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Issue: Vol. 5570 No. 1: 16 Jan. 2025
Type: Article
Published: 2025-01-16
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5570.1.3
Page range: 81-99
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A New Species Belonging to the Cyrtodactylus sadleiri Complex (Squamata: Gekkonidae) Has Been Discovered in East Java, Indonesia

Herpetology Research Group; Research Center for Biosystematics and Evolution; National Research and Innovation Agency (BRIN); Widyasatwaloka Building; Jl. Raya Jakarta Bogor km 46; Cibinong; West Java; 16911; Indonesia; Department of Biology; Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences; Universitas Indonesia; Kampus UI; Depok; 16424; Indonesia
Herpetology Research Group; Research Center for Biosystematics and Evolution; National Research and Innovation Agency (BRIN); Widyasatwaloka Building; Jl. Raya Jakarta Bogor km 46; Cibinong; West Java; 16911; Indonesia
Herpetology Research Group; Research Center for Biosystematics and Evolution; National Research and Innovation Agency (BRIN); Widyasatwaloka Building; Jl. Raya Jakarta Bogor km 46; Cibinong; West Java; 16911; Indonesia
Department of Biology; La Sierra University; 4500 Riverwalk Parkway; Riverside; California 92515; USA; Institute for Tropical Biology and Conservation; University Malaysia Sabah; Jalan UMS; 88400; Kota Kinabalu; Malaysia; Department of Herpetology; San Diego Natural History Museum; PO Box 121390; San Diego; California; 92112; USA
Department of Biology; Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences; Universitas Indonesia; Kampus UI; Depok; 16424; Indonesia
Reptilia phylogeny C. darmandvillei East Java taxonomy

Abstract

We describe a new species of Cyrtodactylus Gray from East Java (Maospati and Mojokerto), Indonesia that belongs to the C. sadlieri complex within the C. darmandvillei species group. It is a medium sized (SVL) species with adult males reaching 67.2 mm and females 59.0 mm, dorsal tubercles absent on brachium, present on antebrachium and along the ventrolateral fold; 18–20 irregular dorsal tubercle rows at midbody; 26–28 paravertebral tubercles per series; 28–34 ventral scale rows across belly; precloacal groove present with 32–37 precloacofemoral pores in males; enlarged femoral and precloacal scales arranged in a continuous series; abrupt transition between the enlarged femorals and the adjacent scales on the posterior margin of the thigh; subequal median subcaudal scales not transversely enlarged. The new species is genetically divergent from the other Javan congeners of the C. darmandvillei groupwith genetic divergences (p-distances) ranging from 7.7–12.1% for the mitochondrial ND2 gene.

 

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