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Gekko cicakterbang (GRISMER, WOOD, GRISMER, QUAH, THY, PHIMMACHAK, SIVONGXAY, SEATEUN, STUART, SILER, MULCAHY, ANAMZA & BROWN, 2019)

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Higher TaxaGekkonidae, Gekkota, Sauria, Squamata (lizards: geckos)
Subspecies 
Common NamesE: Malaysia Parachute Gecko 
SynonymPtychozoon cicakterbang GRISMER, WOOD, GRISMER, QUAH, THY, PHIMMACHAK, SIVONGXAY, SEATEUN, STUART, SILER, MULCAHY, ANAMZA & BROWN 2019: 164
Ptychozoon homalocephalum — CANTOR 1847:626 (in part)
Ptychozoon homalocephalum — BOULENGER 1912:52 (in part)
Ptychozoon kuhli — SMITH 1935: 119 (in part)
Ptychozoon lionotum — MANTHEY & GROSSMANN 1997:247 (in part)
Ptychozoon lionotum — COX et al. 1998:81 (in part)
Ptychozoon lionotum — DAS et al. 1998:131 (in part)
Ptychozoon lionotum — Chan-ard et al., 1999:132 (in part)
Ptychozoon lionotum — KLUGE 2001: 25 (in part)
Ptychozoon lionotum — LEONG et al. 2003: 170
Ptychozoon lionotum — GRISMER, 2011a: 532
Ptychozoon lionotum — GRISMER 2011b: 139
Ptychozoon lionotum — GRISMER et al., 2011: 78 (in part)
Ptychozoon lionotum — GRISMER et al. 2018a: 203 (in part)
Ptychozoon lionatum (sic.) — GRISMER et al. 2006: 161
Ptychozoon lionatum (sic.) — GRISMER & PAN 2008: 278
Gekko (Ptychozoon) cicakterbang — WOOD et al. 2019
Gekko (Ptychozoon) cicakterbang — WOOD et al. 2020 
DistributionPeninsular Malaysia (and east and west coast islands), probably S Thailand, Indonesia (Natuna Besar Island) (Leong et al. 2003).

Type locality: road to the top of Gunung Jerai, Kedah, Peninsular Malaysia (5.8099°N, 100.4367°E, 744 m above sea level).  
Reproduction 
TypesHolotype. LSUHC 10648 adult female collected by Evan S. H. Quah, L. Lee Grismer, Anuar Shahrul, and Jesse L. Grismer on 26 June 2012. Paratypes. LSUHC 5597 adult male collected by Jesse L. Grismer, L. Lee Grismer, and Perry L. Wood Jr. on 23 July 2003 from Pulau Sibui, Johor, Peninsular Malaysia (2.217539°N, 104.069966°E, 16 m above sea level). LSUHC 5783 bears the same data as LUSHC 5597 except it was collected on 1 September 2003. LSUHC 8709 adult male collected by L. Lee Grismer, Perry L. Wood Jr., and Jesse L. Grismer from Pulau Perhentian Besar, Terengganu, Peninsular Malaysia (5.901514°N, 102.746672°E, 123 m above sea level). LSUHC 9059 adult female bearing the same collection data as LSUHC 8709 except being collected on 18 October 2007. LSUHC 9447 adult female collected by Perry L. Wood Jr., Jesse L. Grismer, and L. Lee Grismer from Gunung Machinchang, Pulau Langkawi, Kedah, Peninsular Malaysia (6.386111°N, 99.661111°E, 634 m above sea level). LSUHC 10978 adult female collected by Evan S. H. Quah and L. Lee Grismer on 7 September 2013 from Hutan Lipur Lata Belatan, Terengganu, Peninsular Malaysia (5.579567°N, 102.589028°E, 527 m above sea level). LSUHC 11058 adult female collected by L. Lee Grismer and Shahrul Anuar on 26 June 2013 from Kem Baha, Gunung Stone, Kelantan, Peninsular Malaysia (5.340092°N, 101.966917°E, 511 m above sea level). LSUHC 11418 adult male collected by Evan S. H. Quah and L. Lee Grismer on 26 June 2013 from Pulau Bidong, Terengganu, Peninsular Malaysia (5.620990°N, 103.058062°E, 25 m above sea level). 
DiagnosisDiagnosis: Ptychozoon cicakterbang sp. nov. differs from all other species of Ptychozoon by having the following unique combination of characters: a maximum SVL of 93.4 mm; supranasals not in contact; 9–13 supralabials; 11–15 infralabials; infra-auricular cutaneous flap present; prominent supra-auricular lobe; no dorsal or caudal tubercles; imbricate parachute support scales on dorsal surface of patagia; raised, prominent ridges on ventral surface of patagia; 79–105 midbody dorsal scales; 30–48 ventral scales; pre-antebrachial flap not inserting on the full length of digit V but leaving a space between them; no enlarged femoral scales; 17–25 pore-bearing precloacal scales in males; 18–28 enlarged precloacal scales; 5–8 rows of enlarged post-precloacal scales; 14–17 transverse subdigital lamellae on the fourth toe; 25–34 scales across the widest portion of the caudal flap; enlarged dorsal caudal scales forming intermittent whorls; distal caudal lobes fusing to form a narrow caudal flap; edges of caudal flap weakly crenulated; caudal lobes angled posteriorly; caudal lobes decrease posteriorly in size; no thick, dark, postorbital stripe; four dark body bands between limb insertions; no irregularly shaped, white, vertebral markings; and subcaudal region banded in adults (Tables 4, 5 in Grismer et al. 2019).


