Cnemaspis indica GRAY, 1846

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Higher Taxa	Gekkonidae, Gekkota, Sauria, Squamata (lizards: geckos)
Subspecies
Common Names	E: Indian Day Gecko, Nilgiri Dwarf Gecko
Synonym	Cnemaspis indica GRAY 1846: 429 Gonatodes indicus — BOULENGER 1885: 64 Gonatodes indicus — BOETTGER 1892: 67 Cnemaspis indica — M. A. SMITH 1935: 68 Cnemaspis indica — KLUGE 1993 Cnemaspis (Cnemaspis) indica — RÖSLER 2000: 62 Cnemaspis indica — RÖSLER 2016
Distribution	India (Nilghiri Hills/Travancore, Kerala, Karnataka) Type locality: Madras Presidency, India
Reproduction	oviparous
Types	Lectotype BMNH 46.11.22.22b (male), 29.3 mm SVL, “Madras”.(designated by Manamendra-Arachchi et al. 2007), paralectotypes: BMNH 46.11.22.22a-c.
Diagnosis	Diagnosis: Cnemaspis indica differs from its peninsular Indian and Sri Lankan congeners by a combination of the following characters. Maximum SVL 30.4 mm; paired postmentals separated by a medial scale; each postmental bounded by 3 scales including medial scale; ventrals, 94; dorsal scales homogeneous, imbricate, carinate; spine-like tubercles absent on flank; ventrals smooth, imbricate; no preanal pores; 5 femoral pores on each side; subcaudals smooth, median series slightly enlarged; supralabials to angle of jaws, 7; subdigital lamellae on digit IV of pes, 14 [from Manamendra-Arachchi et a. 2007].
Comment
Etymology	Named after the type locality.
References	Boettger, O. 1892. Listen von Kriechtieren und Lurchen aus dem tropischen Asien und aus Papuasien. Ber. Tät. Offenb. Ver. Nat., Offenbach, 29 - 32: 65 - 164 - 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 Constable, JOHN D. 1949. Reptiles from the Indian Peninsula in the Museum of Comparative Zoology. Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool. Harvard 103: 59-160. - get paper here Das, Indraneil & Abhijit Das 2017. A Naturalist’s Guide to the Reptiles of India, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka. John Beaufoy Publishing Ltd., Oxford, 176 pp. Ganesh, S.R.; S. Bhupathy, P. Karthik, G. Babu Rao & S. Babu 2020. Catalogue of herpetological specimens from peninsular India at the Sálim Ali Centre for Ornithology & Natural History (SACON), India. JoTT 12 (9): 16123–16135 - get paper here Gray, J. E. 1846. Descriptions of some new species of Indian Lizards. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (1) 18: 429-430 - get paper here 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, T.S.N. 2010. The reptile fauna of India. B.R. Publishing, New Delhi, 332 pp. Palot, M.J. 2015. A checklist of reptiles of Kerala, India. Journal of Threatened Taxa 7(13): 8010–8022 - get paper here Rösler H 2016. Bemerkungen über einige Geckoarten der Zoologischen Staatssammlung München. Gekkota Suppl. 3: 1-94 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
External links	IUCN Red List National Center for Biotechnology Information Google images

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