Cyrtodactylus zugi OLIVER, TJATURADI, MUMPUNI, KREY & RICHARDS, 2008

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Higher Taxa	Gekkonidae, Gekkota, Sauria, Squamata (lizards: geckos)
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Common Names
Synonym	Cyrtodactylus zugi OLIVER, TJATURADI, MUMPUNI, KREY & RICHARDS 2008 Cyrtodactylus zugi — TALLOWIN et al. 2018
Distribution	Indonesia (New Guinea: Raja Ampat Archipelago, Papua Barat Province) Type locality: Yakut Camp, Batanta Island, Raja Ampat Archipelago, Papua Barat Province, Indonesia (00°53.749’S, 130°38.498’E; elevation ~ 10 m).
Reproduction	oviparous
Types	Holotype: MZB lace 5574, adult female with entire original tail, detached at base during collection, collected on large tree trunk in lowland rainforest.
Diagnosis	Diagnosis: Cyrtodactulus zugi sp. nov. can be distinguished from all other Melanesian Cyrtodactylus by the combination of large size (SVL up to 159 mm), robust build (HW/SVL 0.21–0.22), precloacal groove absent, subcaudal scales less than twice width of lateral and dorsal caudal scales, relatively small rounded tubercles along the lateral fold, a series of enlarged ventral tubercles present below the lateral fold, enlarged tubercles on ventral surface of head confined to the region around the angle of the lower jaw, moderate number of enlarged precloacal and femoral scales (>28) arranged in straight or almost straight series, and dorsal colouration consisting of 3–4 very dark greyish-brown indistinct dorsal blotchess between the head and tail.
Comment	Distribution: C. zugi is the second species of Cyrtodactylus known with certainty only from the Raja Ampat Islands. Similar species: The morphology of the new species places it within the C. loriae group and suggests that it is closely related to Cyrtodactylus irianjayaensis.
Etymology	Named in honour of George Zug from the Smithsonian Institution in recognition of his vast contributions to our knowledge of the systematics and ecology of the herpetofauna of Melanesia and Asia. For biographical details see Mitchell 2018 and Zug in Schneider & Trueb 2021).
References	Beolens, Bo; Michael Watkins, and Michael Grayson 2011. The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, USA - get paper here Mitchell, Joseph C. 2018. George Robert Zug. Copeia 106 (2): 388-395 - get paper here OLIVER , PAUL; PAUL EDGAR, MUMPUNI, DJOKO T. ISKANDAR & RON LILLEY 2009. A new species of bent-toed gecko (Cyrtodactylus: Gekkonidae) from Seram Island, Indonesia. Zootaxa 2115: 47-55 - get paper here Oliver PM, Richards SJ, Mumpuni, Rösler H 2016. The Knight and the King: two new species of giant bent- toed gecko (Cyrtodactylus, Gekkonidae, Squamata) from northern New Guinea, with comments. ZooKeys 562: 105–130, doi: 10.3897/zookeys.562.6052 - get paper here Oliver, P.; Tjaturadi, B.; Mumpuni; Krey, K. & Richards, S. 2008. A new species of large Cyrtodactylus (Squamata: Gekkonidae) from Melanesia. Zootaxa 1894: 59–68 - get paper here Schneider, Greg; Trueb, Linda (eds.) 2021. Letters from Michigan Herpetology. The University of Michigan Museum of Zoology, Special Publication No. 3; ISBN 978-1-946681-02-7 - get paper here Tallowin, O. J. S., Tamar, K., Meiri, S., Allison, A., Kraus, F., Richards, S. J., & Oliver, P. M. 2018. Early insularity and subsequent mountain uplift were complementary drivers of diversification in a Melanesian lizard radiation (Gekkonidae: Cyrtodactylus). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 125: 29–39 - get paper here
External links	IUCN Red List National Center for Biotechnology Information http://www.mapress.com/zootaxa/2008/f/z01894p068f.pdf http://www.enature.com/fieldguide/showSpeciesSH.asp?curGroupID=7&shapeID… Google images

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