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Cyrtodactylus wakeorum BAUER, 2003

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Higher TaxaGekkonidae, Gekkota, Sauria, Squamata (lizards: geckos)
Subspecies 
Common Names 
SynonymCyrtodactylus wakeorum BAUER 2003
Cyrtodactylus wakeorum— AGARWAL et al. 2018 
DistributionMyanmar (Burma, Rakhine Yoma Elephant Range, southern Rakhine State)

Type locality: Rakhine Yoma Elephant Range, Gwa, Gwa Township, Rakhine State, Myanmar (17°35’02.4’’N, 94°40’44.2’’E).  
Reproductionoviparous 
TypesHolotype: CAS 221935 
DiagnosisDiagnosis: Cytrodactylus wakeorum may be distinguished from all congeners on the basis of its possession of relatively short limbs and digits, one pair of enlarged postmental scales in broad contact behind mental; dorsum with relatively smooth texture, with 24 longitudinal rows of tubercles, 31 ventral scales across midbody, ventrolateral folds absent, no precloacal groove, 12 precloacal pores in a single series in female holotype, no femoral pores, subcaudal scales not forming broad transverse plates, dorsal pattern of 6 thin dark bands (one nuchal and five between shoulders and sacrum), each bordered posteriorly by a thin white line, and head without dorsal pattern. Cyrtodactylus wakeorum is superficially most similar to C. consobrinoides and, to a lesser extent, C. annandalei. It may be distinguished from the former by its possession of lack of subcaudal transverse plates, and its patternless head dorsum. It differs from the latter in its greater number of dorsal tubercle rows (24 vs 16–18), smaller number of ventral scale rows (31 vs 43), and light borders around only the posterior margins of the dark dorsal markings. Unfortunately the absence of adult male specimens precludes the use of certain precloacal and femoral pore characters which might further distinguish C. wakeorum from its congeners [from BAUER 2003].


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Comment 
EtymologyNamed after Marvalee H. Wake (born 1939) and David B. Wake (1936-2021) of the University of California, Berkeley. See Zamudio 2021, Hanken 2021, and Bauer 2021 for some biographical remarks about David Wake. 
References
  • AGARWAL, ISHAN; STEPHEN MAHONY, VARAD B. GIRI, R. CHAITANYA, AARON M. BAUER 2018. Six new Cyrtodactylus (Squamata: Gekkonidae) from northeast India. Zootaxa 4524 (5): 501–535 - get paper here
  • Bauer, A.M. 2003. Descriptions of seven new Cyrtodactylus (Squamata: Gekkonidae) with a key to the species of Myanmar (Burma). Proc. Cal. Acad. Sci. 54: 463-498 - get paper here
  • Bauer, Aaron M. 2021. David B. Wake (1936 – 2021), Salamander Specialist and Evolutionary Biologist. Russian Journal of Herpetology 28 (6): 380-382
  • Beolens, Bo; Michael Watkins, and Michael Grayson 2011. The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, USA - get paper here
  • Hanken, J. 2021. David Wake: Why are there so many kinds of organisms (but especially salamanders)? PNAS 118 (27): e2110321118 - get paper here
  • Rösler, H. & Glaw, F. 2008. A new species of Cyrtodactylus Gray, 1827 (Squamata: Gekkonidae) from Malaysia including a literature survey of mensural and meristic data in the genus. Zootaxa 1729: 8–22 - get paper here
  • Sumontha, M., Panitvong, N. & Deein, G. 2010. Cyrtodactylus auribalteatus (Squamata: Gekkonidae), a new cave- dwelling gecko from Phitsanulok Province, Thailand. Zootaxa 2370: 53–64 - get paper here
  • Youmans, Timothy M. & L. Lee Grismer 2006. A new species of Cyrtodactylus (Reptilia: Squamata: Gekkonidae) from the Seribuat Archipelago, West Malaysia. Herpetological Natural History 10 (1): 61-70
  • Zamudio, Kelly R. 2021. David B. Wake (1936−2021). Science 372 (6549): 1399 - get paper here
 
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