Cyrtodactylus wakeorum
{{Short description|Species of lizard}}
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| status_system = IUCN3.1
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| species = wakeorum
| authority = Bauer, 2003
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Cyrtodactylus wakeorum is a species of bent-toed gecko, a lizard in the family Gekkonidae. The species is endemic to Myanmar.
Etymology
The specific name, wakeorum (genitive plural), is in honor of American herpetologists David Burton Wake and Marvalee Hendricks Wake, husband and wife.Beolens B, Watkins M, Grayson M (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. {{ISBN|978-1-4214-0135-5}}. (Cyrtodactylus wakeorum, p. 278).
Taxonomy
C. wakeorum was discovered in 2001 in Myanmar's Rakhine Yoma Elephant Range and described in 2003.{{cite journal|author=Bauer AM|authorlink=:fr:Aaron Matthew Bauer|s2cid=129933095|year=2003|title=Descriptions of seven new Cyrtodactylus (Squamata: Gekkonidae) with a key to the species of Myanmar (Burma)|journal=Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences|volume=54|issue=25|pages=463–498}} (Cyrtodactylus wakeorum, new species, pp. 479–482, Figures 10–11).
Habitat
Description
Small for its genus, C. wakeorum may attain a snout-to-vent length (SVL) of {{convert|6.4|cm|in|abbr=on}}.
Reproduction
C. wakeorum is oviparous.
References
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Category:Endemic fauna of Myanmar
Category:Reptiles described in 2003
Category:Taxa named by Aaron M. Bauer
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