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Cyrtodactylus soudthichaki LUU, CALAME, NGUYEN, BONKOWSKI & ZIEGLER, 2015

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Higher TaxaGekkonidae, Gekkota, Sauria, Squamata (lizards: geckos)
Subspecies 
Common NamesE: Soudthichak’s Bent-toed Gecko
Laotian: Soudthichak’s Ki Chiem 
SynonymCyrtodactylus soudthichaki LUU, CALAME, NGUYEN, BONKOWSKI & ZIEGLER 2015
Cyrtodactylus soudthichaki — STUART et al. in WCS 2024 
DistributionC Laos (Khammouane)

Type locality: Khun Don region (17°33.731’N, 104°52.360’E, elevation 167 m elevation) within Phou Hin Poun NPA, Khammouane Province, central Laos.  
Reproductionoviparous (manual imputation, fide Zimin et al. 2022) 
TypesHolotype: VNUF (originally as VFU) R.2015.18, adult male, collected during night time between 19:00 and 21:00 on 4 April 2015 by V. Q. Luu and T. Calame. Paratypes. IEBR A.2015.34, adult female and NUOL R-2015.5, subadult male, bearing the same data as the holotype. 
DiagnosisDiagnosis: The new species can be distinguished from all other members of the genus Cyrtodactylus from the mainland Indochina region by a combination of the following characters: adult SVL 69.2–70.0 mm; dorsal head and neck with dark blotches; nuchal loop present; dorsum with five brown bands between limb insertions; 19 or 20 irregular rows of dorsal tubercles; 32 or 33 ventral scale rows; ventrolateral folds present with distinct tubercles; dorsal surface of hind limbs with tubercles; 29 precloacal and femoral pores in a continuous row in males, precloacal pores absent in the female; enlarged femoral and precloacal scales present; 4 or 5 postcloacal tubercles; subcaudals transversely enlarged.


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CommentAbundance: only known from its original description (Meiri et al. 2017). 
References
  • Grismer, L. L., Wood, P. L., Poyarkov, N. A., Le, M. D., Kraus, F., Agarwal, I., ... & Grismer, J. L. 2021. Phylogenetic partitioning of the third-largest vertebrate genus in the world, Cyrtodactylus Gray, 1827 (Reptilia; Squamata; Gekkonidae) and its relevance to taxonomy and conservation. Vertebrate Zoology 71: 101–154 - get paper here
  • Kwet, A. 2016. Liste der im Jahr 2015 neu beschriebenen Reptilien. Terraria-Elaphe 2016 (3): 56-67 - get paper here
  • LUU, VINH QUANG; THOMAS CALAME, Truong QUang Nguyen, MICHAEL BONKOWSKI & THOMAS ZIEGLER 2015. A new species of Cyrtodactylus (Squamata: Gekkonidae) from the limestone forest of Khammouane Province, central Laos. Zootaxa 4058 (3): 388–402 - get paper here
  • Meiri, Shai; Aaron M. Bauer, Allen Allison, Fernando Castro-Herrera, Laurent Chirio, Guarino Colli, Indraneil Das, Tiffany M. Doan, Frank Glaw, Lee L. Grismer, Marinus Hoogmoed, Fred Kraus, Matthew LeBreton, Danny Meirte, Zoltán T. Nagy, Cristiano d 2017. Extinct, obscure or imaginary: the lizard species with the smallest ranges. Diversity and Distributions - get paper here
  • WCS 2024. Wildlife in Lao PDR, 2024 Status Report. Vientiane; Wildlife Conservation Society Lao PDR Program
  • Zimin, A., Zimin, S. V., Shine, R., Avila, L., Bauer, A., Böhm, M., Brown, R., Barki, G., de Oliveira Caetano, G. H., Castro Herrera, F., Chapple, D. G., Chirio, L., Colli, G. R., Doan, T. M., Glaw, F., Grismer, L. L., Itescu, Y., Kraus, F., LeBreton 2022. A global analysis of viviparity in squamates highlights its prevalence in cold climates. Global Ecology and Biogeography, 00, 1–16 - get paper here
 
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