Cyrtodactylus irulaorum | |
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Scientific classification
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Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Reptilia |
Order: | Squamata |
Family: | Gekkonidae |
Genus: | Cyrtodactylus |
Species: | C. irulaorum
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Binomial name | |
Cyrtodactylus irulaorum Agarwal, Thackeray & Khandekar, 2023
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Cyrtodactylus irulaorum, the Irula geckoella, is a small species of gecko. [1] [2] It is endemic to the Kancheepuram and Tiruvallur districts of Tamil Nadu. [1] [3] It reaches about 5.1 cm (2 in) in snout–vent length and 8.3 cm (3 in) in total length. [1] It, like the relict gecko, has a light tan coloring, that slowly changes to a dark brown.
The name for the gecko comes from the Irula people of Tamil Nadu, [1] [2] who are known as “The Snake People of South India”.