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Gekko fengshanensis HUANG, WANG, QI, SONG, HUANG, WANG & MO, 2025

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Higher TaxaGekkonidae, Gekkota, Sauria, Squamata (lizards: geckos)
Subspecies 
Common Names 
SynonymGekko fengshanensis HUANG, WANG, QI, SONG, HUANG, WANG & MO 2025 
DistributionChina (Guangxi)

Type locality: Fenghuang Village, Fengcheng Town, Fengshan County (24°31'59.25"N, 107°6'45.02"E; 680 m a.s.l.), Hechi City, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, China  
Reproduction 
TypesHolotype. NHMG 202408004 (Figs 5A, 6), adult male, collected on 5 August 2024 by Zhong Huang, Xiao-Wen Liao, Ben-Ze Huang and Yun-Ming Mo.
Paratypes. NHMG 202408005–007 (Fig. 5B, C), adult males, data identical to the holotype: NHMG 240713/SYS r002885, adult female, and NHMG 240714/SYS r002886, subadult male, from Xinglong Vil- lage, Fengcheng Town, Fengshan County (24°31'0.87"N, 107°4'23.97"E; 650 m a.s.l.), collected on 11 July 2024 by the same collector. 
DiagnosisDiagnosis: Gekko fengshanensis sp. nov. is assigned to the subgenus Japonigekko and distinguished from congeners by the following combination of characters: (1) moderate body size, SVL 60.0–79.9 mm in the adult male and SVL 62.2 in the adult female; (2) nares in contact with rostral, internasal absent; (3) enlarged postmentals two; (4) tubercles flattened, present from the region behind the eyes along the neck to the tail base, 8–11 rows at midbody ; (5) ventral scales between mental and cloacal slit 193–213; (6) midbody scale rows 149– 161; (7) ventral scale rows 40–49; (8) subdigital lamellae on first fingers 11–13, on fourth fingers 12–16, on first toes 12–14, on fourth toes 13–15,and fingers and toes webbing weakly developed; (9) continuous precloacal pores 9–12 in males, absent in the female; (10) a single postcloacal tubercle on each side. (Huang et al. 2025)


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Comment 
EtymologyNamed after Fengshan County, the type locality in Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, China. 
References
  • Huang Z, Wang H-T, Qi S, Song H-M, Huang Y, Wang Y-Y, Mo Y-M 2025. A new species of karst-adapted gecko (Squamata, Gekkonidae, Gekko) from Guangxi, southern China. ZooKeys 1245: 289-310 - get paper here
 
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