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Cyrtodactylus intermedius (SMITH, 1917)

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Higher TaxaGekkonidae, Gekkota, Sauria, Squamata (lizards: geckos)
Subspecies 
Common NamesE: Intermediate Bow-fingered Gecko, Cardamon Forest Gecko
G: Kleiner Bogenfingergecko 
SynonymGymnodactylus intermedius SMITH 1917: 221
Cyrtodactylus intermedius — TAYLOR 1963: 734
Gymnodactylus (Cyrtodactylus) intermedius — WERMUTH 1965: 54
Cyrtodactylus intermedius — COX et al. 1998: 86
Cyrtodactylus (Cyrtodactylus) intermedius — RÖSLER 2000: 66
Cyrtodactylus intermedius — DEWAND 2005: 140
Cyrtodactylus intermedius — NGUYEN et al. 2009
Cyrtodactylus intermedius — MURDOCH et al. 2019 
DistributionSE Thailand (Province Chanthaburi, Khao Yai), Cambodia, Koh Chang, Vietnam

Type locality: Khao Sebab, Chantabun, Southeast-Siam.  
Reproductionoviparous 
TypesSyntype: UMMZ 78687, MCZ R-39040, collected by M.A. Smith, March 1916 
DiagnosisDiagnosis: Adult males reaching 78.7 mm SVL; eight supralabials, 9 or 10 infralabials; 31–33 paravertebral tubercles; 19 or 20 longitudinal rows of dorsal tubercles; 42–44 rows of ventral scales; seven or eight expanded subdigital lamellae proximal to the digital inflection, 12–14 unmodified, distal, subdigital lamellae; 19–21 total subdigital lamellae on fourth toe; enlarged femoral and precloacal scales continuous; 23 or 24 enlarged femoral scales; proximal femoral scales one-half the size of distal femorals; 8–10 enlarged precloacal scales with pores on each in males; three rows of enlarged post-precloacal scales; two or three postcloacal tubercles; no pocketing between digits of hind or forefeet; dark pigmented blotches absent on top of head; posterior border of nuchal loop rounded; and four dark body bands (Tables 7-8 in Murdoch et al. 2019). 
CommentGroup: Grismer et al. 2023: 123 (Table 5) provide summary statistics of meristic traits for the members of the intermedius group, consisting of disjunctus, hontreensis, kohrongensis, auralensis, bokorensis, cardamomensis, thylacodactylus, laangensis, septimontium, phuquocensis, and intermedius. 
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