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Cyrtodactylus grismeri NGO VAN TRI, 2008

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Higher TaxaGekkonidae, Gekkota, Sauria, Squamata (lizards: geckos)
Subspecies 
Common NamesE: Grismer’s Bent-toed Gecko
Vietnamese: “Than lan chân ngón Grismer”. 
SynonymCyrtodactylus grismeri NGO VAN TRI 2008
Cyrtodactylus grismeri — NGUYEN et al. 2021 
DistributionSW Vietnam (An Giang)

Type locality: Tuc Dup (= Co To) Rocky Hill, Tri Ton District, An Giang province, southwestern Vietnam (10°22.608’N 104°57.555’E), ca. 100 m in elevation.  
Reproductionoviparous 
TypesHolotype: UNS, Zoological Collection of Faculty of Biology of University of Natural Sciences
(UNS) in Hochiminh City, Vietnam: UNS 0235, an adult female collected by Ngo Van Tri on 9 December 2005. 
DiagnosisDiagnosis: Cyrtodactylus grismeri differs from all congeners in the following combination of characters: a mean SVL of 68.3–95.0; body relatively robust; limbs and digits long, slender; original tail very long (TL/ SVL = 1.24); one pair of enlarged postmental scales in broad contact (Plate 1b); dorsal pattern consisting of thin white–yellow bands on a yellow–brown background; single band on tail; single band on occiput; three narrow white-yellow bands between limb insertions; single band at tail base; no precloacal groove or pores in males; 19–22 slightly enlarged poreless scales anterior vent; 0–3 enlarged scales beneath thighs; 16–19 interorbital scales; 24–27 scales between eye and nostril; 33–38 ventral scales between ventrolateral folds; 18–22 irregular longitudinal rows of weakly-keeled tubercles at midbody between the lateral folds; 31–36 paravertebral tubercles; 20–24 subdigital lamellae on first toe; 16–19 subdigital lamellae on fourth toe; no enlarged scales on heel; one band at the level of first autotomy plane of tail; subcaudal scales enlarged to form broad transverse plates. 
CommentAbundance: only known from its original description (Meiri et al. 2017). 
References
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  • DAVID, PATRICK; TRUONG QUANG NGUYEN, NICOLE SCHNEIDER & THOMAS ZIEGLER 2011. A new species of the genus Cyrtodactylus Gray, 1827 from central Laos (Squamata: Gekkonidae). Zootaxa 2833: 29–40 - get paper here
  • Geissler, P.; Nazarov, R.; Orlov, N.L.; Böhme, W.; My Phung, T.; Nguyen, T.Q. & Ziegler, T. 2009. A new species of the Cyrtodactylus irregularis complex (Squamata: Gekkonidae) from southern Vietnam. Zootaxa 2161: 20–32 - get paper here
  • GRISMER, L. LEE; JESSE L. GRISMER 2017. A re-evaluation of the phylogenetic relationships of the Cyrtodactylus condorensis group (Squamata; Gekkonidae) and a suggested protocol for the characterization of rock-dwelling ecomorphology in Cyrtodactylus. Zootaxa 4300 (4): 486–504 - get paper here
  • GRISMER, L.L. & JACOB SMITH 2023. Additions to the herpetofauna of Hon Son Island, Rach Gia Bay, Kien Giang Province, southern Vietnam with a discussion of syntopy between the granite cave-adapted Bent-toed Gecko Cyrtodactylus eisenmanae and a new Cyrtodactylus of uncertain taxonomic status. Zootaxa 5346 (3): 307–316 - 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, HUY QUANG DO, THOMAS ZIEGLER, 2011. A new Cyrtodactylus (Squamata: Gekkonidae) from Huong Son limestone forest, Hanoi, northern Vietnam. Zootaxa 3129: 39–50 - get paper here
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  • 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
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  • Ngo, Van Tri 2008. Two new cave-dwelling species of Cyrtodactylus Gray (Squamata: Gekkonidae) from Southwestern Vietnam. Zootaxa 1909: 37–51 - get paper here
  • Ngo, Van Tri; Grismer, L. Lee; Grismer, J.L. 2008. A new endemic cave dwelling species of Cyrtodactylus Gray, 1827 (Squamata: Gekkonidae) in Kien Giang Biosphere Reserve, Southwestern Vietnam. Zootaxa 1967: 53–62 - get paper here
  • Nguyen AT, Duong TV, Grismer LL, Poyarkov NA 2021. A new granite cave-dwelling Bent-toed Gecko from Vietnam of the Cyrtodactylus irregularis group (Squamata; Gekkonidae) and a discussion on cave ecomorphology. Vertebrate Zoology, 71: 155-174 - get paper here
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