Dibamus manadotuaensis KOPPETSCH, BÖHME & KOCH, 2019
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Dibamus manadotuaensis
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| Higher Taxa | Dibamidae, Sauria, Squamata (lizards) |
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| Synonym | Dibamus manadotuaensis KOPPETSCH, BÖHME & KOCH 2019 Dibamus manadotuaensis — KLIUKIN et al. 2024 |
| Distribution | Indonesia (Sulawesi) Type locality: Pulau (= island) Manado Tua off the northern tip of the Minahassa Peninsula of Sulawesi, Indonesia |
| Reproduction | |
| Types | Holotype: MZB Lace. 14728 (ex-ZFMK 95558, Figs. 2–7), a male collected by N. Schneider, donated to the ZFMK in August 1991. Paratypes: ZFMK 95559 (Figs. 4B, 7B), an adult female, and ZFMK 95560, an adult male, with the same locality and collecting data as the holotype. |
| Diagnosis | Diagnosis: Dibamus manadotuaensis sp. nov. can be distinguished from all other congeners by the following combination of characters: maximum snout-vent length 135 mm; tail length up to 14.2 mm (i.e., 12–13% of SVL); labial and nasal sutures present and complete; no enlarged sublabial scale; four (three) postoculars; four to six scales on posterior edge of infralabial; 26–28 midbody scale rows; 30–33 transverse scale rows posterior to head; 25 transverse scale rows anterior to vent; 218–232 ventral scales; 39 subcaudal scales; relative size of frontal to frontonasal 0.68–0.73; relative size of interparietal to surrounding scales 0.67–1.43; 132–135 presacral vertebrae; and 21–24 postsacral vertebrae. Light bands on the body are missing (Table 1). |
| Comment | Known from only the 43 type specimens. |
| Etymology | The specific epithet manadotuaensis refers to the little volcanic island of Manado Tua, the type locality and only known distribution of the new species |
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