NATURAL HISTORY · CATALOGUE RECORD

Chan-ard’s Rock Gecko

Cnemaspis chanardi Grismer, Sumontha, Cota, Grismer, Wood, Pauwels & Kunya, 2010

Source-backed taxonomic record

Accepted species in Catalogue of Life’s 11 September 2026 base release. This preserves the source classification and available supporting data; it is not a completed species monograph.

Identity & source status

Scientific name: Cnemaspis chanardi Grismer, Sumontha, Cota, Grismer, Wood, Pauwels & Kunya, 2010
Name authority: Grismer, Sumontha, Cota, Grismer, Wood, Pauwels & Kunya, 2010
Common name: Chan-ard’s Rock Gecko
Rank: species
Accepted status: accepted
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Squamata
Family: Gekkonidae
Genus: Cnemaspis
Extinction status: Not supplied by this source

Classification family tree

Nested taxonomic groups from the source. This is not a direct-ancestor chain, a dated evolutionary tree or a phylogenetic reconstruction.

domainEukaryota (Chatton, 1925) Whittaker & Margulis, 1978
kingdomAnimalia
phylumChordata
subphylumVertebrata
infraphylumGnathostomata
parvphylumOsteichthyes
megaclassTetrapoda
classReptilia Laurenti, 1768
orderSquamata Oppel, 1811
suborderGekkota
familyGekkonidae
genusCnemaspis
speciesCnemaspis chanardi Grismer, Sumontha, Cota, Grismer, Wood, Pauwels & Kunya, 2010

Close classified relatives

These entries share the source’s genus, Cnemaspis. They are not necessarily the closest relatives established by molecular evidence.

Species	Classification	Source status
Argus Rock GeckoCnemaspis argus Dring, 1979	GekkonidaeChordata	Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied
Mumpuni Rock GeckoCnemaspis mumpuniae Grismer, Wood, Anuar, Riyanto, Ahmad, Muin, Sumontha, Grismer, Onn, Quah & Pauwels, 2014	GekkonidaeChordata	Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied
Siamese Rock GeckoCnemaspis siamensis (Smith, 1925)	GekkonidaeChordata	Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied
Ornate Day GeckoCnemaspis ornata (Beddome, 1870)	GekkonidaeChordata	Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied
Chanthaburi Rock GeckoCnemaspis chanthaburiensis Bauer & Das, 1998	GekkonidaeChordata	Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied
Kottiyoor Day GeckoCnemaspis kottiyoorensis Cyriac & Umesh, 2014	GekkonidaeChordata	Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied
Adang-Rawi Rock GeckoCnemaspis adangrawi Ampai, Rujirawan, Wood, Stuart & Aowphol, 2019	GekkonidaeChordata	Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied
Ajija’s Day GeckoCnemaspis ajijae Sayyed, Pyron & Dileepkumar, 2018	GekkonidaeChordata	Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied
Golden banded dwarf geckoCnemaspis bangara Agarwal, Thackeray, Pal & Khandekar, 2020	GekkonidaeChordata	Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied
Butewes’ day geckoCnemaspis butewai Karunarathna, Poyarkov, de Silva, Madawala, Botejue, Gorin, Surasinghe, Gabadage, Ukuwela & Bauer, 2019	GekkonidaeChordata	Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied
Cnemaspis chengodumalaensis Cyriac, Palot, Deuti & Umesh, 2020	GekkonidaeChordata	Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied
Yellow-bellied Day GeckoCnemaspis flaviventralis Sayyed, Pyron & Dahanukar, 2016	GekkonidaeChordata	Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied

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Names & synonyms

Names explicitly linked to this accepted taxon in the source. Synonymy can change with revision.

Recorded name	Source status
Cnemaspis siamensis Smith, 1935 Smith, 1935	ambiguous synonym
Gonatodes siamensis Smith, 1930 Smith, 1930	ambiguous synonym

Documented distribution

Source distribution statements, not a complete range map. A listed locality is not necessarily a place of origin.

S Thailand (foothills of the Nakhon Si Thammarat and Sankalakhiri Mountains and lowland areas to the west, extending from the southern terminus of the Isthmus of Kra in Donsak District, Surat Thani Province, southward along the western foothills through Khao Chong and Nayong district, Trang Province to at least the Phuphaphet Cave, Satun Province in the south. It probably continues approximately 45 km further south to the Banjaran Nakawan mountains that form the physiographic barrier between Thailand and Peninsular Malaysia. It extends westward from the foothills through the lowlands to at least Khlong Thom District, Krabi Province. It ranges from near sea level at Khlong Thom to just under 600 m at Khao Chong. Smith (1930) reported specimens from Khao Whip (=Khao Wang Hip), Nakhon Si Thammarat Province but the elevation is unknown. Its presence on Ko Tao Island, Surat Thani Province, approximately 85 km off the coast from Muang District, Chumpon Province, as opposed to the presence of Cnemaspis siamensis which is geographically closer to Ko Tao Island, is consistent with the geological history of this part of Peninsular Thailand. The island chain consisting of Ko Tao and the intervening islands Ko Samui and Ko Phangan, are offshore extensions of the Nakhon Si Thammarat Mountains to which they were connected during the last glacial maximum (Sathiamurthy & Voris 2006) and lie to the east of the Isthmus of Kra. It is likely that C. chanardi also occurs on Ko Samui and Ko Phangan; see also map [Fig. 1] in GRISMER et al. 2010)

Source literature & publication evidence

References attached to this source record, including nomenclatural citations where supplied. This is a selected bibliography; abbreviated citations remain in the source’s form.

GRISMER, L. LEE; MONTRI SUMONTHA, MICHAEL COTA, JESSE L. GRISMER, PERRY L. WOOD, JR., OLIVIER S. G. PAUWELS & KIRATI KUNYA. (2010). A revision and redescription of the rock gecko Cnemaspis siamensis (Taylor 1925) (Squamata: Gekkonidae) from Peninsular Thailand with descriptions of seven new species. Zootaxa 2576: 1–55. Source fields: Taxon.tsv dwc:namePublishedIn, Taxon.tsv dcterms:references

Origins, evidence & remaining research

Name authority and publication references document nomenclature where the source supplies it. They do not establish evolutionary origins or the earliest fossil occurrence.

Specimen-level evidence, morphology, ecological research, phylogenetic studies, a comprehensive bibliography and a located literary passage have not yet been compiled for this record. A suitable sourced image remains to be added.

Dataset citation & attribution

This exact taxon in ChecklistBank · Catalogue of Life 2026-09-11

Catalogue of Life 2026-09-11; dataset 316321; doi:10.48580/dgz5n. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ . Retrieved 5 October 2026.

Stable key: col:WGKS. Classification follows source parent identifiers. English common names may vary by region.