Cyrtodactylus annandalei is a species of bent-toed gecko, a lizard in the family Gekkonidae. The species is endemic to Myanmar.
Etymology The specific name, annandalei, is in honor of Scottish zoologist Nelson Annandale.Beolens B, Watkins M, Grayson M (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. . (Cyrtodactylus annandalei, p. 9).
Taxonomy C. annandalei was discovered in 2000 in Myanmar's Alaungdaw Kathapa National Park and described in 2003. It is sympatric with Cyrtodactylus slowinskii. (Cyrtodactylus annandalei, new species, pp. 465–469, Figures 1–2).
Habitat The preferred natural habitat of C. annandalei is forest.
Description Small for its genus, C. annandalei may attain a snout-to-vent length (SVL) of about .
Reproduction C. annandalei is oviparous. www.reptile-database.org.
Conservation status Since 2018, C. annandalei is listed as Least Concern on the IUCN Red List.
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