Cnemaspis jacobsoni is a species of gecko, a lizard in the family Gekkonidae. The species is native to Indonesia.

Etymology The specific name, jacobsoni, is in honor of Dutch naturalist Edward Richard Jacobson (1870–1944).Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. . (Cnemaspis jacobsoni, p. 132).

Geographic range C. jacobsoni is endemic to the island of Simeulue, Indonesia.

Habitat The preferred natural habitat of C. jacobsoni is forest.

Description Small for its genus, C. jacobsoni may attain a snout-to-vent length (SVL) of . Males have neither femoral pores nor preanal pores.

Reproduction C. jacobsoni is oviparous.

References

Further reading Das I (2005). "Revision of the Genus Cnemaspis Strauch, 1887 (Sauria: Gekkonidae), from the Mentawai and Adjacent Archipelagos off Western Sumatra, Indonesia, with the Description of Four New Species". Journal of Herpetology 39 (2): 233–247. (Cnemaspis jacobsoni, new species).