dezwaani 2005
Cnemaspis flavigaster 2008 Selangor, Peninsular Malaysia
Cnemaspis flavolineata (Nicholls, 1949)
Cnemaspis huaseesom 2010
Cnemaspis jacobsoni 2005
Cnemaspis kamolnorranathi 2010
Cnemaspis karsticola Grismer , Grismer, Wood & Chan 2008
Cnemaspis kendallii Malaysia, Borneo, Pahang, West Malaysia; Riao Archipelago, Indonesia; Bukit Timah, Singapore
Cnemaspis kumpoli Thailand, Malaysia peninsular
Cnemaspis limi 2003 Pahang, West Malaysia
Cnemaspis mcguirei Grismer , Grismer, Wood & Chan 2008, McGuire's Rock Gecko, Bukit Larut, Perak, Malaysia
Cnemaspis modiglianii 2005
Cnemaspis narathiwatenisis 2010
Cnemaspis nigridia Borneo Black Gecko, Sarawak, East Malaysia Borneo
Cnemaspis niyomwanae 2010
Cnemaspis nuicamensis Grismer & Ngo, 2007
Cnemaspis pemanggilensis 2006 Johor, West Malaysia
Cnemaspis phuketensis , 2004, Phuket Day Gecko
Cnemaspis punctatonuchalis 2010
Cnemaspis roticanai Grismer & Onn, 2010
Cnemaspis siamensis Siamese Gecko, peninsular Thailand
Cnemaspis tucdupensis , 2007
Cnemaspis timoriensis 1836, Timor Gecko
Cnemaspis vandeventeri 2010
Cnemaspis whittenorum 2005

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