Cyrtodactylus agamensis (BLEEKER, 1860)

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Higher Taxa	Gekkonidae, Gekkota, Sauria, Squamata (lizards: geckos)
Subspecies
Common Names	E: Agam Bow-fingered Gecko
Synonym	Gymnodactylus agamensis BLEEKER 1860: 328 Cyrtodactylus agamensis — RÖSLER et al. 2007 Cyrtodactylus agamensis — RÖSLER & GLAW 2008 Cyrtodactylus agamensis — HARVEY et al. 2015 Cyrtodactylus agamensis — MILTO & BEZMAN-MOSEYKO 2021
Distribution	Indonesia (Sumatra: Maninjau, Agam) Type locality: Agam, Sumatra.
Reproduction	oviparous (manual imputation, fide Zimin et al. 2022)
Types	Holotype: BMNH 1946.9.7.44, female, E.W.A. Lüdeking, 1859
Diagnosis	Diagnosis: Adult males reaching 74.9 mm SVL, adult females reaching 86.8 mm SVL; 10–13 supralabials, 9–12 infralabials; tubercles of dorsum moderate in size with no intervening smaller tubercles; tubercles on ventral surfaces of forelimbs, in gular region absent, tubercles present in ventrolateral body fold; 31–37 paravertebral tubercles; 17–21 longitudinal rows of dorsal tubercles; 50–67 rows of ventral scales; 21–26 subdigital lamellae on 4th toe; 9–10 femoro-precloacal pores in males; dorsum not bearing a scattered pattern of white tubercles; 6–7 dark body bands with uneven margins often broken into separate spots; 10–12 dark, caudal bands on original tail; white caudal bands in adults infused with dark pigment (Table 1, Milto & Bezman-Moseyko 2021).
Comment	RÖSLER et al. 2007 revalidated Cyrtodactylus agamensis but their diagnosis of this species is fairly vague (differs from other species ”by being smaller in SVL and having more ventrals...” etc.). Their key states “67” ventrals” for agamensis but this seems to be based on a single female. Abundance: Cyrtodactylus agamensis is known from a single female, the holotype (Rösler et al. 2007, Hartmann et al. 2016, Meiri et al. 2017) and 6 additional specimens found by Milto & Bezman-Moseyko 2021. Distribution: the IUCN assessment by Iskandar (2021) has it all over Sumatra and western offshore islands.
References	Bleeker, P. 1860. Reptilien van Agam. Natuurkundig Tijdschrift voor Nederlandsch Indie, Batavia, 20: 325-329 - get paper here HARTMANN, LUKAS; SVEN MECKE, MAX KIECKBUSCH, FELIX MADER, HINRICH KAISER 2016. A new species of bent-toed gecko, genus Cyrtodactylus Gray, 1827 (Reptilia: Squamata: Gekkonidae), from Jawa Timur Province, Java, Indonesia, with taxonomic remarks on C. fumosus (Müller, 1895). Zootaxa 4067 (5): 552–568 - get paper here HARVEY, MICHAEL B.; KYLE A. O’CONNELL, GABRIEL BARRAZA, AWAL RIYANTO, NIA KURNIAWAN & ERIC N. SMITH 2015. Two new species of Cyrtodactylus (Squamata: Gekkonidae) from the Southern Bukit Barisan Range of Sumatra and an estimation of their phylogeny. Zootaxa 4020 (3): 495–516 - get paper here MECKE, SVEN; MAX KIECKBUSCH, LUKAS HARTMANN, HINRICH KAISER 2016. Historical considerations and comments on the type series of Cyrtodactylus marmoratus Gray, 1831, with an updated comparative table for the bent-toed geckos of the Sunda Islands and Sulawesi. Zootaxa 4175 (4): 353–365 - 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 Milto, K.D. and O.S. Bezman-Moseyko 2021. Herpetofauna of the Maninjau caldera, West Sumatra, Indonesia, with special account to geckos. Proceedings of the Zoological Institute of the Russian Academy of Science 325(4): 430–446. - get paper here Rösler, H. & Glaw, F. 2008. A new species of Cyrtodactylus Gray, 1827 (Squamata: Gekkonidae) from Malaysia including a literature survey of mensural and meristic data in the genus. Zootaxa 1729: 8–22 - get paper here Rösler, H. & S. J. Richards & R. Günther 2007. Bemerkungen zur Morphologie und Taxonomie der östlich der Wallacea vorkommenden Geckos der Gattung Cyrtodactylus GRAY, 1827, mit Beschreibungen von zwei neuen Arten (Reptilia: Sauria: Gekkonidae). Salamandra 43 (4): 193-230 - 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
External links	IUCN Red List Google images

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