Gekko sengchanthavongi LUU, CALAME, NGUYEN, LE & ZIEGLER, 2015
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Gekko sengchanthavongi
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| Higher Taxa | Gekkonidae, Gekkota, Sauria, Squamata (lizards: geckos) |
| Subspecies | |
| Common Names | English: Sengchanthavong’s Gecko Laotian: Kap Ke Sengchanthavong German: Sengchanthavongis Gecko |
| Synonym | Gekko sengchanthavongi LUU, CALAME, NGUYEN, LE & ZIEGLER 2015 Gekko (Japonigekko) sengchanthavongi — WOOD et al. 2019 Gekko (Japonigekko) sengchanthavongi — WOOD et al. 2020 Gekko sengchanthavongi — STUART et al. in WCS 2024 |
| Distribution | C Laos (Khammouane) Type locality: karst forest of Bualapha Town (17°19.444’N, 105°41.576’E, at an elevation of 210 m), Khammouane Province, central Laos. |
| Reproduction | oviparous (manual imputation, fide Zimin et al. 2022) |
| Types | Holotype: VNUF (originally as VFU) R.2014.14, adult male, collected by Vinh Quang Luu and Thidtavanh Suliyavong on 20 June 2014. Paratypes. Two adult males NUOL R-2015.3, IEBR A.2015.33 and one adult female VFU R.2014.16, the same data as the holotype. |
| Diagnosis | Diagnosis: Gekko sengchanthavongi sp. nov. can be distinguished from its congeners in the Gekko japonicus group by a combination of the following characters: a medium-sized gecko species (SVL 67.7–77.3 mm); nares in contact with rostral; internasals absent; postmentals enlarged; supralabials 8–10; infralabials 6 or 7; dorsal tubercles absent; ventral scale rows from mental to cloacal slit 175–184; scale rows around midbody 120–135; ventral scale rows 35–43; webbing weakly developed between fingers and toes; tubercles on dorsal surface of limbs and tail absent; precloacal pores 3+1 or 3+2 in the males, separated from each other by one poreless scales, absent in the female; postcloacal tubercles 2/2; subcaudals enlarged; dorsum with dark bars. |
| Comment | Abundance: only known from its original description (Meiri et al. 2017). |
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