Cyrtodactylus karanshahi BHATTARAI, GAUTAM, PRASAD NEUPANE, KHANDEKAR, THACKERAY, AGARWAL, TILLACK, OLSON, HOGAN & WRIGHT, 2025
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Cyrtodactylus karanshahi
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| Higher Taxa | Gekkonidae, Gekkota, Sauria, Squamata (lizards: geckos) |
| Subspecies | |
| Common Names | E: Karan’s bent-toed gecko |
| Synonym | Cyrtodactylus karanshahi BHATTARAI, GAUTAM, PRASAD NEUPANE, KHANDEKAR, THACKERAY, AGARWAL, TILLACK, OLSON, HOGAN & WRIGHT 2025: 438 |
| Distribution | Nepal (Gandaki) Type locality: on the way from Philim to Chisapani (28.4014°N, 84.8941°E; ca. 1590 m asl.), Gorkha District, Manaslu Conservation Area Gandaki Province, Nepal |
| Reproduction | |
| Types | Holotype. NHM 2023/372 (SB034), adult male; collected by Santosh Bhattarai on 23rd June 2023 Paratypes. NHM 2023/371 (SB033), NHM 2023/373 (SB035), and NHM 2023/375 (SB037), adult males, NHM 2023/374 (SB036), adult female; same collection data as the holotype. |
| Diagnosis | Diagnosis. A medium-sized Cyrtodactylus, snout to vent length up to 74.5 mm (n=5). Dorsal pholidosis heterogeneous; smooth granular scales intermixed with fairly regularly arranged rows of enlarged, feebly keeled to smooth, weakly pointed tubercles; a ventrolateral fold of skin present on lower flank; 18 or 19 rows of dorsal tubercles at midbody, 34–36 (rarely 32, n=1/5) tubercles in paravertebral rows; ventral scales subequal from chest to vent, smooth, subcircular, and subimbricate with rounded end; 39–42 scales across belly at midbody, 86–89 longitudinal ventral scales between axilla to groin, 181–189 longitudinal ventral scales from mental to cloaca; subdigital scansors smooth, unnotched, and mostly entire; 12 (rarely 13, n=1/5) lamellae under digit I of manus and 11–13 under digit I of pes, 16 or 17 lamellae under digit IV of manus and 19–21 lamellae under digit IV of pes; males with continuous series of seven or eight precloacal pores (n=4), additionally, one or two pores below the precloacal row (n=3/4), and 8–10 enlarged precloacal scales on pore bearing scale row; female without pores but having nine enlarged precloacal scales on otherwise pore bearing scale row (n=1); scales on non-regenerated tail dorsum homogeneous; composed of fairly regularly arranged, smooth, elongated or rectangular, flattened, and subimbricate scales that are larger than granular scales on midbody dorsum, gradually becoming larger posteriorly and dorsolaterally; a few scattered enlarged tubercles present on the tail base; subcaudal scales in median series smooth, variable in size and shape, and not enlarged; dorsal pattern of scattered, irregular, fine, black markings and numerous fine light spots on brown dorsum, original tail with 10 alternating dark and lighter bands. (Bhattarai et al. 2025) Additional details (3574 characters) are available for collaborators and contributors. Please contact us for details. |
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| Etymology | Named after Prof Karan Bahadur Shah (b. 1954), for his remarkable contributions to the ecology, taxonomy and socioeconomics of the vertebrate fauna and in particular the herpetofauna of his home country, Nepal. |
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