Creatures in Crisis
Photograph of Brevidactyl Bow-fingered Gecko (Cyrtodactylus brevidactylus), recorded as Endangered
Brevidactyl Bow-fingered Gecko (Cyrtodactylus brevidactylus). Image via Wikimedia Commons.

Endangered

Brevidactyl Bow-fingered Gecko

Cyrtodactylus brevidactylus

Brevidactyl Bow-fingered Gecko is a gecko in the family Gekkonidae — Cyrtodactylus brevidactylus, recorded as Endangered and tied to Myanmar.

Status
Endangered
Scientific name
Cyrtodactylus brevidactylus
Recorded from
Myanmar
Taxonomy
Squamata · Gekkonidae · Cyrtodactylus

The gecko

Typical geckos are night-active lizards with adhesive toe pads. They hunt insects on rock, bark, or walls.

Range and habitat

Brevidactyl Bow-fingered Gecko is a nocturnal and terrestrial species of gecko that is found in Myanmar.

GBIF currently lists 9 occurrence points. Those points follow where people logged the taxon — museum drawers and surveys included — not a closed range boundary.

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

Brevidactyl Bow-fingered 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 Cyrtodactylus brevidactylus — often a short stub, Wikidata item Q3008034 and GBIF occurrence geography. 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.

Photograph via Wikimedia Commons. Wikipedia · Wikidata · IUCN Red List.

Same genus

Photograph of Cyrtodactylus chanhomeae (Cyrtodactylus chanhomeae), recorded as Critically EndangeredCR

Cyrtodactylus chanhomeae

Cyrtodactylus chanhomeae
Photograph of Cyrtodactylus nigriocularis (Cyrtodactylus nigriocularis), recorded as Critically EndangeredCR

Cyrtodactylus nigriocularis

Cyrtodactylus nigriocularis
Photograph of Forest spotted gecko (Cyrtodactylus speciosus), recorded as EndangeredEN

Forest spotted gecko

Cyrtodactylus speciosus
Photograph of Malayan Forest Gecko (Cyrtodactylus pulchellus), recorded as EndangeredEN

Malayan Forest Gecko

Cyrtodactylus pulchellus

Quick answers

What is Brevidactyl Bow-fingered Gecko?
Brevidactyl Bow-fingered Gecko is a gecko in the family Gekkonidae — Cyrtodactylus brevidactylus.
What is the conservation status of Brevidactyl Bow-fingered Gecko?
Endangered, as the IUCN category stored on Wikidata for Cyrtodactylus brevidactylus. Confirm the official assessment on iucnredlist.org.
Where does Brevidactyl Bow-fingered Gecko live?
Brevidactyl Bow-fingered Gecko is a nocturnal and terrestrial species of gecko that is found in Myanmar.
Why is Brevidactyl Bow-fingered Gecko in crisis?
It is Endangered on Wikidata. Read the official Red List assessment for the criteria.
Is this the IUCN Red List page for Cyrtodactylus brevidactylus?
No. This is a researched catalog account. The Red List is the assessment.
Is Brevidactyl Bow-fingered Gecko a pet?
An animal on this catalog is in crisis in the wild. Keeping one is usually the wrong question.