Skip to main content Skip to main navigation menu Skip to site footer
Type: Article
Published: 2015-09-23
Page range: 495–516
Abstract views: 63
PDF downloaded: 1

Two new species of Cyrtodactylus (Squamata: Gekkonidae) from the Southern Bukit Barisan Range of Sumatra and an estimation of their phylogeny

Department of Biological Sciences; Broward College; 3501 S.W. Davie Road; Davie, FL 33314;USA.
The Amphibian and Reptile Diversity Research Center and Department of Biology; University of Texas at Arlington; 501 S. Nedderman Drive; Arlington, TX 76010; USA
Department of Biological Sciences; Broward College; 3501 S.W. Davie Road; Davie, FL 33314;USA.
Laboratory of Herpetology; Museum Zoologicum Bogoriense; Research Center for Biology, Indonesian Institute of Sciences–LIPI; Jl. Raya Jakarta Bogor km 46; Cibinong, West Java, 16911; Indonesia
Department of Biology; Universitas Brawijaya; Jl. Veteran; Malang, East Java, 65145; Indonesia
The Amphibian and Reptile Diversity Research Center and Department of Biology; University of Texas at Arlington; 501 S. Nedderman Drive; Arlington, TX 76010; USA
Reptilia Bent-toed gecko Cyrtodactylus psarops sp. nov. Cyrtodactylus semicinctus sp. nov. Cyrtodactylus semenanjungensis Jambi Kerinci Lampung Sumatera Selatan phylogenetics

Abstract

We describe Cyrtodactylus psarops sp. nov. and C. semicinctus sp. nov., two new species of bent-toed geckos from montane forests in the southern Bukit Barisan Range of Sumatra, Indonesia. The new species are closely related to one another and to C. semenanjungensis, a lowland species currently known only from Peninsular Malaysia. Three characters of the new species immediately distinguish them from most congeners in the Sunda Region: they lack transversely enlarged subcaudals, have a precloacal depression, and have a greatly enlarged scale positioned at the apex of a continuous series of femoral and precloacal pore-bearing scales. They differ from one another in cephalic pattern, tuberculation of the brachium, and in numbers of cloacal tubercles, dorsal bands, and ventrals in a transverse row. The greatly enlarged scale at the apex of the precloacal pores appears to be a rare apomorphy of these two species and C. agamensis.