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Nilgiri day gecko
Conservation status
Near Threatened  (IUCN 3.1)
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Reptilia
Order:	Squamata
Family:	Gekkonidae
Genus:	Cnemaspis
Species:	C. nilagirica
Binomial name
Cnemaspis nilagirica Manamendra-Arachchi, Batuwita & Pethiyagoda, 2007

The Nilgiri day gecko (Cnemaspis nilagirica) is a species of gecko endemic to southern India. It was formerly known only from a single female specimen collected in 1885 that was misidentified as a variety of the Kandyan day gecko (C. kandiana var. tropidogaster ) by George Albert Boulenger, who used it as a syntype for his description of the variety. After a living population was not reported for over 130 years, a live male was collected in 2019, marking the first collection of a male specimen of C. nilagirica.

References

1. Ganesh, S.R. 2021. Cnemaspis nilagirica. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2021: e.T194097A158443820. https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/194097/158443820. Downloaded on 18 October 2021.
2. "Cnemaspis nilagirica". The Reptile Database. Retrieved 2017-11-11.
3. Campbell, Patrick D.; Palot, Muhamed Jafer; Umesh, Pavukandy; Johny, Alex; Cyriac, Vivek Philip (2019-04-16). "Rediscovery of Cnemaspis nilagirica Manamendra-Arachchi, Batuwita and Pethiyagoda, 2007 (Squamata: Gekkonidae) from Kerala, India with notes on morphology and distribution". Zootaxa. 4586 (1): 98–108. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4586.1.4. ISSN 1175-5334. PMID 31716143.

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