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Cyrtodactylus badenensis SANG, ORLOV & DAREVSKY, 2006

IUCN Red List - Cyrtodactylus badenensis - Vulnerable, VU
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Higher TaxaGekkonidae, Gekkota, Sauria, Squamata (lizards: geckos)
Subspecies 
Common NamesVietnamese: Thãn lãn vach 
SynonymCyrtodactylus badenensis SANG, ORLOV & DAREVSKY 2006
Cyrtodactylus badenensis — NGUYEN et al. 2021 
DistributionS Vietnam (Ba Den mountains)

Type locality: Mount Ba Den, Tay Ninh province, Vietnam (11°23’25’’ N and 106°09’42’’ E).  
Reproductionoviparous 
TypesHolotype: ITBCZ (= ITBMZ) R 05.12 (Institute of Tropical Biology Museum of Zoology) (adult male), collected 4/2/2005 by Hoang Duc Dat, Nguyen Quoc Thang, and Nguyen Ngoc Sang. 
DiagnosisDiagnosis: C. badenensis sp. nov. is distinguished from other species of Indochina by the following combination of characters: enlarged femoral scales and femoral pores absent; 8 – 10 lower labials, 10 – 13 upper labials, 2 internasal scales; 25 – 28 row of the scales across the belly in the middle of body; 18 – 22 subdigital lamellae on the fouth toe of the hind limb. 
CommentHabitat: deep rocky caves.

Abundance: only known from its original description (Meiri et al. 2017). 
Etymologynamed after type locality. 
References
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  • Geissler, P.; Nazarov, R.; Orlov, N.L.; Böhme, W.; My Phung, T.; Nguyen, T.Q. & Ziegler, T. 2009. A new species of the Cyrtodactylus irregularis complex (Squamata: Gekkonidae) from southern Vietnam. Zootaxa 2161: 20–32 - get paper here
  • Grismer, L. L., Wood, P. L., Poyarkov, N. A., Le, M. D., Kraus, F., Agarwal, I., Oliver, P.M., Nguyen, S.N., Nguyen, T.Q., Karunarathna, S., Welton, L.J., Stuart, B.L., Luu, V.Q., Bauer, A.M., O’Connell, K.A., Quah, E.S.H., Chan. K,O., Ziegler, T., N 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
  • 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
  • LUU, VINH QUANG; TRUONG QUANG NGUYEN, HUY QUANG DO, THOMAS ZIEGLER, 2011. A new Cyrtodactylus (Squamata: Gekkonidae) from Huong Son limestone forest, Hanoi, northern Vietnam. Zootaxa 3129: 39–50 - get paper here
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