Published July 22, 2025 | Version v1
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Cnemaspis chanardii Grismer 2010

  • 1. Suranaree University of Technology, Nakhon Ratchasima, Thailand
  • 2. Thailand Natural History Museum, Pathum Thani, Thailand
  • 3. Rabbit in the Moon Foundation (RIM), Suanphueng, Thailand

Description

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.

Notes

Published as part of 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, pp. e 154712 in Biodiversity Data Journal 13 on page e154712, DOI: 10.3897/BDJ.13.e154712

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References

  • Nguyen Hung Ngoc, Hung Chih-Ming, Yang Ming-Yuan, Lin Si-Min 2020 Sympatric competitors have driven the evolution of temporal activity patterns in Cnemaspis geckos in Southeast Asia Scientific Reports 10 1 27 10.1038/s41598-019-56549-x