Cnemaspis dezwaani is a species of gecko, a lizard in the family Gekkonidae. The species is endemic to Indonesia.[1]

Cnemaspis dezwaani
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Squamata
Family: Gekkonidae
Genus: Cnemaspis
Species:
C. dezwaani
Binomial name
Cnemaspis dezwaani
Das, 2005

Etymology

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The specific name, dezwaani, is in honor of Dutch anthropologist Johannes Pieter Kleiweg de Zwaan.[2]

References

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  1. ^ "Cnemaspis dezwaani ". The Reptile Database. Retrieved 2017-11-11.
  2. ^ 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 dezwaani, p. 71).

Further reading

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  • Das I (2005). "Revision of the Genus Cnemaspis Strauch, 1887 (Sauria: Gekkonidae), from the Mentawai and Adjacent Archipelagos off Western Sumatra, Indonesia, with the Description of Four New Species". Journal of Herpetology 39 (2): 233–247. (Cnemaspis dezwaani, new species).