Smith's bent-toed gecko (Hemidactylus malcolmsmithi), also known commonly as Malcolm's bow-fingered gecko, is a species of lizard in the family Gekkonidae. The species is endemic to India.
Taxonomy Hemidactylus malcolmsmithi was originally described in the genus Gymnodactylus. It is sometimes placed in the genus Cyrtodactylus.
Etymology The specific name, malcolmsmithi, is in honor of British herpetologist Malcolm Arthur Smith.Beolens, Bo: Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. . (Cyrtodactylus malcolmsmithi, p. 247).
Geographic range Hemidactylus malcolmsmithi is found in northern India, in the Indian state of Punjab. www.reptile-database.org.
The type locality is "Beas River basin, Punjab, India".Constable (1949).
Habitat The preferred natural habitats of Hemidactylus malcolmsmithi are shrubland and forest.
Description A small species for its genus, Hemidactylus malcolmsmithi has a maximum recorded snout-to-vent length (SVL) of . It has a series of 10–14 femoral pores on the ventral surface of each thigh, the two series being separated by two poreless scales.
Reproduction Hemidactylus malcolmsmithi is oviparous.
References
Further reading Agarwal I, Giri VB, Bauer AM (2018). "On the Status of Cyrtodactylus malcolmsmithi (Constable, 1949)" Breviora (557): 1–11. (Hemidactylus malcolmsmithi, new combination). Constable, John D. (1949). "Reptiles from the Indian Peninsula in the Museum of Comparative Zoology". Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Cambridge (Massachusetts) 103 (2): 59–160. (Gymnodactylus malcolmsmithi, new species, pp. 80–82). Underwood, Garth (1954). "On the classification and evolution of geckos". Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 124 (3): 469–492. (Cyrtodactylus malcolmsmithi, new combination).