You Can Save…by Recognizing New Geckos

The Tenasserim Mountain bent-toed gecko

Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute (SCBI) fellow Dr. Grant Connette was lead author on a study recently published in Plos One, which describes two new species of gecko: the Lenya banded bent-toed gecko and the Tenasserim Mountain bent-toed gecko. these two new types of geckos were discovered in the little-studied lowland forests of Myanmar. Grant conducted the study with a several Smithsonian colleagues

You can read more about it in a an article recently published on the Smithsonian Insider blog here.