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Cyrtodactylus celatus KATHRINER, BAUER, O’SHEA, SANCHEZ & KAISER, 2014

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Higher TaxaGekkonidae, Gekkota, Sauria, Squamata (lizards: geckos)
Subspecies 
Common Names 
SynonymCyrtodactylus celatus KATHRINER, BAUER, O'SHEA, SANCHEZ & KAISER 2014
Gymnodactylus (?) marmoratus (KUHL) — SMITH 1927: 201
Gymnodactylus marmoratus DUMÉRIL & BIBRON (sic) — MERTENS 1930: 239 (part)
Gymnodactylus wetariensis Dunn — BRONGERSMA 1953: 174 (part)
Cyrtodactylus marmoratus — BAUER & HENLE 1994: 27 (part)
Cyrtodactylus celatus — RÖSLER 2016: 11 
DistributionIndonesia (West Timor)

Type locality: Djamplong, 55 kilometres by road from Kupang,” now Tjamplong (or Camplong), West Timor, Nusa Tenggara Timur Province, Indonesia  
Reproductionoviparous (manual imputation, fide Zimin et al. 2022) 
TypesHolotype: BMNH 1926.10.30.45 (Figs. 2–5), an adult female collected by Malcolm Smith between 26 February and 29 April 1924. 
DiagnosisDiagnosis: Cyrtodactylus celatus is a small (SVL of only known specimen 38.4 mm) species of Cyrtodactylus, distinguished from all other Sunda Shelf species by having large, elongate, conical, keeled tubercles on body, limbs, and tail; elongate, tubercles absent on the ventrolateral body fold and on the ventrolateral margin of the tail; 16 longitudinal rows of tubercles at midbody; 42 ventral scales between the ventrolateral folds; no transversely enlarged, median, subcaudal scales, uniform granular caudal scales; proximal subdigital lamellae transversely expanded; 17 subdigital lamellae (seven basal + ten distal) on the fourth toe; no abrupt transition between postfemoral and ventral femoral scales; no digital webbing; tail round in cross-section; ventrolateral caudal fringe lacking; no white reticulations on the head; and faint, squarish blotches on the body. 
CommentAbundance: only known from the type specimen (Meiri et al. 2017). 
References
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  • Brongersma, L.D. 1953. Gymnodactylus marmoratus (Gray). Proceedings, Koninklijke Nederlandsche Akademie van Wetenschappen, 62: 172–175
  • HARTMANN, LUKAS; SVEN MECKE, MAX KIECKBUSCH, FELIX MADER, HINRICH KAISER 2016. A new species of bent-toed gecko, genus Cyrtodactylus Gray, 1827 (Reptilia: Squamata: Gekkonidae), from Jawa Timur Province, Java, Indonesia, with taxonomic remarks on C. fumosus (Müller, 1895). Zootaxa 4067 (5): 552–568 - get paper here
  • KATHRINER, ANDREW; AARON M. BAUER, MARK O’SHEA, CAITLIN SANCHEZ, HINRICH KAISER 2014. Hiding in plain sight: a new species of bent-toed gecko (Squamata: Gekkonidae: Cyrtodactylus) from West Timor, collected by Malcolm Smith in 1924. Zootaxa 3900 (4): 555–568 - get paper here
  • Kemp, Christopher. 2017. The Lost Species: Great Expeditions in the Collections of Natural History Museums. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, xxii, 250 pp. [ISBN: 9780226386218]
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  • MECKE, SVEN; MAX KIECKBUSCH, LUKAS HARTMANN, HINRICH KAISER 2016. Historical considerations and comments on the type series of Cyrtodactylus marmoratus Gray, 1831, with an updated comparative table for the bent-toed geckos of the Sunda Islands and Sulawesi. Zootaxa 4175 (4): 353–365 - get paper here
  • Meiri, Shai; Aaron M. Bauer, Allen Allison, Fernando Castro-Herrera, Laurent Chirio, Guarino Colli, Indraneil Das, Tiffany M. Doan, Frank Glaw, Lee L. Grismer, Marinus Hoogmoed, Fred Kraus, Matthew LeBreton, Danny Meirte, Zoltán T. Nagy, Cristiano d 2017. Extinct, obscure or imaginary: the lizard species with the smallest ranges. Diversity and Distributions 24 (2): 262-273 - get paper here
  • Mertens, R. 1930. Die Amphibien und Reptilien der Inseln Bali, Lombok, Sumbawa und Flores. Senck. Naturf. Gesell., Frankfurt am Main, Abhandl. 42(3): 117-344.
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