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Issue: Vol. 4524 No. 5: 26 Nov. 2018
Type: Article
Published: 2018-11-25
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4524.5.1
Page range: 501–535
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Six new Cyrtodactylus (Squamata: Gekkonidae) from northeast India

Department of Biology, Villanova University, 800 Lancaster Avenue, Villanova, Pennsylvania 19085, USA Centre for Ecological Sciences, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore 560012, India National Centre for Biological Sciences, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Bangalore 560065, India
School of Biology and Environmental Science, University College Dublin, Belfield, Dublin 4, Ireland Department of Life Sciences, The Natural History Museum, London SW7 5BD, UK
National Centre for Biological Sciences, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Bangalore 560065, India NIDUS, 1903, Shubh Kalyan, Nanded, Pune, 411041, India
508, 8 B Cross, Asha Township, Doddagubbi village, Bangalore, 560077, India
Department of Biology, Villanova University, 800 Lancaster Avenue, Villanova, Pennsylvania 19085, USA
Reptilia Cyrtodactylus khasiensis endemic species morphology Myanmar ND2 taxonomy

Abstract

We use mitochondrial sequence data to identify divergent lineages within the gekkonid genus Cyrtodactylus in northeast India and use morphological data to describe six new species from within the Indo-Burma clade of Cyrtodactylus. The new species share an irregular colour pattern but differ from described species from the region in morphology and mitochondrial sequence data (>11 % uncorrected pairwise sequence divergence). Three new species are from along the Brahmaputra River and three are from mountains south of the Brahmaputra, including the largest Cyrtodactylus from India and the fifth gecko to be described from a major Indian city, Guwahati.

 

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