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Cyrtodactylus hekouensis ZHANG, LIU, BERNSTEIN, WANG & YUAN, 2021

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Higher TaxaGekkonidae, Gekkota, Sauria, Squamata (lizards: geckos)
Subspecies 
Common NamesE: Hekou bent-toes gecko
Chinese: 河口裸趾虎 
SynonymCyrtodactylus hekouensis ZHANG, LIU, BERNSTEIN, WANG & YUAN 2021 
DistributionChina (Daweishan National Nature Reserve, Honghe Autonomous Prefecture, Yunnan Province)

Type locality: Daweishan National Nature Reserve, Honghe Autonomous Prefecture, Yunnan Province, China  
Reproduction 
TypesHolotype: SWFU002507, adult male, collected by Yinpeng ZHANG, 07/24/2018, from Daweishan National Nature Reserve, Hekou County, Honghe Autonomous Prefecture, Yunnan Province, China.
Paratypes: SWFU001578, adult male collected by Zhiyong YUAN; SWFU002879, SWFU002880, SWFU002881, all gravid female adults collected by Zhiyong YUAN and Yinpeng ZHANG, 07.24.2018. Collected from Daweishan National Nature Reserve, Honghe Autonomous Prefecture, Yunnan Province, China 
DiagnosisDiagnosis: A moderate sized Cyrtodactylus, with a slender trunk and bent toes, C. hekouensis is distinguished from other described Cyrtodactylus species by the combined characteristics: maximum SVL 92.3 mm and TL 98.5 mm; 11–12 supralabials; 11–12 infralabials; 36–57 scale rows between the fifth supralabials; 10–13 dorsal tubercles rows; 3 postnasals on blunt and smooth front snout; precloacal-femoral pores in a continuous series of 33–39 (females with pitted scales) located under vent/cloaca and each side of thigh in both sexes; precloacal groove absent; 3/3 postcloacal tubercles; subdigital lamellae under the fourth finger 21 or 22, under the fourth toe 20–23; smooth midbody with smooth venter and tuberculate dorsal scale rows, tubercles from head to tail base; dorsal transverse. (Zhang et al. 2021)


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Comment 
EtymologyThe species is named after the county of the type locality (“Hekou”= 河口in Chinese). 
References
  • Wang K, Lyu ZT, Wang J, Qi S, Che J 2022. Updated Checklist and Zoogeographic Division of the Reptilian Fauna of Yunnan Province, China. Biodiversity Science 30 (4): 21326, 1–31 - get paper here
  • Zhang Y. P., Liu X. L., Bernstein J., Wang J., Yuan Z. Y. 2021. New Species of Cyrtodactylus (Squamata: Gekkonidae) from the Karst Forests of Daweishan National Nature Reserve, Yunnan, China. Asian Herpetological Research 12 (3): 261-270 - get paper here
 
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