Tytthoscincus martae GRISMER, WOOD, QUAH, ANUAR, NGADI, MOHD-IZAM & AHMAD, 2017
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Tytthoscincus martae
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| Higher Taxa | Scincidae, Sphenomorphinae (Sphenomorphini), Scincoidea, Sauria, Squamata (lizards) |
| Subspecies | |
| Common Names | E: Hindu Temple Forest skink Malay: Mengkarung hutan kuil hindu |
| Synonym | Tytthoscincus martae GRISMER, WOOD, QUAH, ANUAR, NGADI, MOHD-IZAM & AHMAD 2017 |
| Distribution | Peninsular Malaysia (Pahang) Type locality: Hindu Temple 1.2 km south of the town of Fraser’s Hill on the road to the Gap, Pahang, Peninsular Malaysia (N 03°42.099′, E 101°44.090′; 1078 m in elevation) |
| Reproduction | |
| Types | Holotype: LSUHC 12688, Adult male, collected by Evan S. H. Quah, Marta S. Grismer and L. Lee Grismer on 23 March 2016. Paratypes: LSUHC 12517–18 collected on 3 December 2015 and LSUHC 12749 and 12751 collected on 21 June 2016 from the Awana Road, Genting Highlands, Pahang, Peninsular Malaysia (N 3°24.036′, E 101°47.212′; 1052 m in elevation) by Evan S. H. Quah and L. Lee Grismer. ZRC 3.6246 is from the same locality as the holotype and was collected by L. Lee Grismer, Perry L. Wood, Jr. and Timothy M. Youmans on 26 August 2006. |
| Diagnosis | Diagnosis: Tytthoscincus martae sp. nov. can be differentiated from all other species of Tytthoscincus in the montane clade except T. bukitensis by having the combination of 8`1, 9`1 or 10`2 superciliaries; a deep, weakly pigmented tympanum; enlarged pectoral scales; 31–35 midbody scales; 70–74 paravertebral scales; 61–72 ventral scales; keeled, subdigital lamellae; seven subdigital lamellae on the third finger; 12 or 13 subdigital lamellae on the fourth toe; TD/HL = 0.12–0.16; HL/ SVL = 0.18–0.26; AXG/SVL = 0.47–0.55; FL/SVL = 0.21– 0.26; HDL/SVL = 0.33–0.38; and a maximum SVL of 44.0 mm (Table 6). All non-ratiometric characters are scored across all other Tytthoscincus and species of Sphenomorphus suspected of being Tytthoscincus in Grismer et al. (2016a: 237) and Karin et al. (2016: 416). |
| Comment | Habitat: Tytthoscincus martae sp. nov. inhabits leaf-litter in hill dipterocarp forests from at least 991–1239 m in elevation (Fig. 14). Specimens from Awana Road, Genting Highlands were collected by raking leaves that had accumulated at the foot of an earthen bank and by turning logs and rocks buried in leaf-litter. Lizards were most commonly found in areas where moisture from the hillside had seeped down to the edge of the road. During overcast days, lizards were seen running swiftly through small rocks and root tan- gles on the forest floor beneath the canopy in the nearby forest. However, we do not know if these specimens were T. martae sp. nov. or T. bukitensis. At Fraser’s Hill, specimens were found along the edges of seeps or small streams in damp microhabitats. ZRC 3.6246 was found beneath a log and LSUHC 12688 was found buried in the leaf-litter, both near the edges of small drainages. |
| Etymology | The specific epithet martae is a matronym honouring Lee Grismer’s wife Marta S. Grismer “for her long, non-wavering commitment and support of my work for many years, her efforts in the field on many trips across Southeast Asia and Latin America and for generating the morphological data sets for a number of our studies.” |
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