Cyrtodactylus markuscombaii, also known commonly as the striped gecko, is a species of gecko, a lizard in the family Gekkonidae. The species is endemic to eastern Nepal.
Etymology The specific name, markuscombaii, is in honor of Markus Comba (born 1956), who is a Swiss antiquarian bookseller, book restorer, and naturalist.Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. . (Gonydactylus markuscombaii, p. 169).
Distribution Cyrtodactylus markuscombaii is known only from a single locality in eastern Nepal (Ilam District, altitude and is possibly a Nepalese endemite.
Reproduction Cyrtodactylus markuscombaii is oviparous.
Taxonomy In 2025 Bhattarai et al. considered Cyrtodactylus markuscombaii to be a synonym of Cyrtodactylus martinstolli.
References
Further reading Darevsky, Ilya S.; Helfenberger, Notker; Orlov, Nikolai L.; Shah, Karan (1998). "Two New Species of the Genus Gonydactylus (Sauria: Gekkonidae) from Eastern Nepal". Russian Journal of Herpetology 4 (2): 89–93. (Gonydactylus markuscombaii, new species). (in English and Nepali). (Cyrtodactylus markuscombaii, p. 74). (in German).