Dring's rock gecko

Dring's rock gecko (Cnemaspis dringi ) is a species of gecko, a lizard in the family Gekkonidae. The species is endemic to Borneo.[1]

Dring's rock gecko
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Squamata
Family: Gekkonidae
Genus: Cnemaspis
Species:
C. dringi
Binomial name
Cnemaspis dringi
Das & Bauer, 1998

Etymology

The specific name, dringi, is in honor of British herpetologist Julian Christopher Mark Dring (born 1951).[2]

References

  1. "Cnemaspis dringi ". The Reptile Database. Retrieved 2017-11-11.
  2. Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. ISBN 978-1-4214-0135-5. (Cnemaspis dringi, p. 75).

Further reading

  • Das I, Bauer AM (1998). "Systematics and biogeography of Bornean geckos of the genus Cnemaspis Strauch, 1887 (Sauria: Geckonidae), with the description of a new species". Raffles Bull. Zool. 46 (1): 11–28. (Cnemaspis dringi, new species).


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