Cyrtodactylus darevskii NAZAROV, POYARKOV, ORLOV, NGUYEN, MILTO, MARTYNOV, KONSTANTINOV & CHULISOV, 2014
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Cyrtodactylus darevskii
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| Higher Taxa | Gekkonidae, Gekkota, Sauria, Squamata (lizards: geckos) |
| Subspecies | |
| Common Names | E: Darevsky’s Bent-toed Gecko |
| Synonym | Cyrtodactylus darevskii NAZAROV, POYARKOV, ORLOV, NGUYEN, MILTO, MARTYNOV, KONSTANTINOV & CHULISOV 2014 |
| Distribution | Laos (Khammouane) Type locality: environs of Na Phao Village, Boulapha District, Khammouane Province, Laos (17°34 ́57.1 ́ ́N, 105°44 ́37.3 ́ ́E; elevation 170 m a.s.l.) |
| Reproduction | oviparous (manual imputation, fide Zimin et al. 2022) |
| Types | Holotype: ZMMU R-13980, Adult male (field number F185) collected on 18 June 2009 by Nikolai Orlov, Sang Ngoc Nguyen and Konstantin Milto. Paratypes. Three adult males (ZMMU R-13981- 1; 13981-2 (FN 186, 187); ZIN 28247 (FN 256), two adult females (ZMMU 13981-3 (1999); ZIN 28248 (FN 188) and one subadult ZIN 28249 (FN 189). All members of the type series with the same collection data as the holotype. |
| Diagnosis | Diagnosis: A large sized, slender Cyrtodactylus with a maximum SVL of 100 mm; the new species is distinguished from all congeners by the following morphological characters. Dorsal color pattern consisting of narrow dark nuchal band and 4–5 dark transversal breaking bands with light yellowish edge between limbs and 8–10 transversal dark bands on the tail. Dorsal surface of head very light brown, sometimes with a yellowish tinge, with few small irregular roundish dark brown spots. Dorsal of head and temporal region, body, hind limbs and base of tail covered by rounded, keeled tubercles, which are 2–3 times larger than the surrounding scales. Ventrals in 38–46 longitudinal rows at midbody, lateral folds are not strongly developed. Continuous series of 38–44 precloacal and femoral pores in males and 24–34 precloacal and femoral pores in females. Subcaudals in transversally enlarged median row, flat, smooth, imbricate. No enlarged keeled tubercles on the dorsal surface of the tail; 4–5 postcloacal spurs in both sexes. |
| Comment | Abundance: only known from its original description (Meiri et al. 2017). |
| Etymology | Cyrtodactylus darevskii sp. nov. is named for the honor of the famous Ukrainian-born Russian herpetologist Ilya Sergeevich Darevsky (1924–2009). |
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