Lepidodactylus pollostos KARKKAINEN, RICHARDS, KRAUS, TJATURADI, KREY & OLIVER, 2020
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Lepidodactylus pollostos
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| Higher Taxa | Gekkonidae, Gekkota, Sauria, Squamata (lizards: geckos) |
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| Synonym | Lepidodactylus pollostos KARKKAINEN, RICHARDS, KRAUS, TJATURADI, KREY & OLIVER 2020 Lepidodactylus sp. Salawati — OLIVER et al., 2018: 4; fig. 1a |
| Distribution | Indonesia (West Papua: Salawati Island) Type locality: “Weybya Camp”, 0.9564°S, 130.7843°E, 75 m. a.s.l., Salawati Island, West Papua Province, Indonesia. |
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| Types | Holotype: MZB Lace.5334 (field tag SJR7808), mature male, collected by S. Richards, B. Tjaturadi and K. Krey on 29 June 2005. |
| Diagnosis | Diagnosis: A species of Lepidodactylus that differs from all congeners in its unique combination of very small size (adult male SVL = 32.5 mm), subcylindrical tail without lateral fringe of enlarged scales, undivided terminal scansors, two divided subterminal scansors on T4, 17 enlarged scales of pore-bearing series limited to precloacal region, 19 precloacal pores, six enlarged scales in a series between apex of pore-bearing series and cloaca, long forelimbs (FA/SVL = 0.12), short snout (SN/HL = 0.39), 14–16 T4 lamellae, eight T1 lamellae, lamellae occupying most of toes (T4lamellaeL/T4L = 0.94), narrow toes (T4W/T4L = 0.29), dark-brown flecks on venter that are most distinct on throat and head, lightto medium-brown scales on venter coalescing into vermiculations across the throat and torso, light-brown postorbital stripe, and plantar surfaces with extensive minute medium-brown punctations and with many entirely medium-brown scales. |
| Comment | Only known from the holotype. Sympatry: Cyrtodactylus irianjayaensis, Cyrtodactylus papuensis, Gehyra barea, Hemiphyllodactylus typus and Nactus sp.. Other species known from Salawati: Gehyra insulensis, probably on Salawati: Gekko vittatus, Hemidactylus frenatus, Lepidodactylus lugubris. Distribution: see map in Karkkainen et al. 2020: 7 (Fig. 4). |
| Etymology | The trivial epithet, pollostos, is a single-ending Greek adjective, meaning smallest or least, as this is possibly the smallest species of Lepidodactylus. |
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