Cyrtodactylus tanahjampea RIYANTO, HAMIDY & MCGUIRE, 2018
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Cyrtodactylus tanahjampea
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| Higher Taxa | Gekkonidae, Gekkota, Sauria, Squamata (lizards: geckos) |
| Subspecies | |
| Common Names | E: Tanahjampea bent-toed gecko Indonesian: Cicak Jari-lengkung Tanahjampea |
| Synonym | Cyrtodactylus tanahjampea RIYANTO, HAMIDY & MCGUIRE 2018 |
| Distribution | Indonesia (Sulawesi: Tanahjampea Island) Type locality: Telkom tower road on Pasimasunggu district, Kepulauan Selayar regency, South Sulawesi Province, Tanahjampea Island, Indonesia (07°5’09.4” S, 120°39’29.2” E, 316 m above sea level |
| Reproduction | oviparous (manual imputation, fide Zimin et al. 2022) |
| Types | Holotype: MZB Lace.5675 (Fig.2), adult male, collected by J. A. McGuire, Christopher J. Hayden, and Ted Townsend on 18 October 2005, 9:07 pm. Paratype. MZB.Lace.5671–72, MZB.Lace.5674, adult females, vicinity of Makminasa, Pasimasunggu district, Kepulauan Selayar regency, South Sulawesi Province, Tanahjampea Island, Indonesia (07o05’04.9” S, 120o40’58.3” E, 195 m above sea level), collected by Christopher J. Hayden on 16 October 2005 11:00 pm; MZB.Lace.5676, adult female, vicinity of Makminasa, Pasimasunggu district, Kepulauan Selayar regency, Sulawesi Selatan province, Tanahjampea Island, Indonesia (07°05’20.3” S, 120°41’05.4” E, 103 m above sea level), collected by J. A. McGuire on 16 October 2005, 10:10 pm; MVZ 267742, MVZ 267744 (Fig.3), adult females, vicinity of Makminasa, Pasimasunggu district, Kepulauan Selayar regency, Sulawesi Selatan province, Tanahjampea Island, Indonesia (07°05’04.9” S, 120°40’58.3” E, 195 m above sea level), collected by Christopher J. Hayden on October 2005, 11:00 pm; MVZ 267749–50, adult males, Telkom tower road, Pasimasunggu district, Kepulauan Selayar regency, Sulawesi Selatan province, Tanahjampea Island, Indonesia (07°05’09.4” S, 120°39’29.2” E, 316 m above sea level), collected by J. A. McGuire, Christopher J. Hayden, and Ted Townsend on 18 October 2005, 8:30 pm; MVZ 267752, adult female, Telkom tower road, Pasimasunggu district, Kepulauan Selayar regency, Sulawesi Selatan province, Indonesia (07°05’12.3” S, 120°39’11.1” E, 251 m above sea level), collected by J. A. McGuire, Christopher J. Hayden, and Ted Townsend on 18 October 2005, 9:07 pm. |
| Diagnosis | Diagnosis: Cyrtodactylus tanahjampea sp. nov. is a medium size species reaching 76.1 mm and can be readily distinguished from the congeners on Sulawesi, the Moluccas, and the Lesser Sunda Islands by the following unique combination of characters: (1) brachium and antebrachium tuberculated, (2) ventrolateral folds with tubercles, (3) 20–23 irregularly aligned rows of keeled tubercles, (4) 31–34 paravertebral tubercles, (5) 29–34 ventral scales between ventrolateral folds, (6) no precloacal depression, (7) enlarged precloacofemoral scales in a continuous series, (8) males with 20–24 precloacofemoral pores in wide Ʌ-shape, (9) enlarged post precloacal scales present, (10) 19–21 fourth toe subdigital lamellae, (11) absence of enlarged transversely median subcaudals, (12) tail not prehensile, (13) tubercles extend over anterior about 71 % of original tail’s length, and (14) the original tails reach 147 % of SVL. |
| Comment | |
| Etymology | The specific name tanahjampea refers to Tanahjampea Island, the only locality at which this species is known to occur. |
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