Critically Endangered
Rough-bellied day gecko
Cnemaspis tropidogaster
Rough-bellied day gecko is a gecko in the family Gekkonidae — Cnemaspis tropidogaster, recorded as Critically Endangered.
Appearance
It has a distinct head, elongated snout, and keeled ventral scales. Its dark-brown dorsal side has transverse arrangement of light and dark variegations. It is pale brown/cream on its underside with spiny tubercles on its sides.
Range and habitat
A relatively uncommon day active gecko from the midhills of the Central Province Knuckles Mountain Range and also from Sabaragamuwa Province and parts of the monsoon forests in the Eastern Province of Sri Lanka. The rough-bellied day gecko is a day geckos found in the Western Ghats of India and Sri Lanka.
Pins are Wikidata “endemic to” fields. Orange dots, when present, are GBIF occurrence tiles — survey bias included.
Habits
Diurnal and crepuscular species, often found in rocky substrates and low trunks of trees, and occasionally entering man-made structures, such as thatched huts and cowsheds.
In crisis
Live populations were rediscovered nearly after 120 years from Sri Lanka in 2016 from a low elevation (50–80 m (160–260 ft) asl.) of the wet zone of Sri Lanka.
Rough-bellied day gecko is Critically Endangered on this catalog because that is the IUCN category stored on Wikidata. Confirm the official criteria and any later count on iucnredlist.org.
Sources
Written for this catalog from the English Wikipedia article on Rough-bellied day gecko, Wikidata item Q2980927. Family and order context is original field-guide writing about the group, not a copied assessment of this one species. Wikipedia text is CC BY-SA. Not an IUCN assessment. Counts, when quoted, can change — confirm them on the recovery programme and on iucnredlist.org.
