Cnemaspis vandeventeri GRISMER, SUMONTHA, COTA, GRISMER, WOOD, PAUWELS & KUNYA, 2010
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Cnemaspis vandeventeri
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| Higher Taxa | Gekkonidae, Gekkota, Sauria, Squamata (lizards: geckos) |
| Subspecies | |
| Common Names | E: VanDeventer’s Rock Gecko Thai: Djing Djok Niew Yaow VanDeventer |
| Synonym | Cnemaspis vandeventeri GRISMER, SUMONTHA, COTA, GRISMER, WOOD, PAUWELS & KUNYA 2010 Gonatodes siamensis SMITH 1925:22 Cnemaspis siamensis — SMITH 1935:72 Cnemaspis siamensis — TAYLOR 1963:743 Cnemaspis siamensis (?) — PAUWELS et al. 2000:129 Cnemaspis vandeventeri — GRISMER et al. 2014: 129 Cnemaspis vandeventeri — COTA et al. 2022 |
| Distribution | CW Thailand (west side of the Tenasserim and the contiguous Phuket Mountains along the west coast of central Peninsular Thailand; from the Khlong Naka Wildlife Sanctuary in the north, southward approximately 58 km to Khlong Had Sompen, Ranong Type locality: Khlong Naka Wildlife Sanctuary (9° 26.0N, 98° 35.0E), Kapur District, Ranong Province; Thailand. |
| Reproduction | oviparous (manual imputation, fide Zimin et al. 2022) |
| Types | Holotype: THNHM 8261, adult male. Paratype. THNHM 8260 has the same collection data as the holotype. |
| Diagnosis | Diagnosis. Adult males reaching 44.7 mm SVL, adult females reaching 40.5 mm SVL; eight or nine supralabials; 7–9 infralabials; gulars, forearm, subtibials, ventrals, subcaudals, and dorsal tubercles keeled; 25–29 paravertebral tubercles; tubercles small, not linearly arranged, absent from lower flanks (Fig. 6); no ventrolateral, caudal tubercles; caudal tubercles do not encircle tail; no tubercles within lateral, caudal furrow; median row of subcaudals keeled, slightly enlarged; four precloacal, pore-bearing scales in males separated medially by non-pore-bearing scales; pores round; 1–3 postcloacal tubercles; shield-like subtibials absent; 24– 29 subdigital lamellae on fourth toe; no dark, longitudinal gular markings or blotches; head not yellow in adult males; no dark patch on shoulder or neck enclosing a white to yellow ocellus; no yellow to white, prescapular crescent or transverse bars on flanks. These differences are summarized across all species in TABLEs 1 and 2 in GRISMER et al. (2010). Additional details (807 characters) are available for collaborators and contributors. Please contact us for details. |
| Comment | Similar species: Cnemaspis vandeventeri is most similar to C. chanardi, C. kamolnorranathi, C. roticanai, and C. siamensis of Peninsular Thailand and was considered conspecific with C. chanardi, and C. siamensis by Smith (1925, 1930, 1935) and (Taylor 1963). Distribution: See map in Grismer 2020: 548 (Fig. 1). |
| Etymology | The specific epithet vandeventeri, a masculine name in the genitive case, is a patronym honoring Mr. Ryan J. VanDeventer of the Department of Biology at La Sierra University, Riverside, California. “Mr. VanDeventer’s passion for, and commitment to the study of biology has been a continual source of enlightenment and inspiration. His heroic efforts to keep La Sierra University’s herpetology laboratory and its occupants up and running smoothly for the last 16 years goes beyond description.” |
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