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Cyrtodactylus hontreensis NGO VAN TRI, GRISMER & GRISMER, 2008

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Higher TaxaGekkonidae, Gekkota, Sauria, Squamata (lizards: geckos)
Subspecies 
Common NamesE: Hon Tre Bent-toed Gecko
Vietnamese: Th|n L|n Chân Ngón Hòn Tre 
SynonymCyrtodactylus hontreensis NGO, GRISMER & GRISMER 2008
Cyrtodactylus hontreensis — NGUYEN et al. 2021 
DistributionSW Vietnam (Kien Giang province: Hon Tre Island)

Type locality: Hon Tre Island, Kien Hai District, Kien Giang Biosphere Reserve, Kien Giang province, southwestern Vietnam (09°57.922’N 104°50.678’E), 100 m elevation.  
Reproductionoviparous (manual and phylogenetic imputation, fide Zimin et al. 2022) 
TypesHolotype: UNS 0216, an adult male collected by Ngo Van Tri on 2 September 2006. 
DiagnosisDiagnosis: Cyrtodactylus hontreensis sp. nov. differs from all congeners by the combination of the following characteristics: body slender; SVL 79.7 ± 4.9 mm; occiput without spots or bands; 16 or 17 scales across rostrum; 21–26 scales between eye and nostril; three broad dorsal body bands edged in white between limb insertions; no precloacal groove; seven or eight precloacal pores in males; 2–5 enlarged femoral scales; 40–42 ventral scales between ventrolateral body folds; very low, smooth body tubercles in fourteen irregular longitudinal rows at midbody; 20–24 paravertebral tubercles; 21–22 subdigital lamellae on first toe; 17–19 subdigital lamellae on fourth toe; tail segmented, a shallow middorsal groove present, caudal tubercles; broad dark band at base of tail; enlarged subcaudal scales. 
CommentAbundance: only known from its original description (Meiri et al. 2017). 
EtymologyNamed after the type locality. 
References
  • DAVID, PATRICK; TRUONG QUANG NGUYEN, NICOLE SCHNEIDER & THOMAS ZIEGLER 2011. A new species of the genus Cyrtodactylus Gray, 1827 from central Laos (Squamata: Gekkonidae). Zootaxa 2833: 29–40 - get paper here
  • 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., ... & 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
  • GRISMER, L.L. & JACOB SMITH 2023. Additions to the herpetofauna of Hon Son Island, Rach Gia Bay, Kien Giang Province, southern Vietnam with a discussion of syntopy between the granite cave-adapted Bent-toed Gecko Cyrtodactylus eisenmanae and a new Cyrtodactylus of uncertain taxonomic Zootaxa 5346 (3): 307–316 - get paper here
  • Grismer, Lee; Wood, Perry L., Jr.; Poyarkov, Nikolay A.; Le, Minh D.; Karunarathna, Suranjan; Chomdej, Siriwadee; Suwannapoom, Chatmongkon; Qi, Shuo; Liu, Shuo; Che, Jing; Quah, Evan S.H.; Kraus, Fred; Oliver, Paul M.; Riyanto, Awal; Pauwels, Olivier 2021. Karstic Landscapes Are Foci of Species Diversity in the World’s Third-Largest Vertebrate Genus Cyrtodactylus Gray, 1827 (Reptilia: Squamata; Gekkonidae). Diversity 13 (5): 183 - get paper here
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