Gehyra lacerata (Lacerated Four-Clawed Gecko)

The common name of this Gecko Lizard in English is commonly called Lacerated Four-Clawed Gecko, Western Four-Clawed Gecko, Lacerated Dtella, Kanchanaburi Four-Clawed Gecko, Giant Four-clawed Gecko and Thai name called จิ้งจกหินอ้วน (Djingdjok Hin Ouan), จิ้งจกหินเมืองกาญจน์ (Djingdjok Hin Muang-gaan).

Gehyra lacerata, Lacerated four-clawed gecko, จิ้งจกหินอ้วน
Source: iNaturalist.org; Gehyra lacerata (Taylor, 1962) observed in Thailand. Photo by tristanv. (CC BY-NC)

จิ้งจกหินอ้วน : Gehyra lacerata (Taylor, 1962)

Gehyra lacerata is a species of the Four-clawed Gecko Genus (Gehyra) within the Gecko Lizard Family (Gekkonidae), Superfamily Gekkota, in the Lizard and Snake Order (Squamata), in the Reptile Class (Reptilia), in the Chordate Phylum (Chordata) in the Animal Kingdom (Animalia).

Published in Taylor, E.H. New oriental reptiles. Univ. Kansas Sci. Bull. 43: 209-263. (1962).

Geographic Range

This species is known with certainly only from Thailand (Kanachanaburi, Ang Hin, Chon Buri), where it has a widespread but disjunct distribution in the northeastern, northwestern and southwestern parts of the country below 500 m asl. A record from Ho Chi Minh City in Vietnam may be misidentified (W. Thaksintham pers. comm. 2017).

Habitat and Ecology

This nocturnal and saxicolous forest species has been found under rocks and logs (Das 2010, Chan-ard et al. 2015). Type locality: 4 km northwest of Kanchanaburi, Kanchanaburi, Thailand.

Synonym

  • Peropus laceratus Edward Harrison Taylor (1962)
  • Peropus laceratus Edward Harrison Taylor (1963)
  • Gehyra lacerata Heinz Wermuth (1965)
  • Gehyra lacerata Arnold Girard Kluge (1993)
  • Gehyra laceratus Vladimir V. Bobrov (1995)
  • Gehyra lacerata Herbert Rösler (2000)
  • Gehyra lacerata Nguyen Van Sang et al. (2009)
  • Gehyra lacerate Tanya Chan-Ard et al. (2015)