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Issue: Vol. 2930 No. 1: 27 Jun. 2011
Type: Articles
Published: 2011-06-27
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2930.1.2
Page range: 22-32
Abstract views: 71
PDF downloaded: 1

A new species of bent-toed gecko (Cyrtodactylus, Gekkonidae) from the North Papuan Mountains

Terrestrial Vertebrates, South Australian Museum, North Terrace, Adelaide, S.A, 5000, Australia Center for Environmental and Evolutionary Biology, Adelaide University, Adelaide, S.A., 5005, Australia
Department of Biology, University of Manokwari, Papua, Indonesia
Herpetology Division, Museum Zoologicum Bogoriense, Research Center for Biology, Indonesian Institute of Sciences (LIPI), Widyasatwaloka Building-LIPI, Jalan Raya Cibinong Km 46, Cibinong 16911, West Java, Indonesia
Terrestrial Vertebrates, South Australian Museum, North Terrace, Adelaide, S.A, 5000, Australia Conservation International, Atherton, QLD, 4883, Australia
Reptilia Foja Mountains Indonesia Papua New Guinea Torricelli Mountains

Abstract

We describe a new species of Cyrtodactylus from lower montane forests on the Torricelli and Foja Mountain ranges of northern New Guinea. Cyrtodactylus boreoclivus sp. nov. can be distinguished from all other described Cyrtodactylus by the combination of moderately large size (SVL 104–109 mm), males with pores extending to the knee and arranged in independent precloacal and femoral series, transversely enlarged subcaudal scales, and dorsal pattern consisting of five to seven indistinct transverse dark bands. The known distribution of this species is similar to many other vertebrate taxa apparently restricted to isolated ranges within the North Papuan Mountains, and supports the biogeographic association of these poorly known upland areas.

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