The Durrell's night gecko was described as a subspecies of the Serpent Island gecko,[3] and further erected as a new species in 2000.[4]
When naming it as a new subspecies in 1994, Arnold and Jones used durrelli, which is genitivesingular, as the subspecific name. In 2004 Michels and Bauer pointed out that because the subspecies is named in honor of two people, the subspecific name should be in the genitive plural. Accordingly, they changed durrelli to durrellorum.
^Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. ISBN978-1-4214-0135-5. (Nactus serpensinsula durrellorum, p. 78).
^Arnold, E.N. 2000. Using fossils and phylogenies to understand evolution of reptile communities on islands. In: G. Rheinwold (ed.), Isolated Vertebrate Communities in the Tropics, Vol. 46, pp. 309–323. Bonner Zoologische Monographien.
Further reading
Arnold EN, Jones CG (1994). "The night geckos of the genus Nactus in the Mascarene Islands with a description of the population on Round Island". Dodo30: 119–131. (Nactus serpensinsula durrelli [sic], new subspecies).
Loveridge A (1951). "A New Gecko of the Genus Gymnodactylus from Serpent Island". Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington64: 91–92. (Gymnodactylus serpensinsula, new species).
Michels JP, Bauer AM (2004). "Some corrections to the scientific names of amphibians and reptiles". Bonner Zoologische Beiträge52: 83–94. (Nactus serpensinsula durrellorum [sic], corrected name).
