A new species of Cnemaspis(Sauria: Gekkonidae) from Southern Thailand.
The name Sauria was coined by James Macartney (1802); it was the Latinisation of the French name Sauriens, coined by Alexandre Brongniart (1800) for an order of reptiles in the classification proposed by the author, containing lizards and crocodilians, later discovered not to be each other's closest relatives.
In phylogenetic systematics they are variously defined as the common ancestor and all its descendants of Younginiforms and "crown diapsids" (the common ancestor of lizards, crocodilians and birds, and all their descendants) Callaway 1997, or all diapsids that are more closely related to Sauria than to Araeoscelidia (Laurin and Gauthier 2000).