''Cnemaspis kumpoli'',
commonly as Kumpol's rock gecko or the Trang Province gecko, is a
species of
gecko
Geckos are small, mostly carnivorous lizards that have a wide distribution, found on every continent except Antarctica. Belonging to the infraorder Gekkota, geckos are found in warm climates throughout the world. They range from .
Geckos ar ...
, a
lizard
Lizards are a widespread group of squamate reptiles, with over 7,000 species, ranging across all continents except Antarctica, as well as most oceanic island chains. The group is paraphyletic since it excludes the snakes and Amphisbaenia alt ...
in the
family Gekkonidae. The species is
endemic to the
Malay Peninsula
The Malay Peninsula (Malay: ''Semenanjung Tanah Melayu'') is a peninsula in Mainland Southeast Asia. The landmass runs approximately north–south, and at its terminus, it is the southernmost point of the Asian continental mainland. The area ...
.
Etymology
The
specific name Specific name may refer to:
* in Database management systems, a system-assigned name that is unique within a particular database
In taxonomy, either of these two meanings, each with its own set of rules:
* Specific name (botany), the two-part (bino ...
, ''kumpoli'', is in honor of Nai Kumpol Isarankura, who was Curator of Zoological Specimens at
Chulalongkorn University in
Bangkok,
Thailand.
[Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011). ''The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles''. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. . (''Cnemaspis kumpoli'', p. 148).]
Geographic range
''C. kumpoli'' is found in
West Malaysia (
Perlis,
Selangor) and southern
Thailand (
Satun,
Songkhla
Songkhla ( th, สงขลา, ), also known as Singgora or Singora (Pattani Malay: ซิงกอรอ), is a city (''thesaban nakhon'') in Songkhla Province of southern Thailand, near the border with Malaysia. Songkhla lies south of Ba ...
,
Trang Trang may refer to:
Places
* Trang province, Thailand
** Trang, Thailand, capital city of Trang province
** Trang Airport
** Trang railway station
**Trang River
*Trang, a sub-district of Mayo district, Pattani province, Thailand
*Trang (commune), ...
).
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Reproduction
''C. kumpoli'' is oviparous
Oviparous animals are animals that lay their eggs, with little or no other embryonic development within the mother. This is the reproductive method of most fish, amphibians, most reptiles, and all pterosaurs, dinosaurs (including birds), and ...
.[
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References
Further reading
* Grismer LL (2011). ''Lizards of Peninsular Malaysia, Singapore and their Adjacent Archipelagos''. Frankfurt am Main: Edition Chimaira. 728 pp. .
* Taylor EH (1963). "The Lizards of Thailand". ''Univ. Kansas Sci. Bull.'' 44: 687–1077. (''Cnemaspis kumpoli'', new species, pp. 746–749, Figure 12).
* Ulber T, Schäfer C (1986). "''Beobachtungen in Biotop von ''Cnemaspis kumpoli'' Taylor, 1963 mit einer Wiederbeschreibung der Art'' Observations on the biotope of ''Cnemaspis kumpoli'' Taylor, 1963 with a redescription of the species. ''Sauria'' 8 (4): 27–30. (in German).
kumpoli
Reptiles described in 1963
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