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Cyrtodactylus pseudoquadrivirgatus RÖSLER, NGUYEN, VU, NGO & ZIEGLER, 2008

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Higher TaxaGekkonidae, Gekkota, Sauria, Squamata (lizards: geckos)
Subspecies 
Common Names 
SynonymCyrtodactylus pseudoquadrivirgatus RÖSLER, NGUYEN, VU, NGO & ZIEGLER 2008
Cyrtodactylus cf. pseudoquadrivirgatus — JESTRZEMSKI et al. 2013
Cyrtodactylus pseudoquadrivirgatus — NGUYEN et al. 2021 
DistributionVietnam (Thua Thien-Hue Province)

Type locality: A Luoi, Thua Thien-Hue Province, central Vietnam, at an elevation of 800 m above sea level.  
Reproductionoviparous 
TypesHolotype: ZFMK 83895, adult female, (Fig. 1–2a– d), leg. Vu Ngoc Thanh, 20 July 2005. 
DiagnosisDiagnosis. A medium-sized Cyrtodactylus that can be distinguished from all congeners from the Oriental and Australian regions on the basis of the following combination of characters: 1) SVL up to 84 mm (TL > SVL); 2) head depressed, distinct from body, snout with me dial concavity; 3) 37–55 interorbital scales; 4) body rounded in cross-section, belly lat, not wider than head; 5) lateral fold narrow, with enlarged lateral tubercles; 6) tubercles present on dorsum of head, body, forearm, hind limbs and tail; 7) 16–24 rows of dorsal tubercles; 8) 41–57 longitudinal rows of ventral scales at midbody; 9) rounded tail in cross-section, tail base not enlarged; 10) 5–9 precloacal pores in angular series and 1–12 enlarged precloacal scales; 11) absence of enlarged femoral scales, lack of femoral pores and a precloacal groove; 12) absence of transversely enlarged subcaudals; 13) 9–13 lamellae under first digit, 10–13 lamellae under irst toe, and 16–25 lamellae under 4th toe; 14) body dorsum light brown with dark brown pattern (head mottled, dorsum mottled, striped or with bands); 15) neck band medially interrupted; 16) limbs striped or mottled, tail with dark and light bands (Rösler et al. 2008). 
Comment 
EtymologyThe name refers to Cyrtodactylus quadrivirgatus, with which the new species may be easily confused with due to the striking similarities in external morphology, including scalation, colouration and pattern; the prefix pseudo derives from the Greek pseudes = false, pretended. 
References
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