Cyrtodactylus wakeorum is a species of bent-toed gecko, a lizard in the family Gekkonidae. The species is endemic to Myanmar.
Etymology The specific name, wakeorum (genitive plural), is in honor of American herpetologists David Burton Wake and Marvalee Hendricks Wake, husband and wife.Beolens B, Watkins M, Grayson M (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. . (Cyrtodactylus wakeorum, p. 278).
Taxonomy C. wakeorum was discovered in 2001 in Myanmar's Rakhine Yoma Elephant Range and described in 2003. (Cyrtodactylus wakeorum, new species, pp. 479–482, Figures 10–11).
Habitat The preferred natural habitat of C. wakeorum is forest.
Description Small for its genus, C. wakeorum may attain a snout-to-vent length (SVL) of .
Reproduction C. wakeorum is oviparous.
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