Cnemaspis kumpoli explained

Cnemaspis kumpoli, commonly as Kumpol's rock gecko or the Trang Province gecko, is a species of gecko, a lizard in the family Gekkonidae. The species is endemic to the Malay Peninsula.^[1]

Etymology

The specific name, kumpoli, is in honor of Nai Kumpol Isarankura, who was Curator of Zoological Specimens at Chulalongkorn University in Bangkok, Thailand.^[2]

Geographic range

C. kumpoli is found in West Malaysia (Perlis, Selangor) and southern Thailand (Satun, Songkhla, Trang).^[1]

Reproduction

C. kumpoli is oviparous.^[1]

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).

Notes and References

1. Web site: Cnemaspis kumpoli . The Reptile Database. 2017-11-11.
2. Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. . (Cnemaspis kumpoli, p. 148).