Cyrtodactylus adleri DAS, 1997

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Higher Taxa	Gekkonidae, Gekkota, Sauria, Squamata (lizards: geckos)
Subspecies
Common Names	Alder’s bow-fingered gecko
Synonym	Cyrtodactylus adleri DAS 1997 Cyrtodactylus (Cyrtodactylus) adleri — RÖSLER 2000: 64 Cyrtodactylus adleri — LIVIGNI 2013: 262
Distribution	Nicobar Island (India) Type locality: ‘1 km E Galathea River mouth, Great Nicobar Island (= Sambelong), India’; ‘Galathea National Park, Great Nicobar Island, India’ ‘Shompen Hut, Great Nicobar Island, India’ ‘circa two km E Kopen Heat (= Dakoank), Great Nicobar Island, India’ ‘Magar Nullah, 3 km W Campbell Bay, Great Nicobar, India’ ‘Great Nicobar, India’. All localities lie around coordinates 06º 48’N; 93º 51’E.
Reproduction	oviparous
Types	Holotype: ZSI 25057, ZSI 25058 (paratype), ZSI 25060 (paratype), ZSI 25061 (paratype), ZSI 23398 ZSI 25117 (paratype)
Diagnosis
Comment
Etymology	Named after Dr. Kraig Kerr Adler (b. 1940) former Professor of Biology at Cornell University. He was co-founder and Chairman of the Ohio Herpetological Society (later the Society for the Study of Amphibians and Reptiles).
References	Beolens, Bo; Michael Watkins, and Michael Grayson 2011. The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, USA - get paper here Das, I. 1997. A new species of Cyrtodactylus from the Nicobar Island, India. Journal of Herpetology 31 (3): 375-382. - get paper here LiVigni, F. (ed.) 2013. A Life for Reptiles and Amphibians, Volume 1. Chimaira, Frankfurt, 495 pp. - get paper here Rösler, H. 2000. Kommentierte Liste der rezent, subrezent und fossil bekannten Geckotaxa (Reptilia: Gekkonomorpha). Gekkota 2: 28-153 Rösler, H. & Glaw, F. 2008. A new species of Cyrtodactylus Gray, 1827 (Squamata: Gekkonidae) from Malaysia including a literature survey of mensural and meristic data in the genus. Zootaxa 1729: 8–22 - get paper here 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 - Cyrtodactylus adleri - Least Concern, LC Google images

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