Goniurosaurus zhoui ZHOU, WANG, CHEN & LIANG, 2018
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Goniurosaurus zhoui
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| Higher Taxa | Eublepharidae, Gekkota, Sauria, Squamata (lizards: geckos) |
| Subspecies | |
| Common Names | E: Zhou’s Leopard Gecko Chinese: Zhou Shi Jian Hu |
| Synonym | Goniurosaurus zhoui ZHOU, WANG, CHEN & LIANG 2018 |
| Distribution | China (Hainan) Type locality: karst area (at an altitude of 220-300 meters above sea level) in the central area of Hainan Island, China;exact locality withheld for conservation reasons; available to qualified researchers upon request. |
| Reproduction | oviparous (not imputed, fide Zimin et al. 2022) |
| Types | Holotype: private collection, BL-RBZ-002 (apparently an acronym for Bin Liang and Run-Bang Zhou, two of the authors), an adult male, collected by Run-Bang Zhou on March 18th, 2017. Paratypes. Four paratypes, including two adult males (BL-RBZ-001, 007) and two adult females (BL-RBZ-003, 008) collected by Run-Bang Zhou from the same locality as the holotype. BL-RBZ-001 was collected on November 28th, 2015; BL-RBZ-003 on March 18th, 2017; BL-RBZ-007, and 008 on April 16th, 2017. |
| Diagnosis | Diagnosis: Goniurosaurus zhoui sp. nov. differs from all other congeners by a combination of the following characters: moderate size, SVL (93.41–97.35 mm in adults); light purple-brown dorsal ground color of head, body and limbs in adults and mottled with irregularly shaped dark brown blotches; a posteriorly protracted nuchal loop present on nape, and four faint, purple-gray dorsal body bands with dark spots between the nuchal loop and the caudal constriction, bordered by wide dark bands anteriorly and posteriorly; blurred margins of these body bands and dark spots; dark tubercles in the dark spots within the light-colored body bands are always present; iris brown; eight nasal scales surrounding nares; one internasal; 49–62 eyelid fringe scales; upper eyelid scales similar in size with granular scales on the top of the head; absent of a row of slightly enlarged supraorbital tubercles; eight or nine supralabials, 7– 9 infralabials; 130–140 scales around midbody; 19–22 dorsal tubercle rows at midbody; 24–32 paravertebral tubercles between limb insertions; dorsal body tubercles surrounded by 11 granular scales; 36–38 precloacal pores in males and pores absent in females; claws sheathed by four scales, two lateral scales long and curved; two postcloacal tubercles. Additional details (3910 characters) are available for collaborators and contributors. Please contact us for details. |
| Comment | Distribution: see map in Ngo et al. 2023. |
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