Cyrtodactylus battalensis KHAN, 1993
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Cyrtodactylus battalensis
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| Higher Taxa | Gekkonidae, Gekkota, Sauria, Squamata (lizards: geckos) |
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| Common Names | E: Reticulate Plump-bodied gecko |
| Synonym | Cyrtodactylus battalensis KHAN 1993 Tenuidactylus battalensis — DAS 1994 Cyrtopodion (Tenuidactylus) battalensis — RÖSLER 2000: 68 Cyrtodactylus battalensis — KHAN 2003 Siwaligekko battalensis — KHAN 2003 Cyrtopodion battalense — FROST 2007 (pers. comm.) Cyrtodactylus battalensis — BAUER et al. 2013 Cyrtodactylus battalensis — AGARWAL et al. 2014 Swaligekko battalensis — ALTAF et al. 2021 (in error) |
| Distribution | Pakistan (Mansehra) Type locality: Karakoram Highway, near Batgram Town, District Mansehra, NW Frontier Province, Pakistan (34° 40’ N, 73° 03’ E), elevation 800 m. |
| Reproduction | oviparous |
| Types | Holotype: BMNH 1990.2 |
| Diagnosis | Diagnosis: A large species of Cyrtodactylus geckos, with dorsal granular scales of body interspersed with scattered obtusely keeled flattish "tubercles"; 50-52 scales across midabdomen; 199-205 scales along the midventrum of body, from postmental to anterior of vent; 9-10 preanal pores arranged in an arch, no femoral pores; tail without marked segmentation, with two rows of small rounded caudal keelless tubercles well marked in anterior half of the tail, on each dorsolateral side; subcaudals small in several rows. The new species Cyrtodactylus battalensis (Fig. 1) is closest in body form and pholidosis to the circum-Himalayan stock of southeast Asian cyrtodactylid geckos; C. tibetinus, C. mintoni and C. dattanensis. However, C. battalensis has relatively longer body and tail, a wider range of supralabials, interorbitals, scales across midabdomen and along body midventrum (Table 1). The dorsal pattern of body has very irregular dark transverse bands, narrower than the interspaces, forming a reticulation by the union of irregular borders of the bands with each other. However, C. dattanensis comes closer to the new species is number of interorbitals, and scales the midabdomen. C. dattanensis and C. tibetinus both have a banded dorsal pattern, but the bands are broader than the interspaces, while in C. mintoni they are much narrower than the interspaces as in C. battalensis but are broken in spots on the sides instead of forming a reticulum. (Khan 1993) |
| Comment | Synonymy: T. batalensis [sic] in KHAN 1993: 220 is actually Cyrtopodion (T.) baturensis fide RÖSLER 2000. Type Species: Cyrtodactylus battalensis KHAN 1993 is the type species of the genus Siwaligekko Khan 2003. For a comparison of characters among Siwaligekko, Altigekko, Indogekko, and Cyrtopodion, see Khan 2009. Abundance: only known from the type locality (Meiri et al. 2017). |
| Etymology | Named after the Battal mountain Range in which the type locality is situated. |
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