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Issue: Vol. 1771 No. 1: 19 May. 2008
Type: Article
Published: 2008-05-19
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.1771.1.2
Page range: 16–30
Abstract views: 104
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A new species of Goniurosaurus from Cat Ba Island, Hai Phong, northern Vietnam (Squamata: Eublepharidae)

Cologne Zoo, Riehler Str. 173, D-50735 Köln, Germany
Institute of Ecology and Biological Resources, Vietnamese Academy of Science and Technology, 18 Hoang Quoc Viet St., Hanoi, Vietnam
Muséum d'histoire naturelle, Department of Herpetology and Ichthyology, C.P. 6434, CH-1211 Geneva 6, Switzerland
"Cat Ba Langur Conservation Project" of the Zoological Society for the Conservation of Species and Populations (ZGAP) and Münster Zoo, Cat Ba National Park, Cat Hai - Hai Phong City, Vietnam
Staatliche Naturhistorische Sammlungen Dresden, Museum für Tierkunde, Forschungsstelle, A.B.-Meyer-Bau, Königsbrücker Landstr. 159, D-01109 Dresden, Germany
Reptilia Northern Vietnam Hai Phong Cat Ba Squamata Eublepharidae Goniurosaurus catbaensis sp. n. morphology taxonomy

Abstract

A new species of the gekkonid genus Goniurosaurus is described from Cat Ba Island, Hai Phong, northern Vietnam. G. catbaensis sp. n. is, by its gracile body and limbs, the thin, posteriorly protracted nuchal loop, the three (or four) thin immaculate dorsal body bands between limb insertions, without dark spotting and with dark, narrow border surrounding the body bands, the lack of postrostral (internasal) scales, the presence of a greatly enlarged row of supraorbital tubercles, the outer surface of the upper eyelid being composed of granular scales of about the same size of those on top of head and with a longish row of 6–9 enlarged tubercles, granular body scales, with 8–11 granular scales surrounding the dorsal tubercles, deep axillary pockets, claws being sheathed by four scales, and 16–21 precloacal pores. The new taxon is known only from Cat Ba Island and is the eleventh Goniurosaurus species known and the fourth known species from Vietnam. We provide first data on its natural history and a key to the currently recognized Goniurosaurus species.

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