''Cnemaspis modiglianii'' is a
species
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of
gecko
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, a
lizard
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in the
family
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Gekkonidae
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. The species is
endemic
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to
Indonesia
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.
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 ...
, ''modiglianii'', is in honor of Italian anthropologist
Elio Modigliani
Elio Modigliani (13 June 1860 – 6 August 1932) was an Italian anthropologist, zoologist, explorer, and plant collector.
Biography
The son of a Florence, Florentine banker, he first made his name in the Italian scientific community at the age o ...
.
[Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011). ''The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles''. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. . (''Cnemaspis modiglianii'', p. 181).]
Geographic range
In Indonesia ''C. modiglianii'' is found on
Enggano Island and on the islands of the
Mentawai Archipelago.
Description
The maximum recorded snout-to-vent length for ''C. modiglianii'' is .
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Reproduction
''C. modiglianii'' is oviparous
Oviparous animals are animals that reproduce by depositing fertilized zygotes outside the body (i.e., by laying or spawning) in metabolically independent incubation organs known as eggs, which nurture the embryo into moving offsprings kno ...
.[
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References
Further reading
* Das I (2005). "Revision of the Genus ''Cnemaspis'' Strauch
Strauch, a German word meaning ''bush'' or ''shrub
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, 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 modiglianii'', new species).
modiglianii
Reptiles described in 2005
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