Guwahati, July 15 -- A new species of diurnal gecko has been discovered from Assam and named Cnemaspis brahmaputra, after the Brahmaputra River.

The species was recorded at Dirgheswari Temple on the northern bank of the river, facing Guwahati.

Unlike most geckos found in Northeast India, which are nocturnal, Cnemaspis brahmaputra is active during the day. The discovery has been documented in the latest issue of Taprobanica: The Journal of Asian Biodiversity.

The research was conducted by Amit Sayyed of the Wildlife Protection and Research Society (Maharashtra), A A Thasun Amarasinghe of the Research Centre for Biosystematics and Evolution (Indonesia), Madhurima Das and Rupankar Bhattacharjee of Assam Don Bosco University's Department o...