Goniurosaurus zhoui ZHOU, WANG, CHEN & LIANG, 2018
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Goniurosaurus zhoui
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| Higher Taxa | Eublepharidae, Gekkota, Sauria, Squamata (lizards: geckos) |
| Subspecies | |
| Common Names | E: Zhou’s Leopard Gecko Chinese: Zhou Shi Jian Hu |
| Synonym | Goniurosaurus zhoui ZHOU, WANG, CHEN & LIANG 2018 Goniurosaurus zhoui — QI et al. 2025: 692 |
| Distribution | China (Hainan) Type locality: karst area (at an altitude of 220-300 meters above sea level) in the central area of Hainan Island, China;exact locality withheld for conservation reasons; available to qualified researchers upon request. |
| Reproduction | oviparous (not imputed, fide Zimin et al. 2022) |
| Types | Holotype: private collection, BL-RBZ-002 (apparently an acronym for Bin Liang and Run-Bang Zhou, two of the authors), an adult male, collected by Run-Bang Zhou on March 18th, 2017. Paratypes. Four paratypes, including two adult males (BL-RBZ-001, 007) and two adult females (BL-RBZ-003, 008) collected by Run-Bang Zhou from the same locality as the holotype. BL-RBZ-001 was collected on November 28th, 2015; BL-RBZ-003 on March 18th, 2017; BL-RBZ-007, and 008 on April 16th, 2017. |
| Diagnosis | Diagnosis: Based on the previous description (Zhou et al. 2018) and examined specimens in this study: (1) SVL 92.0–101.5 mm in adult males, 83.7–97.0 mm in adult females; (2) external nares bordered by 6–9 nasal scales; (3) internasal mostly single, rarely two; (4) supralabials 8–10; (5) infralabials 7–9; (6) preorbital scales 14–20; (7) supraorbital region with a row of slightly enlarged tubercles; (8) eyelid fringe scales 49–62; (9) scales around midbody 92–140; (10) longitudinal dorsal tubercle rows at midbody 19–25; (11) paravertebral tubercles between limb insertions 22–32; (12) axillary pockets deep; (13) presence of 36–41 precloacal pores in males form a continuous transverse series extending onto the femora, and absent in females; (14) dorsal ground color of head yellow-brown, body and limbs dark yellow-brown to dark brown in juveniles, without blotches; dorsal ground color of head, body and limbs mauve pink to purple brown in adults, with small irregularly shaped dark brown blotches; (15) presence of five transverse bands, including one nuchal loop, three body bands and one caudal constriction band, yellowish-white to light yellow with black brown anterior and posterior borders, transverse bands usually with dark brown spots in mature individuals; (16) nuchal loop rounded; (17) iris reddish-orange to dark reddish-brown. (Qi et al. 2025) Unfortunately we had to temporarily remove additional information as this was scraped by multiple AI companies who sell that data to their customers. These details, e.g. detailed descriptions or comparisons (about 5231 characters) are available for collaborators and contributors. Please contact us for details. |
| Comment | Distribution: see map in Ngo et al. 2023. |
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