Canh's gecko

Canh's gecko (Gekko canhi) is a species of lizard in the family Gekkonidae. The species is endemic to Vietnam.

Etymology The specific name, canhi, is in honor of Vietnamese ecologist Le Xuan Canh.Beolens, Bo; Watkins M; Grayson, Michael (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Maryland. Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. . (Gekko canhi, p. 46).

Geographic range G. canhi is found in Lang Son Province and Lao Cai Province, in northern Vietnam.

Habitat The preferred natural habitat of G. canhi is forest, at altitudes of .

Description Medium-sized for its genus, the snout-to-vent length of an adult G. canhi does not exceed .

Reproduction G. canhi is oviparous.

References

Further reading Rösler H, Nguyen TQ, Doan KV, Ho CT, Nguyen TT, Ziegler T (2010). "A new species of the genus Gekko Laurenti (Squamata: Sauria: Gekkonidae) from Vietnam with remarks on G. japonicus (Schlegel)". Zootaxa 2329: 56–68. (Gekko canhi, new species).