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Cyrtodactylus jaegeri LUU, CALAME, BONKOWSKI, NGUYEN & ZIEGLER, 2014

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Higher TaxaGekkonidae, Gekkota, Sauria, Squamata (lizards: geckos)
Subspecies 
Common Names 
SynonymCyrtodactylus jaegeri LUU, CALAME, BONKOWSKI, NGUYEN & ZIEGLER 2014
Cyrtodactylus jaegeri — STUART et al. in WCS 2024 
DistributionLaos (Khammouane)

Type locality: karst wall of a karstic massif, ca. 1.5 m above the forest floor, in a mixed secondary forest of hardwoods and shrubs near Thakhek Town (17°27.44’N, 104°55.44’E), Khammouane Province, Laos, at an elevation of 170 m elevation  
Reproductionoviparous (manual imputation, fide Zimin et al. 2022) 
TypesHolotype: IEBR A.2013.55, adult male, collected on 29 April 2012 by Thomas Calame and Peter Jäger; Paratype. NUOL R–2013.1, adult female, the same collection data as the holotype. 
DiagnosisDiagnosis: A moderately sized Cyrtodactylus with a maximum SVL reaching 68.5 mm, distinguished from its congeners by a combination of the following characters: 1) dorsal pattern consisting of a dark nuchal loop and four narrow brown body bands between limb insertions; 3) dorsal tubercles in 15–17 irregular rows; 4) ventrals in 31– 32 longitudinal rows at midbody; 5) lateral skin folds present with interspersed tubercles; 6) precloacal–femoral pores 44 in the male, in a continuous series; 7) enlarged femoral scales and precloacal scales present; 8) postcloacal tubercles 3–6; and 9) subcaudals transversely enlarged.
 
CommentComparisons. See Table 2 on LUU et al. 2014.

Abundance: only known from its original description (Meiri et al. 2017). 
References
  • Kwet, Axel 2015. Liste der im Jahr 2014 neu beschriebenen Reptilien. Terraria-Elaphe 2015 (3): 50-64 - get paper here
  • LUU, VINH QUANG; THOMAS CALAME, Truong QUang Nguyen, MICHAEL BONKOWSKI & THOMAS ZIEGLER 2015. A new species of Cyrtodactylus (Squamata: Gekkonidae) from the limestone forest of Khammouane Province, central Laos. Zootaxa 4058 (3): 388–402 - get paper here
  • LUU, VINH QUANG; Truong QUang Nguyen, MINH DUC LE, MICHAEL BONKOWSKI, THOMAS ZIEGLER 2016. A new species of karst-dwelling bent-toed gecko (Squamata: Gekkonidae) from Khammouane Province, central Laos. Zootaxa 4079 (1): 087–102 - get paper here
  • LUU, VINH QUANG;THOMAS CALAME, MICHAEL BONKOWSKI, TRUONG QUANG NGUYEN & THOMAS ZIEGLER 2014. A new species of Cyrtodactylus (Squamata: Gekkonidae) from Khammouane Province, Laos. Zootaxa 3760 (1): 054–066 - 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
  • WCS 2024. Wildlife in Lao PDR, 2024 Status Report. Vientiane; Wildlife Conservation Society Lao PDR Program
  • Zimin, A., Zimin, S. V., Shine, R., Avila, L., Bauer, A., Böhm, M., Brown, R., Barki, G., de Oliveira Caetano, G. H., Castro Herrera, F., Chapple, D. G., Chirio, L., Colli, G. R., Doan, T. M., Glaw, F., Grismer, L. L., Itescu, Y., Kraus, F., LeBreton 2022. A global analysis of viviparity in squamates highlights its prevalence in cold climates. Global Ecology and Biogeography, 00, 1–16 - get paper here
 
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