who hails from,
photographs by Akshay Khandekar, the Western Ghats of Tamil Nadu, India, a research team,
consisting of Akshay Khandekar, Tejas Thackeray, Swapnil Pawar, Ishan Agarwal,
Satpal Gangalmale, and Vivek Waghe,
found this brightly coloured gecko and decided to name it
after Vincent van Gogh’s iconic “Starry Night” (1889), above Vincent van Gogh,
“Starry Night” (1889), oil on canvas, 29 x 36 1/4 inches. Image via Wikimedia
Commons,
as a result of sexual
dimorphism, only the males resemble the Post-Impressionist painting and are
largely blue except for a faded brown collar and upper body, you
can find out more about Cnemaspis vangoghi, in the report
published on ZooKeys, as I mentioned what a handsome
chap, but I have to say I think he has lost the end of his tail, it seems to come
to an abrupt end.
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