.::::: Lizards of the World - Gekkota - Cnemaspis :::::.
Last update: 24 July, 2003

This genus is distributed in Africa and Southeast Asia. The African species are often placed in the subgenus Ancylodactylus.

Cnemaspis africanus (Werner, 1895)

Distribution: Cameroon, Ivoery Coast, Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda.

Cnemaspis barbouri Perret, 1986

Distribution: Tanzania.

Cnemaspis dickersoni (Schmidt, 1919)

Distribution: Democratic Republic of Congo, Ethiopia, Kenya, Rwanda, Sudan, Tanzania and Uganda.

Cnemaspis dilepis Perret, 1963

Distribution: Cameroon.

Cnemaspis gigas Perret, 1986

Distribution: Nigeria.

Cnemaspis koehleri Mertens, 1937

Distribution: Cameroon and Equatorial Guinea.

Cnemaspis occidentalis Angel, 1943

Distribution: Guinea, Ivory Coast, Sierra Leone.

Cnemaspis petrodroma Perret, 1986

Distribution: Nigeria.

Cnemaspis quattuorseriata (Sternfeld, 1912)

Distribution: Cameroon, Democratic Republic of Congo, Kenya, Rwanda and Uganda.

Cnemaspis spinicollis (Müller, 1907)

Distribution: Cameroon and Ivory Coast.

Cnemaspis uzungwae Perret, 1986

Distribution: Uzungwa Mountains, Tanzania

Literature
Böhme, W. 1975. Zur Herpetofaunistik Kameruns, mit Beschreibung eines neuen Scinciden. Bonn. zool. Beitr., 26(1-3): 2-48.
Das, I. & A. Bauer. 2000. Two new species of Cnemaspis (Sauria: Gekkonidae) from Tamil Nadu, Southern India. Russ. J. Herpetol., 7(1):17-28.
Röll, B. 2001. Evidence for diurnality from an eye lens crystallin in Cnemaspis (Reptilia, Gekkonidae). Herpetol. J., 11(2):75-77
Rösler, H. 1995. Geckos der Welt. Alle Gattungen. Urania-Verlag, Leipzig, Jena, Berlin, 256 pp.
Schmidt, K.P. 1919. Contributions to the Herpetology of the Belgian Congo based on the Collection of the American Museum Congo Expedition, 1909-1915. Part I. Turtles, Crocodiles, Lizards, and Chameleons. Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist., 39: 385-624.