Endangered
Yercaud day gecko
Cnemaspis yercaudensis
Yercaud day gecko is a gecko in the family Gekkonidae — Cnemaspis yercaudensis, recorded as Endangered.
The gecko
Typical geckos are night-active lizards with adhesive toe pads. They hunt insects on rock, bark, or walls.
Range and habitat
The Yercaud day gecko is a gecko found in the Shevaroy Hills of southern India. Its type locality is Yercaud Town (11°48'N. 78°14'E), in the Shevaroyan (Shevaroy) Range, Salem District, Tamil Nadu, southwest India, with its habitat located at 1,515 m (4,970 ft) above sea level.
Pins are Wikidata “endemic to” fields. Orange dots, when present, are GBIF occurrence tiles — survey bias included.
Habits
Typical geckos hunt after dark on vertical surfaces. Day geckos in some genera are the exception — bright and diurnal.
In crisis
Yercaud day gecko is 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 Yercaud day gecko — often a short stub, Wikidata item Q2980940. 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.
