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Cyrtodactylus jeyporensis (Patinghe Indian Gecko)

Synonyms: Geckoella jeyporensis; Gymnodactylus jeyporensis

Wikipedia Abstract

Jeypore Indian gecko (Geckoella jeyporensis), also known as the Jeypore ground gecko or the Patinghe Indian gecko, is a critically endangered species of gecko found in India, which was until recently considered extinct. Described from a single specimen in 1877, it was rediscovered in 2010 in the Eastern Ghats of Odisha state, India.
View Wikipedia Record: Cyrtodactylus jeyporensis

Endangered Species

Status: Endangered
View IUCN Record: Cyrtodactylus jeyporensis

Attributes

Habitat Substrate [1]  Arboreal, Saxicolous

Ecoregions

Name Countries Ecozone Biome Species Report Climate Land
Use
South Western Ghats moist deciduous forests India Indo-Malayan Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests

Biodiversity Hotspots

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

Range Map

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Meiri, 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