Cyrtodactylus nigriocularis

Appearance

This species can be distinguished by its large black eyes, grey or dark brown colored body, depressed head with a wide and depressed snout. Its moderately slender body, that is elongate, with developed ventrolateral folds; moderately long limbs and digits long; a tail that is longer than the snout-vent length, that carries large undivided subcaudals; 13–14 upper labials, 13–15 lower labials, 17–21 narrow subdigital lamellae on its fourth toe; about 119–145 scale rows around its midbody, and no femoral large scales present.

Range and habitat

Cyrtodactylus nigriocularis or black eyed bent-toed gecko is a gecko endemic to Southern Vietnam. More specifically it is found on the Ba Den Mountain (Black Virgin Mountain) that is located in the Tây Ninh Province.

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

Cyrtodactylus nigriocularis 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 Cyrtodactylus nigriocularis, Wikidata item Q3009325. 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.