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Issue: Vol. 772 No. 1: 14 Dec. 2004
Type: Articles
Published: 2004-12-14
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.772.1.1
Page range: 1–11
Abstract views: 32
PDF downloaded: 3

Cyrtodactylus thirakhupti (Squamata: Gekkonidae), a new cave-dwelling gecko from southern Thailand

Department of Recent Vertebrates, Institut Royal des Sciences naturelles de Belgique, 29 Rue Vautier, B-1000 Brussels, BELGIUM
Department of Biology, Villanova University, 800 Lancaster Avenue, Villanova, Pennsylvania 19085, USA
Ranong Marine Fisheries Station, 157 M. 1, Saphan-Pla Road, Paknam, Muang, Ranong 85000, THAILAND
Queen Saovabha Memorial Institute, Thai Red Cross Society, 1871 Rama IV Road, Bangkok 10330, THAILAND
Reptiles Thailand Surat Thani Reptilia Gekkonidae Cyrtodactylus thirakhupti new species taxonomy cave-dwelling

Abstract

A new cave-dwelling species of Cyrtodactylus is described from Khao Sonk in Surat Thani Province, southern peninsular Thailand. The new species is characterized by its slender body (snoutvent length to at least 80 mm) with a banded pattern, elongate tail and digits, low number (14) of rows of dorsal tubercles, absence of precloacal groove, and enlarged series of precloacal and femoral scales, all lacking pores. It is the third species of cave-dwelling Cyrtodactylus recorded from Thailand.

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