Moluccan bow-fingered gecko

The Moluccan bow-fingered gecko (Cyrtodactylus deveti) is a species of lizard in the family Gekkonidae. The species is endemic to the Moluccas in Indonesia.

Etymology The specific name, deveti, is in honor of Dutch neurosurgeon Arnold C. De Vet (1904–2001).Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. . (Cyrtodactylus deveti, p. 71).

Geographic range C. deveti is found in the northern Moluccas, on the islands of Halmahera and Morotai.

Habitat The preferred natural habitat of C. deveti is forest, at altitudes from sea level to .

Reproduction C. deveti is oviparous.

References

Further reading Brongersma LD (1948). "Lizards from the Island of Morotai (Moluccas)". Proceedings of the Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen, Series C. 51: 486–495. (Gymnodactylus deveti, new species, pp. 486–489, Figures 1a–1d). Rösler H (2000). "Kommentierte Liste der rezent, subrezent und fossil bekannten Geckotaxa (Reptilia: Gekkonomorpha)". Gekkota 2: 2853. (Cyrtodactylus deveti, new combination, p. 65). (in German).