Cyrtodactylus phuquocensis NGO VAN TRI, GRISMER & GRISMER, 2010
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Higher Taxa | Gekkonidae, Gekkota, Sauria, Squamata (lizards: geckos) |
Subspecies | |
Common Names | E: Phu Quoc bent–toed gecko Vietnamese: “Than lan chan ngon Phu Quoc” |
Synonym | Cyrtodactylus phuquocensis NGO VAN TRI, GRISMER & GRISMER 2010 |
Distribution | SW Vietnam (Kien Giang: Phu Quoc National Park) Type locality: Phu Quoc Island, Phu Quoc National Park, Kien Giang Biosphere Reserve, Kien Giang province, southwestern Vietnam at 10°17.452’N 104°02.380’E at approximately 100 m elevation. |
Reproduction | oviparous (manual imputation, fide Zimin et al. 2022) |
Types | Holotype: LSUHC 05975, an adult male collected by Ngo Van Tri on 2 February 2007. |
Diagnosis | Diagnosis. A moderately sized Cyrtodactylus, adult SVL 80.0–85.8mm; body slender; limbs and digits long, slender; original tail long with 9 or 10 dusky white rings; one pair of enlarged postmental scales in broad contact; 16–18 rows of weekly keeled dorsal tubercles; 22–25 paravertebral tubercles; 42–46 ventral scales between ventrolateral folds; no precloacal groove; 7–9 pore-bearing precloacal scales in contact with 10 or 11 enlarged femoral scales; enlarged scales on heel; 18–20 subdigital lamellae on first toe; 15–18 subdigital lamellae on fourth toe; and dorsal caudal tubercles extending 57.8–75% down length of tail. Subcaudal scales forming large, transverse plates. Five dorsal body bands, narrowest in middle of dorsum, edged by white tubercles between limb insertions; single broad band at base of tail on yellowish brown ground color. Diagnosis. Adult males reaching 81.6 mm SVL, adult females reaching 85.8 mm SVL; eight supralabials, 9 or 10 infralabials; 30 or 31 paravertebral tubercles; 18 or 19 longitudinal rows of dorsal tubercles; 40–42 rows of ventral scales; five or six expanded subdigital lamellae proximal to the digital inflection, 12 or 13 unmodified, distal, subdigital lamellae; 17–19 total subdigital lamellae on fourth toe; enlarged femoral and precloacal scales continuous; 27 or 28 enlarged femoral scales; proximal femoral scales less than half the size as distal femorals; six or seven enlarged precloacal scales with pores on each in males; two or three rows of enlarged post-precloacal scales; two or three postcloacal tubercles; interdigital pocketing absent; dark pigmented blotches absent from top of head; posterior border of nuchal loop rounded; and four dark body bands (revised and summarized in Tables 7 + 15 in Murdoch et al. 2019). |
Comment | Abundance: only known from its original description (Meiri et al. 2017). |
Etymology | The specific epithet is derived from Phu Quoc National Park, the type locality. |
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