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Issue: Vol. 3522 No. 1: 19 Oct. 2012
Type: Articles
Published: 2012-10-19
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3522.1.4
Page range: 61–72
Abstract views: 42
PDF downloaded: 1

A new forest-dwelling gecko from Phuket Island, Southern Thailand, related to Cyrtodactylus macrotuberculatus (Squamata: Gekkonidae)

Ranong Marine Fisheries Station, 157 Saphanpla Rd., Paknam, Muang, Ranong 85000, Thailand
Département des Vertébrés Récents, Institut Royal des Sciences naturelles de Belgique, Rue Vautier 29, B-1000 Brussels, Belgium
Nakhonratchasima Zoo, ZPO, 111 M. 1, Ratchasima—Pak Tongchai Rd., Chaimongkol, Mueang Nakhon Ratchasima 30000, Thailand
Khao Phra Thaeo Non-hunting Area, Thalang, Phuket 83110, Thailand
Gibbon Rehabilitation Project, Ban Bangrong, Thalang, Phuket 83110, Thailand
Department of Biology, La Sierra University, 4500 Riverwalk Parkway, Riverside, California, 92515-8247 USA
Reptilia Thai-Malay Peninsula Khao Phra Thaeo Non-hunting Area insular endemism Cyrtodactylus phuketensis sp. nov.

Abstract

We describe a new sylvicolous Cyrtodactylus Gray from Phuket Island, southwestern peninsular Thailand, having a band-ed pattern, precloacal groove, continuous series of enlarged pore-bearing femoro-precloacal scales, and strongly devel-oped tuberculation—characters that distinguish it from all congeneric taxa except C. macrotuberculatus Grismer &Ahmad, 2008 from Peninsular Malaysia, from which it can be separated mainly by having three instead of four dark bands between the limb insertions and a precloacal groove in females.

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