Cnemaspis flaviventralis SAYYED, PYRON & DAHANUKAR, 2016

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Higher Taxa	Gekkonidae, Gekkota, Sauria, Squamata (lizards: geckos)
Subspecies
Common Names	E: Yellow-bellied Day Gecko
Synonym	Cnemaspis flaviventralis SAYYED, PYRON & DAHANUKAR 2016 Cnemaspis flaviventralis — KHANDEKAR et al. 2024: 31
Distribution	India (Maharashtra) Type locality: India, Maharashtra, Sinhudurg District, Amboli (15.960° N, 73.999° E, 735 m elevation).
Reproduction	oviparous (not imputed, fide Zimin et al. 2022)
Types	Holotype: BNHS 2442, adult male; paratypes: BNHS
Diagnosis	Diagnosis (n=19). A small-sized Cnemaspis, snout to vent length less than 39 mm (n=21). Dorsal pholidosis heterogeneous; weakly keeled, granular scales intermixed with large, weakly keeled, irregularly arranged tubercles, enlarged tubercles gradually increasing in size towards flank, tubercles in lowest row distinctly long spine-like; 14– 16 rows of dorsal tubercles at midbody, 19–24 paravertebral tubercles between forelimb and hindlimb insertions; gular scales granular, smooth, circular, juxtaposed and flattened; ventral scales subequal from chest to vent, smooth, subcircular, subimbricate with rounded end; 30–34 scales across belly at midbody, 125–136 longitudinal scales from mental to cloaca; subdigital scansors smooth, mostly entire, unnotched; 11–13 (rarely 14, n=1) lamellae under digit I of manus and 10–12 lamellae under digit I of pes, 14–17 lamellae under digit Iv of manus and 17–20 lamellae under digit Iv of pes; males with two or three femoral pores on each thigh separated medially by 25–28 poreless scales; tail dorsum with strongly keeled, granular scales, similar in size and shape to granular scales on midbody dorsum, gradually becoming larger, flattened, imbricate posteriorly, intermixed with enlarged, strongly keeled, pointed, conical tubercles forming whorls; median row of subcaudals Type B. Dorsal colouration brown with indistinct vertebral chevrons, indistinct dark ocellus on neck; not strongly sexually dichromatic (Fig. 9E, F). (Khandekar et al. 2024) Unfortunately we had to temporarily remove additional information as this was scraped by multiple AI companies who sell that data. However, these details, e.g. detailed descriptions (about less than half a page) are available for collaborators and contributors. Please contact us if you need any of this material.
Comment	Diagnosis: not copyable from original description.
Etymology	Named after Latin “flavus” = yellow, and ventralis = belly, referring to the color of the species’ belly.
References	KHANDEKAR, A., GAIKWAD, S. M., THACKERAY, T., GANGALMALE, S., & AGARWAL, I. 2024. A preliminary taxonomic revision of the girii clade of South Asian Cnemaspis Strauch, 1887 (Squamata: Gekkonidae) with the description of four new species from southern Maharashtra, India. Zootaxa 5429 (1): 1-114 - get paper here KHANDEKAR, AKSHAY; TEJAS THACKERAY & ISHAN AGARWAL 2019. Two more new species of Cnemaspis Strauch, 1887 (Squamata: Gekkonidae) from the northern Western Ghats, Maharashtra, India. Zootaxa 4656 (1): 043–070 - get paper here Sayyed A, Pyron RA, Dileepkumar R. 2018. Four new species of the genus Cnemaspis Strauch, (Sauria: Gekkonidae) from the northern Western Ghats, India. Amphibian & Reptile Conservation 12(2) [General Section]: 1–29 (e157) - get paper here Sayyed, A., Cyriac, V. P., Pardeshi, A., & Sulakhe, S. 2021. Dwarfs of the fortress: A new cryptic species of dwarf gecko of the genus Cnemaspis Strauch, 1887 (Squamata, Gekkonidae) from Rajgad fort in the northern Western Ghats of Maharashtra, India. Evolutionary Systematics, 5: 25 - get paper here Sayyed, Amit 2019. Natural history and ecology of the Yellow-bellied Day Gecko (Cnemaspis flaviventralis) in Maharashtra, India. IRCF 26 (1): 62–64 - get paper here Sayyed, Amit; Robert Alexander Pyron & Neelesh Dahanukar 2016. Cnemaspis flaviventralis, a new species of gecko (Squamata: Gekkonidae) from the Western Ghats of Maharashtra, India. Journal of Threatened Taxa 8 (14): 9619-9629 - get paper here Zimin, A., Zimin, S. V., Shine, R., Avila, L., Bauer, A., Böhm, M., Brown, R., Barki, G., de Oliveira Caetano, G. H., Castro Herrera, F., Chapple, D. G., Chirio, L., Colli, G. R., Doan, T. M., Glaw, F., Grismer, L. L., Itescu, Y., Kraus, F., LeBreton 2022. A global analysis of viviparity in squamates highlights its prevalence in cold climates. Global Ecology and Biogeography, 00, 1–16 - get paper here
External links	IUCN Red List National Center for Biotechnology Information Google images

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