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{{speciesbox
| image = Kumaon Bent-toed Gecko imported from iNaturalist photo 95736631 on 30 March 2024.jpg
| status = DD
| status_system = IUCN3.1
| status_ref = <ref>[[species:Chelmala Srinivasulu|Srinivasulu C]], [[species:Varad B. Giri|Giri V]] (2021). "''Cyrtodactylus lawderanus''". The [[IUCN]] Red List of Threatened Species 2021: https://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2021-3.RLTS.T202870A2757479.en. Accessed on 13 December 2024.</ref>
| name = Lawder's bent-toed Gecko
| genus = Cyrtodactylus
| species = lawderanus
| authority = ([[Ferdinand Stoliczka|Stoliczka]], 1871)
| synonyms =*''Gymnodactylus lawderanus'' {{small|Stoliczka, 1871}}
*''Alsophylax himalayensis'' {{small|[[Nelson Annandale|Annandale]], 1913}}
*''Cyrtodactylus lawderanus'' {{small|— [[species:Garth Leon Underwood|Underwood]], 1954}}
*''Gonydactylus lawderanus'' {{small|— [[Arnold G. Kluge|Kluge]], 1991}}
*''Cyrtopodion lawderanus'' {{small|— [[species:Herbert Rösler|Rösler]], 2000}}
*''Siwaligekko lawderanus'' {{small|— [[species:Muhammad Sharif Khan|Khan]], 2003}}
*''Cyrtopodion lawderanum'' {{small|— [[Darrel R. Frost|Frost]], 2007}}
*''Cyrtodactylus lawderanum'' {{small|— [[species:Ishan Agarwal|Agarwal]] et al., 2014}}
| synonyms_ref = <ref name=RDB/>
}}

'''Lawder's bent-toed gecko''' ('''''Cyrtodactylus lawderanus''''') is a [[species]] of [[gecko]], a [[lizard]] in the [[Family (biology)|family]] [[Gekkonidae]]. The species is [[Endemism|endemic]] to northern India (western [[Himalayas]], [[Kumaon division|Kumaon]]). Its [[Type locality (biology)|type locality]] is "Kumaon", restricted to [[Almora district|Almora]] by [[Malcolm Arthur Smith]].<ref name=RDB/> It is named after Mr. A. Lawder who collected the [[holotype]]. His identity is not known for sure, but he is likely to have been A.W. Lawder who was a member of the [[Geological Society of London]], as was [[Ferdinand Stoliczka]] who [[species description|described]] the species.<ref name="Beolens et al. 2011"/> It is sometimes placed in the genus ''[[Cyrtopodion]]''.

==Description==
The body of ''C. lawderanus'' is rather slender and elongate, depressed, and covered above with numerous granules intermixed with small roundish tubercles. The upper side of the head is equally granular, with the granular scales being somewhat larger on the snout. The [[Rostral scale|rostral]] is large, and broad, with the nostril pierced between the rostral, the first [[Labial scales|labial]], and two [[Nasal scale|nasal]]s. It has 9 upper and 8 lower labials. The [[Mental scale|mental]] is triangular, partially wedged in between two elongate chin-shields, forming a suture below it. Each of the chin-shields is followed along the labials by three other somewhat rounded shields. The ear-opening is small and rounded. The ventral scales are small. Two pairs of preanal pores occur in the male, are close together, and form an angle. The general colour above is greyish brown, very densely marbled and spotted with dark brown, with some indistinct undulating, whitish cross bands on the body, and margined on the anterior edges with blackish brown. A somewhat indistinct dark band runs from the nostril through the eye to the ear. The front and hind edges of the eye are white. The labials are spotted and speckled with brown. The underside of the body is whitish. The length of the body is nearly 2 inches.<ref name="Boulenger 1890"/>

==Reproduction==
''C. lawderanus'' is [[Oviparity|oviparous]].<ref name=RDB/>

==References==
{{Reflist|refs=
<ref name="Boulenger 1890">{{cite book|author=Boulenger GA|author-link=George Albert Boulenger|title=The Fauna of British India, Including Ceylon and Burma. Reptilia and Batrachia|year=1890|publisher=Secretary of State for India in Council. (Taylor and Francis, printers). xviii + 541 pp.|location=London|url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography/5490}} (''Gymnodactylus lawderanus'', p. 64).</ref>
<ref name="Beolens et al. 2011">{{cite book|last1=Beolens|first1=Bo|author1-link=species:Bo Beolens|last2=Watkins|first2=Michael|author2-link=species:Michael Watkins|last3=Grayson|first3=Michael|author3-link=species:Michael Grayson|title=The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0F758vNQ0UUC&pg=PT487|date=2011|publisher=Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp.|isbn=978-1-4214-0135-5}} (''Cyrtopodion lawderanum'', p. 152).</ref>

<ref name=RDB>{{NRDB species|genus=Cyrtodactylus|species=lawderanus|accessdate=6 October 2017}}</ref>
}}

==Further reading==
*[[Nelson Annandale|Annandale N]] (1913). "Some new and interesting Batrachia and Lizards from India, Ceylon and Borneo". ''Records of the Indian Museum'' '''9''': 301–307. (''Alsophylax himalayensis'', new species, pp. 305–306 + Plate XV, figures 1, 1a, 1b, 1c).
*[[Malcolm Arthur Smith|Smith MA]] (1935). ''The Fauna of British India, Including Ceylon and Burma. Reptilia and Amphibia. Vol. II.—Sauria.'' London: Secretary of State for India in Council. (Taylor and Francis, printers). xiii + 440 pp. + Plate I + 2 maps. (''Gymnodactylus lawderanus'', pp. 58–59, Figure 18).
*[[Ferdinand Stoliczka|Stoliczka F]] (1871). "Notes on new or little known Indian lizards". ''Proceedings of the Asiatic Society of Bengal (Calcutta)'' '''1871''': 192–195. (''Gymnodactylus lawderanus'', new species, p. 194).

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[[Category:Cyrtodactylus]]
[[Category:Taxa named by Ferdinand Stoliczka]]
[[Category:Reptiles described in 1871]]
[[Category:Endemic reptiles of India]]
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