Endangered
Wynad day gecko
Cnemaspis wynadensis
Wynad day gecko is a gecko in the family Gekkonidae — Cnemaspis wynadensis, recorded as Endangered.
Appearance
The basal part of the digits are beneath, with very small scales, and the two distal scales only being a little enlarged and plate-like. Its head is covered with very small granules, that are keeled on the snout. Abdominal scales are smooth.
From snout to vent, it grows to 1.6 inches (4.1 cm). The tail is 1.8 inches (4.6 cm).
Range and habitat
It is endemic to the Western Ghats in Kerala, India, and only known from two locations, Wayanad and Silent Valley National Park.
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
Wynad 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 Wynad day gecko, Wikidata item Q2980938. 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.
