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Issue: Vol. 5683 No. 2: 20 Aug. 2025
Type: Article
Published: 2025-08-20
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5683.2.2
Page range: 189-211
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One more new bent-toed gecko of the Javanese Cyrtodactylus marmoratus complex (Squamata: Gekkonidae) from 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.
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 Palangka Raya; Jl. Yos Sudarso; Palangka Raya City; Central Kalimantan; 74874; Indonesia.
Graduate Program of Animal Bioscience; Department of Biology; Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences; Bogor Agricultural University; Bogor; West Java 16680; 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.
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.
Department of Biology; Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences; Universitas Indonesia; Kampus UI; Depok; 16424; Indonesia.
Department of Biology; Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences; Universitas Indonesia; Kampus UI; Depok; 16424; Indonesia.
Department of Biology and Amphibian and Reptile Diversity Research Center; The University of Texas at Arlington; Arlington; Texas 76019; USA.
Reptilia darmandvillei marmoratus new species Java taxonomy

Abstract

Here, we describe a new species of Cyrtodactylus Gray from East Java (Dampit, Malang), Indonesia that belongs to the C. marmoratus species group. It is a medium-sized (SVL) species with adult males reaching 65.9 mm in males, 64.3 mm in females; characterized by dorsal tubercle absent on brachium, 17–18 dorsal tubercle rows, 38–40 rows of smooth ventrals, precloacal depression present in a deep groove, 15–17 precloacal pores in an inverse Y shape, 7–12 femoral pores, 3–5 poreless femoral scale separated precloacal and femoral pores in males, 2 pairs of post caudal tubercles, second post mentals separated by 5–7 scales, abrupt transition between rows of large and small postfemoral and ventral femoral scales, and no enlarged subcaudals. The new species is genetically divergent from the other Javan congeners of the C. marmoratus complex with genetic divergences (p-distances) ranging from 15.1–24.3% for the mitochondrial ND2 gene. This description brings the number of nominal species of bent-toed gecko in Java to six.

 

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Riyanto, A., Fauzi, M.A., Kadafi, A.M., Munir, M., Hamidy, A., Sidik, I., Firmansyah, R., Lestari, R., Fadhillah, Abinawanto & Smith, + N. (2025) One more new bent-toed gecko of the Javanese Cyrtodactylus marmoratus complex (Squamata: Gekkonidae) from East Java, Indonesia. Zootaxa, 5683 (2), 189–211. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5683.2.2