Cyrtodactylus nigriocularis or black eyed bent-toed gecko is a species of gecko endemic to Southern Vietnam. More specifically it is found on the Ba Den Mountain (Black Virgin Mountain) which is located in the Tây Ninh Province.
Description This species can be distinguished by its large black eyes, grey or dark brown colored body, depressed head with a wide and depressed snout; its moderately slender body, which is elongate, with developed ventrolateral folds; moderately long limbs and digits long; a tail that is longer than the snout-vent length, which carries large undivided subcaudals;13–14 upper labials, 13–15 lower labials, 17–21 narrow subdigital lamellae on its fourth toe; about 119–145 scale rows around its midbody; and no femoral large scales present.
Behavior and ecology C. nigriocularis is a cave-dwelling species. It lives in caves near streams on granite formations.
Diet The diet of C. nigriocularis is made up of primarily different species of spiders, but it also includes certain snails and slugs, centipedes, grasshoppers, and cockroaches.
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