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Cnemaspis kohukumburai KARUNARATHNA, POYARKOV, DE SILVA, MADAWALA, BOTEJUE, GORIN, SURASINGHE, GABADAGE, UKUWELA & BAUER, 2019

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Higher TaxaGekkonidae, Gekkota, Sauria, Squamata (lizards: geckos)
Subspecies 
Common NamesE: Kohukumbures’ day gecko
Sinhala: Kohukumburege diva-seri hoona 
SynonymCnemaspis kohukumburai KARUNARATHNA, POYARKOV, DE SILVA, MADAWALA, BOTEJUE, GORIN, SURASINGHE, GABADAGE, UKUWELA & BAUER 2019 
DistributionSri Lanka (Kandy District)

Type locality: granite tunnel in Kadugannawa, Kandy District,
Central Province, Sri Lanka (7.251800° N, 80.509378° E,
WGS1984; elevation 427 m.  
Reproduction 
TypesHolotype. NMSL.2019.05.01, adult male, 33.9 mm SVL (Fig. 10),
collected around 09.00 hrs) on 12 October 2018 by Suranjan Karunarathna and Anslem de Silva.
Paratypes. NMSL.2019.05.02, adult male, 32.5 mm SVL, and
NMSL.2019.05.03, adult female, 31.0 mm SVL collected from a granite tunnel in Kadugannawa, Kandy District, Central Province,
Sri Lanka (7.251658° N, 80.512561° E, WGS1984; elevation
435 m; around 10.00 hrs), on 12 October 2018 by Suranjan
Karunarathna and Anslem de Silva. 
DiagnosisDiagnosis: Cnemaspis kohukumburai sp. nov. can be readily distinguished from its Sri Lankan congeners by a combination of the following morphological and meristic characteristics and color pattern: maximum SVL 33.9 mm; dorsum with homogeneous, smooth granular scales; 2/2 supranasals, 1 internasal and 1/1 postnasal present; 3 enlarged postmentals; postmentals bounded by 5 chin scales; chin and gular scales smooth, granular, juxtaposed; pectoral and abdominal scales smooth, subimbricate; 7 – 8 well developed tubercles on posterior flank; 150 – 159 paravertebral granules linearly arranged; 23 belly scales across the venter; precloacal pores absent in males, 6 – 9 femoral pores on each side in males separated by 25 unpored femoro-precloacal scales, 1 – 2 unpored posterior femoral scales; 131 – 134 ventral scales; 81 – 88 midbody scales; subcaudals smooth, subhexagonal, enlarged, subequal, forming aregular median row; 8 – 9 supralabials; 7 – 8 infralabials; 21 – 22 total lamellae on digit IV of manus, and 23 – 25 total lamellae on digit IV of pes.


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Comment 
EtymologyThe specific epithet is an eponym Latinized (kohukumburai) in the masculine genitive singular, honouring the Sri Lankan warrior ‘Kohukumbure Walauwe Rate Rala’ for his valiant feats in the Great Rebellion of 1817 – 1818 which was initiated in Uva-Wellassa. 
References
  • Karunarathna, Suranjan; Nikolay A. Poyarkov, Anslem de Silva, Majintha Madawala, Madhava Botejue, Vladislav A. Gorin, Thilina Surasinghe, Dinesh Gabadage, Kanishka D.B. Ukuwela & Aaron M. Bauer 2019. Integrative taxonomy reveals six new species of day geckos of the genus Cnemaspis Strauch, 1887 (Reptilia: Squamata: Gekkonidae) from geographically-isolated hill forests in Sri Lanka. Vertebrate Zoology 69 (3): 247–298 - get paper here
  • Kwet, A. 2020. Liste der im Jahr 2019 neubeschriebenen Reptilien. Elaphe 2020 (3): 44-67
 
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