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Dixonius noctivagus GRISMER, SINOVAS, QUAH, THI, CHOURN, CHHIN, HUN, COBOS, CHING, MURDOCH, GREGORY, NGUYEN, HERNANDEZ, KAATZ & GRISMER, 2025

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Higher TaxaGekkonidae, Gekkota, Sauria, Squamata (lizards: geckos)
Subspecies 
Common NamesE: Battambang Leaf-toed Gecko (
Khmer: ជីងចក់ស្លឹកបាត់ដំបង (Jing Jork Sloek Battambang) 
SynonymDixonius noctivagus GRISMER, SINOVAS, QUAH, THI, CHOURN, CHHIN, HUN, COBOS, CHING, MURDOCH, GREGORY, NGUYEN, HERNANDEZ, KAATZ & GRISMER 2025: 509 
DistributionCambodia (Battambang)

Type locality: Phnom takriem, Banan District, Battambang Province, Cambodia (13.066612°N 103.03819°E; 58 m)  
Reproduction 
TypesHolotype. Adult male (LSuHC 15154) from collected at 2130 on 20 March 2024 by Matthew L. Murdoch, L. Lee Grismer, Evan S. H. Quah, Pablo Sinovas, Phyroum Chourn, Sothearen thi, and Anthony Cobos.
 
DiagnosisDiagnosis (n=46): Dixonius noctivagus sp. nov. can be diagnosed from all other species of Dixonius by having a maximum adult SvL of 53.4 mm (female) and 49.8 mm (male); 7–9 supralabials; five or six supralabials to the midorbital position; six or seven infralabials; 8–13 interorbital scales; 14–26 interciliary scales; 14–21 ventral scales; 14–20 longitudinal rows of dorsal tubercles; 20–26 paravertebral tubercles; 11–13 subdigital lamellae on the 4th toe; 12–17 subdigital lamellae on the 4th finger; 5–7 precloacal pores in males; 10–13 enlarged precloacal scales; no femoral pores; no dark canthal stripe; dark barring on labials; irregularly shaped dark markings on the head and dorsum; and a row of light-colored tubercles on the flanks (table 6; Supplementary Material 1). (Grismer et al. 2025)


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Comment 
EtymologyNamed after Latin “nox” meaning night and “vagus” meaning vagrant or wandering and refers to this species nocturnal activity. 
References
  • Grismer, L.L., Sinovas, P., Quah, E.S.H., Thi, S., Chourn, P., Chhin, S., Hun, S., Cobos, A., Ching, C., Murdoch, M.L., Gregory, J.J., Nguyen, E., Hernandez, A.P., Kaatz, A. & Grismer, J.L. 2025. A new species of Dixonius Bauer, Good, & Branch, 1997 (Squamata: Gekkonidae) from a karstic archipelago in Western Cambodia. Zootaxa, 5653 (4), 501–523 - get paper here
 
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