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Cyrtodactylus fraenatus (Sri Lanka Bow-fingered Gecko)

Synonyms: Gymnodactylus fraenatus

Wikipedia Abstract

Bridled Bent-toed Gecko, Cyrtodactylus fraenatus, also known as Sri Lanka Bent-toed Gecko, is a species of gecko endemic to island of Sri Lanka.
View Wikipedia Record: Cyrtodactylus fraenatus

Endangered Species

Status: Endangered
View IUCN Record: Cyrtodactylus fraenatus

Attributes

Egg Length [1]  0.669 inches (17 mm)
Egg Width [1]  0.591 inches (15 mm)
Reproductive Mode [2]  Oviparous
Habitat Substrate [2]  Arboreal, Saxicolous

Ecoregions

Name Countries Ecozone Biome Species Report Climate Land
Use
Sri Lanka montane rain forests Sri Lanka Indo-Malayan Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests

Biodiversity Hotspots

Name Location Endemic Species Website
Western Ghats and Sri Lanka India, Sri Lanka Yes

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
1Nathan P. Myhrvold, Elita Baldridge, Benjamin Chan, Dhileep Sivam, Daniel L. Freeman, and S. K. Morgan Ernest. 2015. An amniote life-history database to perform comparative analyses with birds, mammals, and reptiles. Ecology 96:3109
2Meiri, Shai (2019), Data from: Traits of lizards of the world: variation around a successful evolutionary design, Dryad, Dataset, https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.f6t39kj
Ecoregions provided by World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF). WildFinder: Online database of species distributions, ver. 01.06 Wildfinder Database
Biodiversity Hotspots provided by Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund
Abstract provided by DBpedia licensed under a Creative Commons License
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0