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CommentHabitat: trees of varying sizes in primary and old secondary, lowland dipterocarp forests up to approximately 800 meters in elevation (Dring 1979; Grismer 2011a,b; Grismer et al. 2011). On Pulau Sibu, it occurs at sea level on small trees within coastal forest adjacent to mangrove swamps (Grismer 2011a) and can often be found sleeping on the smaller branches of small trees and large shrubs during the day and night less than two meters above the ground (Grismer 2011a; Grismer et al. 2011). On Pulau Lang Tengah, Terengganu, specimens were observed on the ground eating winged termites on a rainy evening during a storm (Evan S. H. Quah; pers. obs.).

Behavior: When alarmed, it may jump to the ground to escape. 
EtymologyThe specific epithet cicakterbang is derived from the Malay word for flying lizards. The word “cicak” means lizard and “terbang” means flight. The term is used for both Ptychozoon and Draco. 
References
  • GRISMER, L. LEE; PERRY L. WOOD JR., JESSE L. GRISMER, EVAN S. H. QUAH, NEANG THY, SOMPHOUTHONE PHIMMACHAK, NIANE SIVONGXAY, SENGVILAY SEATEUN, BRYAN L. STUART, CAMERON B. SILER, DANIEL G. MULCAHY, TASHITSO ANAMZA & RAFE M. BROWN 2019. Geographic structure of genetic variation in the Parachute Gecko Ptychozoon lionotum Annandale, 1905 across Indochina and Sundaland with descriptions of three new species. Zootaxa 4638 (2): 151–198 - get paper here
  • Herlambang, A. E., Riyanto, A., Munir, M., Hamidy, A., Kimura, K., Eto, K., & Mumpuni, M. 2022. AFTER 16 YEARS: AN UPDATE CHECKLIST OF HERPETOFAUNA ON THE NATUNA ISLANDS, INDONESIA. TREUBIA, 49(2), 67-84 - get paper here
  • Lalremsanga, Hmar Tlawmte; Lal Muansanga, Mathipi Vabeiryureilai & Zeeshan A. Mirza 2023. A new species of Parachute Gecko of the subgenus Ptychozoon (Sauria: Gekkonidae: Gekko) from the Indo-Burma region. Salamandra 59 (2): 125–135 - get paper here
  • Syafiq, Muhamad Fatihah; Baizul Hafsyam Badli-Sham, Noor-Shahirah Ibrahim, Lukman H. B. Ismail, Muhammad Afif Mohd Amin, Goh Shu Xian, Rabiatul ‘Aqilah Mohamad Ariffin, Muhammad Afiq-Suhaimi, Lok Kar Men, Dila Adilina Danelo, Mohamad Aqmal-Naser, Muh 2024. TAXONOMIC COMPOSITION, DIVERSITY, AND CONSERVATION STATUS OF REPTILIAN FAUNA AT SEKAYU LOWLAND FORESTS, TERENGGANU, PENINSULAR MALAYSIA. Russian Journal of Herpetology Vol. 31, No. 1, 2024, pp. 14 – 23 - get paper here
  • Wood Jr, Perry L.; Xianguang Guo, Scott L. Travers, Yong-Chao Su, Karen V. Olson, Aaron M. Bauer, L. Lee Grismer, Cameron D. Siler, Robert G. Moyle, Michael J. Andersen, Rafe M. Brown 2019. Parachute geckos free fall into synonymy: Gekko phylogeny, and a new subgeneric classification, inferred from thousands of ultraconserved elements. bioRxiv 717520 [preprint] - get paper here
  • Wood, P. L., Guo, X., Travers, S. L., Su, Y. C., Olson, K. V., Bauer, A. M., Grismer, L. L., Siler, C. D., Moyle, R. G., Andersen, M. J. and Brown, R. M. 2020. Parachute geckos free fall into synonymy: Gekko phylogeny, and a new subgeneric classification, inferred from thousands of ultraconserved elements. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 146: 106731 [corrigendum: MPE 164: 107255] - get paper here
 
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