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Hemiphyllodactylus khpoh GRISMER, SINOVAS, QUAH, THI, CHOURN, CHHIN, HUN, COBOS, GEISSLER, CHING & MURDOCH, 2025

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Higher TaxaGekkonidae, Gekkota, Sauria, Squamata (lizards: geckos)
Subspecies 
Common Names 
SynonymHemiphyllodactylus khpoh GRISMER, SINOVAS, QUAH, THI, CHOURN, CHHIN, HUN, COBOS, GEISSLER, CHING & MURDOCH 2025: 260 
DistributionCambodia (Battambang)

Type locality: Phnom Khoph, Banan District, Battambang Province, Cambodia (13.025962°N 103.000378°E; 18 m)  
Reproduction 
TypesHolotype. Adult female (LSUHC 15238) at 2130 on 24 March 2024 collected by Matthew L. Murdoch, L. Lee Grismer, Evan S. H. Quah, Sothearen Thi, and Anthony Cobos. 
DiagnosisDiagnosis: Hemiphyllodactylus khpoh sp. nov. can be potentially be distinguished from all other species of Hemiphyllodactylus in clade 6, H. pardalis, H. bokor, H. samkos, and Hemiphyllodactylus sp. from Cambodia (Table 2), as well as species from Myanmar and adjacent parts of Indochina (Grismer et al. 2017, 2018a, 2020a,b; Sukprasert et al. 2018; Eliades et al. 2019) by having 16 chin scales, five circumnasals, two intersupransals, 11 supralabials and infralabials, 15 dorsals, 14 ventrals, 3333 lamellar formula on the hand, 4433 lamellar formula on the foot, two subdigital lamellae on the first digit one of the hand and foot, small postmentals, no femoral or precloacal pores, one cloacal spur, small undifferentiated subcaudals, iris brownish, adult female coloration not yellow, no distinct dark-colored spots on top of head, well-defined thin dark-colored pre-and postorbital stripes, the latter extending to the anterior one-third of the ventral portion of the flank (i.e. post-axilla), lateral row of small linearly arranged light-colored spots on flanks, no dorsolateral or ventrolateral dark-colored stripe on trunk, wide vertebral area generally unicolor, no dark-colored bands or reticulate pattern on trunk, no distinct well-defined dark-colored spots on dorsum, no dark-colored paravertebral markings on trunk, dorsolateral row of small linearly arranged dark-colored-colored spots on trunk, sacral band incomplete across sacrum, and cecum and gonadal tracks unpigmented. (Grismer et al. 2025)


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EtymologyNamed after the type locality. 
References
  • GRISMER, L. L., SINOVAS, P., QUAH, E. S., THI, S., CHOURN, P., CHHIN, S., ... & MURDOCH, M. L. 2025. A new species of lowland karst-dwelling Slender Gecko Hemiphyllodactylus Bleeker, 1860 (Squamata: Gekkonidae) from a karstic archipelago in western Cambodia. Zootaxa 5569(2): 253-281 - get paper here
 
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