Gecko is the name of the species is named after Prof. Le Xuan Canh, Institute of Ecology and Biological Resources, to acknowledge the support and contribution in his study of biodiversity in Vietnam.

A new species of Gecko in the North of our newly scientists from Germany and Vietnam published in the journal Zootaxa. Standard samples of species of Gecko is collected at Huu Lien (Lang Son) and Sa Pa (Lao Cai). New species is named scientific Gekko canhi Roesler, Nguyen, Doan, Ho, Nguyen & Ziegler, 2010.

Gecko is the name of the species is named after Prof. Le Xuan Canh, Institute of Ecology and Biological Resources, to acknowledge the support and contribution in his study of biodiversity in Vietnam.

                                                       New species of Gecko Gekko canhi.

This is the new Gecko species was discovered Tuesday in the last two years in the North of us, besides eyelid gecko species Goniurosaurus catbaensis discovered the island of Cat Ba (Hai Phong) and species Goniurosaurus huulienensis detected in Huu Lien (Lang Son) in 2008.

Average size from 8.5 to 10 cm, each on a scale and lower lip, back and upper leg tube u have found small scales large bulge under the tail …, the new Gecko Gekko canhi have morphological characteristics very similar to the Japanese species of Gecko Gekko japonicusBut it differs in that Monday species: larger size, more than time scales of the face, the number of rows of scales around the body, the belly scales …

This is the 8th of the same species of Gecko Gekko recorded in Vietnam.