Cyrtodactylus hekouensis ZHANG, LIU, BERNSTEIN, WANG & YUAN, 2021
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Cyrtodactylus hekouensis
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| Higher Taxa | Gekkonidae, Gekkota, Sauria, Squamata (lizards: geckos) |
| Subspecies | |
| Common Names | E: Hekou bent-toes gecko Chinese: 河口裸趾虎 |
| Synonym | Cyrtodactylus hekouensis ZHANG, LIU, BERNSTEIN, WANG & YUAN 2021 |
| Distribution | China (Daweishan National Nature Reserve, Honghe Autonomous Prefecture, Yunnan Province) Type locality: Daweishan National Nature Reserve, Honghe Autonomous Prefecture, Yunnan Province, China |
| Reproduction | |
| Types | Holotype: SWFU002507, adult male, collected by Yinpeng ZHANG, 07/24/2018, from Daweishan National Nature Reserve, Hekou County, Honghe Autonomous Prefecture, Yunnan Province, China. Paratypes: SWFU001578, adult male collected by Zhiyong YUAN; SWFU002879, SWFU002880, SWFU002881, all gravid female adults collected by Zhiyong YUAN and Yinpeng ZHANG, 07.24.2018. Collected from Daweishan National Nature Reserve, Honghe Autonomous Prefecture, Yunnan Province, China |
| Diagnosis | Diagnosis: A moderate sized Cyrtodactylus, with a slender trunk and bent toes, C. hekouensis is distinguished from other described Cyrtodactylus species by the combined characteristics: maximum SVL 92.3 mm and TL 98.5 mm; 11–12 supralabials; 11–12 infralabials; 36–57 scale rows between the fifth supralabials; 10–13 dorsal tubercles rows; 3 postnasals on blunt and smooth front snout; precloacal-femoral pores in a continuous series of 33–39 (females with pitted scales) located under vent/cloaca and each side of thigh in both sexes; precloacal groove absent; 3/3 postcloacal tubercles; subdigital lamellae under the fourth finger 21 or 22, under the fourth toe 20–23; smooth midbody with smooth venter and tuberculate dorsal scale rows, tubercles from head to tail base; dorsal transverse. (Zhang et al. 2021) |
| Comment | |
| Etymology | The species is named after the county of the type locality (“Hekou”= 河口in Chinese). |
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