BENT-TOED GECKOS

About:

• Bent-toed geckos are a diverse genus of a type of small lizard.
  
  
• Genus:
  
  
• Number of gecko species under it: This genus has more than 250 described species at present. making it the largest of all gecko genera.
  
  
• Common name: They are called bent-toed or bow-fingered geckos, named after their bent toes.
  
  
• The six newly discovered species are –
  • Guwahati bent-toed gecko,
    
    
  • Kaziranga bent-toed gecko,
    
    
  • Jaintia bent-toed gecko
    
    
  • Nagaland bent-toed gecko,
    
    
  • Abhayapuri bent-toed gecko (found near Abhayapuri town in Assam’s Bongaigaon district) and
    
    
  • Jampui bent-toed gecko (found in Tripura’s Jampui Hills).
    
    
  
  
  
• The discovery increases the number of bent-toed geckos described from the Himalaya and north-eastern India to 15 (nine of which have been described this year alone).