The Durrell's night gecko was described as a subspecies of the
Serpent Island gecko, and further erected as a new species in 2000. When naming it as a new subspecies in 1994,
Arnold and Jones used
durrelli, which is
genitive singular, 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. == References ==