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Issue: Vol. 2019 No. 1: 23 Feb. 2009
Type: Article
Published: 2009-02-23
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2019.1.3
Page range: 40–56
Abstract views: 45
PDF downloaded: 3

Two new diminutive species of Cnemaspis Strauch 1887 (Squamata: Gekkonidae) from Peninsular Malaysia

Department of Biology, La Sierra University, 4500 Riverwalk Parkway, Riverside, California, 92515-8247 USA Institute for Environment and Development (LESTARI), Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, 43600 Bangi, Selangor Darul Ehsan, Malaysia
Institute for Environment and Development (LESTARI), Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, 43600 Bangi, Selangor Darul Ehsan, Malaysia School of Environment and Natural Resource Sciences, Faculty of Science and Technology, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, 43600 Bangi, Selangor Darul Ehsan, Malaysia
Institute for Environment and Development (LESTARI), Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, 43600 Bangi, Selangor Darul Ehsan, Malaysia
Institute of Biological Sciences, Faculty of Science, Universiti Malaya, 50603 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
School of Distance Education, Universiti Sains Malaysia, 11800 Penang, Malaysia
Department of Biology, Villanova University, 800 Lancaster Avenue, Villanova, Pennsylvania 92108 USA.
Department of Biology, Villanova University, 800 Lancaster Avenue, Villanova, Pennsylvania 92108 USA
Reptilia Malaysia Langkawi Bukit Larut Karst Gekkonidae Cnemaspis new species taxonomy resource partitioning

Abstract

Two new diminutive species of Cnemaspis are described from Peninsular Malaysia. Cnemaspis monachorum sp. nov. is a karst-dwelling species endemic to Pulau Langkawi, Kedah and is the smallest species of Southeast Asian Cnemaspis to date. Cnemaspis pseudomcguirei sp. nov. is a montane species known only from Bukit Larut, Perak in the Bintang Mountain Range and is very similar in appearance to the considerably larger, sympatric species C. mcguirei. Evidence supporting a working hypothesis of resource partitioning between sympatric species pairs of Cnemaspis on the basis of size and microhabitat preference is presented.

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