Dixonius minhlei ZIEGLER, BOTOV, NGUYEN, BAUER, BRENNAN, NGO & NGUYEN, 2016

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Higher Taxa	Gekkonidae, Gekkota, Sauria, Squamata (lizards: geckos)
Subspecies
Common Names
Synonym	Dixonius minhlei ZIEGLER, BOTOV, NGUYEN, BAUER, BRENNAN, NGO & NGUYEN 2016 Dixonius minhlei — DONBUNDIT et al. 2024
Distribution	S Vietnam (Dong Nai Province: Vinh Cuu Nature Reserve) Type locality: Vinh Cuu Nature Reserve, Dong Nai Province, Southern Vietnam (11°22'40"N, 107°03'37"E, 70 m elevation
Reproduction	oviparous (manual imputation, fide Zimin et al. 2022)
Types	Holotype: IEBR A.0802 (male) collected between 28th and 29th of December 2007 by Tao Thien Nguyen and Cuc Thu Ho (Figs. 3–5 in Ziegler et al. 2016): Paratypes: IEBR A.0801 (female), VNMN R.2016.1 (female), VNMN R.2016.2 (female), ZFMK 97745 (female), and ZFMK 97746 (male), same data as for the holotype (Figs. 5–6 in Ziegler et al. 2016)
Diagnosis	Diagnosis: A small gecko with up to 47.5 mm SVL; 7–9 supralabials; 14–15 rows of keeled tubercles on dorsum; 20–23 ventral scale rows; 7 or 8 precloacal pores in males; a canthal stripe running from rostrum through the eye and terminating at back of head; lateral second pair of postmentals maximum one quarter the size of first pair; dorsum olive gray with more or less discernible brownish olive blotches. Additional details (1894 characters) are available for collaborators and contributors. Please contact us for details.
Comment	Sympatry: Acanthosaura lepidogaster, Calotes emma, and Cyrtodactylus cattienensis. Abundance: only known from its original description (Meiri et al. 2017).
References	DONBUNDIT, NATTASUDA; MONTRI SUMONTHA, MANEERAT SUTHANTHANGJAI, WINAI SUTHANTHANGJAI & OLIVIER S. G. PAUWELS 2024. Another new micro-endemic, limestone-dwelling leaf-toed gecko (Gekkonidae: Dixonius) from Phetchaburi Province, western Thailand Zootaxa 5447 (4): 531-546 - 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 - get paper here NGUYEN, T. H., LUU, V. Q., SITTHIVONG, S., NGO, H. T., NGUYEN, T. Q., LE, M. D., & ZIEGLER, T. 2021. A new species of Dixonius (Squamata: Gekkonidae) from Vientiane Capital, Laos. Zootaxa 4965 (2): 351-362 - get paper here NGUYEN, THUONG HUYEN; SALY SITTHIVONG, HANH THI NGO, VINH QUANG LUU, TRUONG QUANG NGUYEN, MINH DUC LE, & THOMAS ZIEGLER 2020. A new species of Dixonius (Squamata: Gekkonidae) from the karst forest of Khammouane Province, central Laos. Zootaxa 4759 (4): 530–542 - get paper here PAUWELS, O. S., DAS, S., KUNYA, K., SUMONTHA, M., DONBUNDIT, N., PAUWELS, T. P., ... & MEESOOK, W. 2025. A new sandstone-dwelling leaf-toed gecko (Gekkonidae: Dixonius hinchangsi) from Khon Kaen Province, northeastern Thailand. Zootaxa 5584 (4): 482-504 - get paper here PAUWELS, OLIVIER S. G.; NONN PANITVONG, KIRATI KUNYA, MONTRI SUMONTHA 2021. A new sandstone-dwelling leaf-toed gecko (Gekkonidae: Dixonius mekongensis) from the Thai-Lao border. Zootaxa 4969: 526–538 - get paper here Ziegler, T.; ANDREAS BOTOV, TAO THIEN NGUYEN, AARON M. BAUER, IAN G. BRENNAN, HANH THI NGO, TRUONG QUANG NGUYEN 2016. First molecular verification of Dixonius vietnamensis Das, 2004 (Squamata: Gekkonidae) with the description of a new species from Vinh Cuu Nature Reserve, Dong Nai Province, Vietnam. Zootaxa 4136 (3): 553–566 - get paper here 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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