Cyrtodactylus guwahatiensis AGARWAL, MAHONY, GIRI, CHAITANYA & BAUER, 2018
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Higher Taxa | Gekkonidae, Gekkota, Sauria, Squamata (lizards: geckos) |
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Synonym | Cyrtodactylus guwahatiensis AGARWAL, MAHONY, GIRI, CHAITANYA & BAUER 2018 |
Distribution | India (Assam) Type locality: Hengrabari Road, Guwahati City, Kamrup Metropolitan district, Assam state, India (26.16193°N, 91.78298°E, elevation < 100 m asl) |
Reproduction | oviparous (manual imputation, fide Zimin et al. 2022) |
Types | Holotype: BNHS 2146, adult male, field number CES09/1127), collected by Ishan Agarwal, 11 June 2009. |
Diagnosis | Diagnosis: Cyrtodactylus guwahatiensis sp. nov. can be distinguished from all congeners by: its moderate body size (SVL up to at least 67.8 mm); 10 supralabials; nine infralabials; 23 or 24 longitudinal rows of bluntly conical, feebly keeled dorsal tubercles; tubercles extending till third segment of tail; 35 paravertebral tubercles; ~34 ventral scales between ventrolateral folds; no precloacal groove; 26 precloacofemoral pores in a discontinuous series interspersed by 11 unpored scales; a row of enlarged scales above and below precloacal pore-bearing scales, slightly larger than pore-bearing scales; 16 total subdigital lamellae beneath toe IV of pes; subcaudal scalation of original tail without enlarged plates; dorsal pattern of 8–10 transverse rows of two or three pale buff blotches outlined by thick dark reticulations. Tail with alternating dark and lighter bands (Agarwal et al. 2018, but see updated diagnosis in Purkayashta et al. 2020: 383). Additional details (1166 characters) are available for collaborators and contributors. Please contact us for details. |
Comment | Habitat: degraded moist deciduous forest on a small hill, completely surrounded by the urban sprawl of Guwahati, Assam. |
Etymology | The specific epithet is a toponym for the type locality of the species, Guwahati, the largest city in Assam and northeast India. |
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