Marbled Bow-fingered Gecko

About the Marbled Bow-fingered Gecko

The marbled bow-fingered gecko (Cyrtodactylus marmoratus) is a species of gecko found in Southeast Asia. Head large, depressed; snout pointed, longer than the diameter of the orbit, which equals its distance from the ear-opening; forehead concave; ear-opening oval, oblique, about one third the diameter of the eye. Head granular, with small tubercles on the occiput and temples; the granules enlarged on the snout. Rostral subquadrangular, about twice as broad as high, with median cleft above; nostril bordered by the rostral, the first labial and 4 or 5 scales. Twelve upper and ten lower labials; mental triangular; two or three pair of chin-shields, median largest and in contact behind the mental. Throat with very small granules- Body elongate, covered above with small granules, intermixed with small, round, feebly keeled, subtrihedral tubercles. Lateral fold, sometimes very indistinct, with a few, slightly enlarged tubercles. Ventral scales small, smooth, cycloid, imbricate, 40—45 across the middle of the belly. Male with 12 or 13 preanal pores in an angular series, an inverted-V-shaped, in a longitudinal groove, and 4—6 femoral pores, separated from the former... Wikipedia →