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Army’s Bent Toed Gecko ( Crytodactylus exercitus)

February 22, 2022
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In news- Recently, a team of herpetologists have recorded a new species of bent-toed gecko from a wooded part of the Umroi Military Station in Meghalaya.

About Army’s Bent Toed Gecko-

  • Its scientific name is Crytodactylus exercitus and its English name is Indian Army’s bent-toed gecko (Exercitus in Latin means army). 
  • The name was given to honour the Army for its services to the country. 
  • The  team also recorded another new bent-toed gecko, the Cyrtodactylus siahaensis named after Mizoram’s Siaha district where it was found.
  • Most of these lizard specialists and a few others had in a separate study recorded the Cyrtodactylus lungleiensis, a new species of bent-toed gecko named after Mizoram’s Lunglei town.
  • The genus Cyrtodactylus is represented by about 320 species worldwide and is the third most speciose vertebrate genus in the world. 
  • The members of the genus range from South Asia to Melanesia with high diversity in South Asia.
  • India is now home to 40 species of the bent-toed gecko with the northeast accounting for 16 of them.

About Geckos-

  • Geckos are small, mostly carnivorous reptiles and are found on all the continents except Antarctica. 
  • Belonging to the infraorder Gekkota, geckos are found in warm climates throughout the world. 
  • They range from 1.6 to 60 centimeters.

Other Gecko species of Cyrtodactylus family-

  • So far researchers have found the Guwahati bent-toed gecko (Cyrtodactylus guwahatiensis, named after the city) near a small hillock in the urban sprawl of Guwahati city.
  • The Kaziranga bent-toed gecko, the Jaintia bent-toed gecko and the Nagaland bent-toed gecko have been discovered from Assam’s Kaziranga National Park, the Jaintia hills of Meghalaya and Khonoma village in Nagaland, respectively.
  • The Abhayapuri bent-toed gecko is currently found only in the vicinity of Abhayapuri town in Assam’s Bongaigaon district, and the Jampui bent-toed gecko, only in Tripura’s Jampui Hills. 
  • All the new lizards belong to the genus Cyrtodactylus and are called bent-toed or bow-fingered geckos, named after their bent toes.

 

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