Fine Art

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Superphylum: Deuterostomia
Phylum: Chordata
Subphylum: Vertebrata
Infraphylum: Gnathostomata
Superclassis: Tetrapoda
Cladus: Reptiliomorpha
Cladus: Amniota
Classis: Reptilia
Cladus: Eureptilia
Cladus: Romeriida
Subclassis: Diapsida
Cladus: Sauria
Infraclassis: Lepidosauromorpha
Superordo: Lepidosauria
Ordo: Squamata
Subordo: Gekkota
Infraordo: Gekkomorpha
Superfamilia: Gekkonoidea

Familia: Gekkonidae
Subfamilia: Gekkoninae
Genus: Cnemaspis
Species: Cnemaspis dickersonae
Name

Cnemaspis dickersonae (Schmidt, 1919) (emended from dickersoni)

Type locality: Medje, Ituri, Zaire.
Synonyms

Gonatodes dickersoni Schmidt, 1919
Paragonatodes dickersoni Noble, 1921

Distribution

Ethiopia, C/E Democratic Republic of the Congo, Tanzania, S Sudan, Uganda, Kenya, Rwanda

References

Schmidt, K.P. 1919. Contributions to the Herpetology of the Belgian Congo based on the Collection of the American Congo Expedition, 1909-1915. Part I: turtles, crocodiles, lizards, and chamaeleons. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 39(2): 385–624.
Cnemaspis dickersoni at the New Reptile Database[dead link]

Vernacular names
English: Dickerson's Gecko


Cnemaspis dickersonae, also known commonly as Dickerson's forest gecko, Dickerson's gecko, or the four-lined forest gecko, is a species of gecko endemic to eastern Africa.[1]
Etymology

The specific name, dickersonae, is in honor of American herpetologist Mary Cynthia Dickerson.[2]
References

"Cnemaspis dickersonae ". The Reptile Database. Retrieved 2017-11-11.

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 dickersonae, p. 72).

Further reading

Schmidt KP (1919). "Contributions to the Herpetology of the Belgian Congo Based on the Collection of the American Museum Congo Expedition, 1909–1915. Part I. Turtles, Crocodiles, Lizards, and Chameleons". Bull. American Mus. Nat. Hist. 39 (2): 385–624. (Gonatodes dickersoni, new species, p. 436).

Biology Encyclopedia

Reptiles Images

Retrieved from "http://en.wikipedia.org/"
All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License

Home - Hellenica World