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Cyrtodactylus nepalensis (SCHLEICH & KÄSTLE, 1998)

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Higher TaxaGekkonidae, Gekkota, Sauria, Squamata (lizards: geckos)
Subspecies 
Common NamesE: Nepal bent-toed gecko, Nepalese rock gecko 
SynonymGonydactylus nepalensis SCHLEICH & KÄSTLE 1998
Cyrtopodion nepalensis — RÖSLER 2000: 75
Siwaligekko nepalensis — KHAN 2003
Cyrtodactylus nepalensis — MAHONY et al. 2009
Cyrtodactylus nepalensis — BHATTARAI et al. 2025: 414 
DistributionW Nepal (Doti, Kanchanpur / Dadeldhura border region)

Type locality: Sakaye, a small village with a new police station, close to Dipayal. N 29° 18' 37.6, E 80° 43' 10,6, elevation 745 m.  
Reproductionoviparous 
TypesHolotype: ZSM 854/2012 (originally SHHS 1998/33, VW D 94/14 (Fuhlrott-Museum Wuppertal), VW-D 94114, male (transferred to ZSM in 2012). 
DiagnosisDiagnosis: A rather large and slender angular-toed gecko (fig. 2-7) with a rather blunt snout, the distance from snout to eye being longer than the distance from eye to ear opening. The nostrils lie in a depression behind the rostral and are directed laterally. A longitudinal furrow on the forehead begins behind the nostrils and ends between the eyes. There is no ventrolateral fold discernible in the preserved and injected specimen, but it was distinct in the living animal. Sparse round and flat tubercles are irregularly distributed over the dorsal surface from the posterior head to the tail base. The back bears a bold pattern of dark wavy transverse cross bars. The upper head shows an irregular pattern of diffuse dark marks. Tail distinctly longer than snout-vent length and marked with transverse bands (from Schleich & Kästle 1998, including the following comparison and key).


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CommentAbundance: only known from its original description (Meiri et al. 2017). 
References
  • Bhattarai S., Gurung A., Lamichhane BR., Regmi R., Dhungana M., Kumpakha B. and Subedi N. 2020. Amphibians and Reptiles of Chure Range, Nepal. President Chure Terai-Madhesh Conservation Development Board and National Trust for Nature Conservation, Khumaltar, Lalitpur, Nepal
  • BHATTARAI, S., GAUTAM, B., NEUPANE, B. P., KHANDEKAR, A., THACKERAY, T., AGARWAL, I., ... & WRIGHT, W. 2025. A review of the genus Cyrtodactylus Gray 1827 (Squamata: Gekkonidae) of Nepal with descriptions of three new species. Zootaxa 5594(3): 401-451 - get paper here
  • Kästle , W., Rai, K. & Schleich, H.H. 2013. FIELD GUIDE to Amphibians and Reptiles of Nepal. ARCO-Nepal e.V., 625 pp. - get paper here
  • Khan, M.S. 2003. Questions of generic designation of angular-toed geckos of Pakistan with descriptions of three new genera (Reptilia: Gekkonidae). J. nat. hist. Wildl. 2 (2): 1-9
  • Mahony, S., M. Ahmed, M. K. Hossain, M. M. Kabir & M. K. Hasan 2009. Cyrtodactylus ayeyarwadyensis Bauer, 2003 (Reptilia: Gekkonidae) in Bangladesh with habitat details of new collection localities and a discussion of morphological variation. Salamandra 45 (4): 245–260 - get paper here
  • Meiri, Shai; Aaron M. Bauer, Allen Allison, Fernando Castro-Herrera, Laurent Chirio, Guarino Colli, Indraneil Das, Tiffany M. Doan, Frank Glaw, Lee L. Grismer, Marinus Hoogmoed, Fred Kraus, Matthew LeBreton, Danny Meirte, Zoltán T. Nagy, Cristiano d 2017. Extinct, obscure or imaginary: the lizard species with the smallest ranges. Diversity and Distributions - get paper here
  • Rösler, H. 2000. Kommentierte Liste der rezent, subrezent und fossil bekannten Geckotaxa (Reptilia: Gekkonomorpha). Gekkota 2: 28-153
  • Schleich, H. H. & W. KÄSTLE. 1998. Description of Gonydactylus nepalensis spec. nov. from the Inner Terai of far west Nepal (Reptilia: Sauria: Gekkonidae). In: Contributions to the herpetology of south-Asia (Nepal, India). pp: 269-280. H. H. Schleich & W. Kästle (Eds). Fuhlrott-Museum, Wuppertal.
 
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