Cnemaspis littoralis (JERDON, 1853)

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Higher Taxa	Gekkonidae, Gekkota, Sauria, Squamata (lizards: geckos)
Subspecies
Common Names	E: Coastal Day Gecko
Synonym	Gymnodactylus littoralis JERDON 1853: 469 Gymnodactylus planipes BEDDOME 1871: 403 Gymnodactylus planiceps — GÜNTHER 1875 (in error) Gonatodes littoralis — BOULENGER 1885: 71 Cnemaspis littoralis — SMITH 1935: 76 Cnemaspis littoralis — WERMUTH 1965: 15 Cnemaspis littoralis — KLUGE 1993 Cnemaspis (Cnemaspis) littoralis — RÖSLER 2000: 63 Cnemaspis littoralis — MURTHY et al. 2019
Distribution	India, Nilambur, Nellakota, Malabar, Nilghiri Hills Type locality: coast of Malabar. Neotype locality: Chaliyam coast, 13 km from Calicut City, Kozhikode District, Kerala, India (11.16095° N, 75.80838° E)
Reproduction	oviparous
Types	Neotype: ZSI/WGRC/IR/V/2377, male, designated by Cyriac & Umesh (2013).
Diagnosis	Diagnosis: Cnemaspis littoralis differs from all other Indian Cnemaspis by the following characters. Maximum SVL, 31.6 mm; overall slender form; few scattered spine like tubercles on flanks; dorsal scales of body and tail homogenous; 15–18 femoral pores in males; subcaudals in median row, enlarged and hexagonal; supralabials to angle of jaw, 9–10; infralabials, 7–9; basal 4–6 lamellae on digits enlarged; a distinct black spot on the nape [from cyriac & Umesh 2013]
Comment
References	Beddome, R.H. 1871. Descriptions of new reptiles from the Madras Presidency. Madras Monthly J. Med. Sci., 4: 401-404 [Reprint: J. Soc. Bibliogr. Nat. Sci., London, 1 (10): 324-326, 1940] - get paper here Boulenger, G.A. 1885. Catalogue of the lizards in the British Museum (Nat. Hist.) I. Geckonidae, Eublepharidae, Uroplatidae, Pygopodidae, Agamidae. London: 450 pp. - get paper here Cyriac, V. P. & P. K. Umesh 2013. Current status of Cnemaspis littoralis (Jerdon, 1853) (Sauria: Gekkonidae) with designation of a neotype. Taprobanica 5 (1): 36-43 - get paper here Inger R F; Marx H; Koshy M 1984. An undescribed species of gekkonid lizard (Cnemaspis) from India with comments on the status of C. tropidogaster. Herpetologica 40 (2): 149-154 - get paper here Inger, Robert F.;Shaffer, H. Bradley;Koshy, Mammen;Bakde, Ramesh 1984. A report on a collection of amphibians and reptiles from the Ponmudi, Kerala, South India. J. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc. 81 (3): 551-570 - get paper here Jerdon, T.C. 1853. Catalogue of the Reptiles inhabiting the Peninsula of India. Part 1. J. Asiat. Soc. Bengal xxii [1854]: 462-479 (1853 fide Bauer et al. 2008) - get paper here M U, NEETHU & JOYCE JOSE. 2022. CNEMASPIS LITTORALIS (Coastal Day Gecko). DIET and FEEDING BEHAVIOR. Herpetological Review 53 (2): 320–321. Manamendra-Arachchi, Kelum; Batuwita, Sudesh & Pethiyagoda, Rohan 2007. A taxonomic revision of the Sri Lankan day-geckos (Reptilia: Gekkonidae: Cnemaspis), with description of new species from Sri Lanka and southern India. Zeylanica 7 (1): 9-122 Murthy, B. H. Channakeshava; A. Nitesh, Shruti Sengupta & P. Deepak 2019. A New Species of Day Gecko of the genus Cnemaspis Strauch, 1887 (Squamata : Gekkonidae) from the Nilgiri Hills, Tamil Nadu, India. Rec. Zool Surv. India 119 (3) - get paper here Palot, M.J. 2015. A checklist of reptiles of Kerala, India. Journal of Threatened Taxa 7(13): 8010–8022 - get paper here Rösler, H. 2000. Kommentierte Liste der rezent, subrezent und fossil bekannten Geckotaxa (Reptilia: Gekkonomorpha). Gekkota 2: 28-153 Smith, M.A. 1935. The fauna of British India, including Ceylon and Burma. Reptiles and Amphibia, Vol. II. Sauria. Taylor and Francis, London, 440 pp. Venugopal, P.D. 2010. An updated and annotated list of Indian lizards (Reptilia: Sauria) based on a review of distribution records and checklists of Indian reptiles. Journal of Threatened Taxa 2 (3): 725-738. - get paper here
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