Cnemaspis chanardii Grismer et al., 2010

Cook-Price, Dawn R., Makchai, Sunchai, Naithani, Archana, Pawangkhanant, Parinya & Suwanwaree, Pongthep, 2025, Lizard survey of Ko Pha-gnan in the Surat Thani Province, Thailand, Biodiversity Data Journal 13, pp. e 154712-e 154712 : e154712-

Cnemaspis chanardii Grismer et al., 2010

Chan-ard’s rock gecko.

Distribution

A total of 14 individuals were detected in two of the three habitat types. There were ten individuals detected in eight different National Park habitat transects and three individuals in two different human disturbed forest transects. This species primarily inhabited rocky forested habitat.

Notes

This species (Fig. 5 ) is primarily diurnal often sharing fragmented rocky habitats with nocturnal sympatric species in the Cyrtodactylus genus ( Nguyen et al. 2020). Diet consists of a variety of invertebrates.

Figures

Figure 5. Gekkonidae lizards. A, B Cnemaspis chanardi (photo credit: James Covert); C Gekko gecko (photo credit: Vikas Kumar); D, E Cyrtodactylus brevipalmatus; F Hemidactylus frenatus; G Cyrtodactylus zebraicus; H Hemidactylus frenatus; I Hemidactylus platyurus; J, K Gekko (Ptychozoon) kuhli.