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Cyrtodactylus dianxiensis LIU & RAO, 2021

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Higher TaxaGekkonidae, Gekkota, Sauria, Squamata (lizards: geckos)
Subspecies 
Common NamesE: Western Yunnan Bent-toed Gecko
Chinese: 滇西裸趾虎’ (Diān Xī Luǒ Zhǐ Hǔ) 
SynonymCyrtodactylus dianxiensis LIU & RAO 2021
Cyrtodactylus khasiensis — YANG & RAO 2008 
DistributionChina (Yingjiang County and Longchuan County in Tongbiguan Nature Reserve, Dehong Autonomous Prefecture, Western Yunnan)

Type locality: Tongbiguan Township, Yingjiang County, Dehong Autonomous Prefecture, Yunnan Province, China (24° 36′ 51″ N, 97° 35′ 2″ E, at an elevation of 1170 m asl).  
Reproduction 
TypesHolotype: KIZ L2019044, adult male, collected by Shuo Liu on 3 September 2018.
Paratypes: KIZ 2003170, adult male, collected on 14 May 2003. 
DiagnosisDiagnosis: Crytodactylus dianxiensis can be diagnosed from other members of the C. gansi group by the following combination of characters: body size moderate (SVL 73.8–79.9 mm in adults); 11–12 supralabials; 9–11 infralabials; 18–19 longitudinal rows of rounded, conical, feebly keeled dorsal tubercles; 31–32 paravertebral tubercles; 37–41 ventral scales between ventrolateral folds; no precloacal groove; 7–8 precloacals in males, no femoral pores; 16 total subdigital lamellae beneath finger IV of manus, 19–20 total subdigital lamellae beneath toe IV of pes; dorsal pattern of indistinct light and dark blotches forming longitudinal markings on neck and forebody; tail with alternating dark and light bands. (Liu et al. 2021).


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Comment 
Etymology‘Dianxi’ in Chinese language is a noun and means Western Yunnan, the specific epithet refers to the distribution of the new species in the westernmost part of Yunnan Province. 
References
  • Liu, Shuo & Dingqi Rao 2021. A new species of Cyrtodactylus Gray, 1827 (Squamata: Gekkonidae) from Western Yunnan, China. Journal of Natural History, 55: 713-731 - get paper here
  • 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
  • Yang DT, Rao DQ. 2008. Amphibia and Reptilia of Yunnan. Kunming: Yunnan Publishing Group Corporation, 1-411. (in Chinese)
 
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