| Diagnosis | Diagnosis: The following four characters of the new species distinguish it from C. loriae, C. louisiadensis and C. novaeguineae (the species with which C. biordinis is most likely to be confused): (1) size smaller, snout-vent length 65-94 mm for six adults (Table 1); (2) dorsal tubercles relatively small, low, and rounded to slightly pointed and less prominent, in 14-16 rows at midbody and 8-10 rows at the axilla (Table 1); (3) 11-14 preanal pores in a broad chevron, separated by a few scales from a double series of femoral pores on each side (Table 1); (4) three dark, transverse bands on dorsum (not 5 or more). The new species differs most markedly from the three other species listed above as well as other known species of the genus in that males of C. biordinis possess two rows of femoral pores. (Brown & McCoy 1980) |
| References |
- Brown W C; McCoy M 1980. A new species of gecko of the genus Cyrtodactylus from Guadalcanal Island, Solomon Islands. Herpetologica 36 (1) 1980: 66-69 - get paper here
- 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
- Kraus, Fred 2008. Taxonomic partitioning of Cyrtodactylus louisiadensis (Lacertilia: Gekkonidae) from Papua New Guinea. Zootaxa 1883: 1–27 - get paper here
- McCoy, M. 2006. Reptiles of the Solomon Islands. Pensoft Series Faunistica 57, 212 pp.
- McCoy, M. 2015. A Field Guide to the Reptiles of the Solomon Islands. Michael McCoy, Kuranda - get paper here
- NGO, VAN TRI 2013. Cyrtodactylus dati, a new forest dwelling Bent-toed Gecko (Squamata: Gekkonidae) from southern Vietnam. Zootaxa 3616 (2): 151–164 - get paper here
- Oliver, Paul M; Scott L Travers, Jonathan Q Richmond, Patrick Pikacha, Robert N Fisher 2017. At the end of the line: independent overwater colonizations of the Solomon Islands by a hyperdiverse trans-Wallacean lizard lineage (Cyrtodactylus: Gekkota: Squamata). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, zlx047 - get paper here
- Rösler, H. 2000. Die postanale Beschuppung bei Cyrtodactylus GRAY 1827 und Cyrtopodion FITZINGER 1843 - funktionelle und taxonomische Aspekte (Sauria: Gekkonidae). Gekkota 2: 154-207
- Rösler, H. 2000. Kommentierte Liste der rezent, subrezent und fossil bekannten Geckotaxa (Reptilia: Gekkonomorpha). Gekkota 2: 28-153
- 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
- Rösler, H. & S. J. Richards & R. Günther 2007. Bemerkungen zur Morphologie und Taxonomie der östlich der Wallacea vorkommenden Geckos der Gattung Cyrtodactylus GRAY, 1827, mit Beschreibungen von zwei neuen Arten (Reptilia: Sauria: Gekkonidae). Salamandra 43 (4): 193-230 - get paper here
- Tallowin, O. J. S., Tamar, K., Meiri, S., Allison, A., Kraus, F., Richards, S. J., & Oliver, P. M. 2018. Early insularity and subsequent mountain uplift were complementary drivers of diversification in a Melanesian lizard radiation (Gekkonidae: Cyrtodactylus). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 125: 29–39 - get paper here
|
