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Hemiphyllodactylus cattien YUSHCHENKO, GRISMER, BRAGIN, DAC & POYARKOV, 2023

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Higher TaxaGekkonidae, Gekkota, Sauria, Squamata (lizards: geckos)
Subspecies 
Common NamesE: Cat tien Slender Gecko
Vietnamese: Thạch sùng dẹp Cát Tiên 
SynonymHemiphyllodactylus cattien YUSHCHENKO, GRISMER, BRAGIN, DAC & POYARKOV 2023 
DistributionS Vietnam (Dong Nai: Cat tien National Park)

Type locality: trail to lake Bau Sau, Nam Cat tien sector, Cat tien National Park, Dong Nai Province, southern Vietnam (GPS data 11.4458° N, 107.3864° E WGS; 140 m a.s.l.)  
Reproduction 
TypesHolotype. VRTC NAP-10586; Adult female, formerly ZMMU Re-17039) collected on 14 February 2021 at 18:00 h by P.V. Yushchenko and N.A. Poyarkov. 
DiagnosisDiagnosis. Hemiphyllodactylus cattien sp. nov. can putatively be distinguished from all other congeners by possessing the unique combination of having a maximum SVl of 35.1 mm; trunk slightly elongate and gracile (AG/ SVl 0.52); seven chin scales; enlarged postmentals; five circumnasal scales; three intersupranasals (= postrostrals); nine supralabials; nine infralabials; 20 longitudinal rows of dorsal scales and 11 longitudinal rows of ventral scales at midbody contained within one eye diameter; 4444 digital formulas on hands and 5555 formulas on feet; five subdigital lamellae on the first finger; six subdigital lamellae on the first toe; 19 perforated precloacal scales that extend part-way onto the proximal femoral region; one cloacal spur on each side; no platelike subcaudal scales; a weak dark-colored postorbital stripe extending to at base of neck; no dorsolateral light-colored spots or dark-clored dorsolateral stripe on trunk; no dark-colored ventrolateral stripe on trunk; no dark-clored paravertebral markings on trunk; no light-colored postsacral marking bearing anteriorly projecting arms; and caecum and gonads darkly pigmented. (Yushchenko et al. 2023) 
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References
  • Luu, Vinh Q., Tuoi T. Hoang, Hong B. Ha, Jesse L. Grismer, Matthew Murdoch, Saly Sitthivong, Vilay Phimpasone & L. L. Grismer 2024. Integrative taxonomy reveals two new species of karst-dwelling Hemiphyllodactylus Bleeker, 1860 (Squamata: Gekkonidae) from the border region of Laos and Vietnam. Zootaxa 5486 (1): 071–108 - get paper here
  • NEANG, T., SAMORN, V., HUN, S., HENSON, A., & STUART, B. L. 2024. Review of the Slender Geckos (Squamata: Gekkonidae: Hemiphyllodactylus) of the Cardamom Mountains of southwestern Cambodia, with descriptions of two new species and one country record. Zootaxa, 5537(3), 377-394 - get paper here
 
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