Hemiphyllodactylus zalonicus GRISMER, CHIT, PAWANGKHANANT, NAZAROV, ZAW & POYARKOV, 2021
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Hemiphyllodactylus zalonicus
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| Higher Taxa | Gekkonidae, Gekkota, Sauria, Squamata (lizards: geckos) |
| Subspecies | |
| Common Names | E: Mt. Zalon Slender Gecko Burmese: Zalontaung Ein Myaung Twal |
| Synonym | Hemiphyllodactylus zalonicus GRISMER, CHIT, PAWANGKHANANT, NAZAROV, ZAW & POYARKOV 2021 |
| Distribution | Myanmar (Sagaing Region) Type locality: evergreen dipterocarp tropical forest on the slope of Zalon Mountain (Zalon Taung), ca. 1 km westwards from the Zalon Taung Pagoda, Zalon Taung National Forest, ca. 13 km northwards from Ban Mauk town, Ban Mauk District, Sagaing Region, northern Myanmar (GPS data N 24.51628°, E 095.81705° WGS; elevation 690 m a.s.l.) |
| Reproduction | |
| Types | Holotype: ZMMU R-16635, adult female (field ID NAP-09556) collected on 2 August 2019, at 18:00 h by P. Pawangkhanant, May Thu Chit and N.A. Poyarkov. Paratype: ZDUM-2019.12.29–038, adult female (field ID MTZ-00038), collected from a rock at the same locality as the holotype on 29 December 2019, at 23:30 h by May Thu Chit. |
| Diagnosis | Diagnosis: Hemiphyllodactylus zalonicus sp. nov. can be distinguished from all other congeners by possessing the unique combination of having a maximum SVL of 37.7 mm, trunk not particularly elongate or gracile (AG/SVL ratio 0.49); eight to ten chin scales; enlarged post- mentals; five circumnasal scales; four intersupranasals (= postrostrals); 10 supralabials; eight infralabials; 18 longitudinal rows of dorsal scales and nine longitudinal rows of ventral scales at midbody contained within one eye diameter; 3333 digital formulas on hands and 3444 formulas on the feet; three subdigital lamellae on the first finger and four subdigital lamellae on the first toe; perforated femoroprecloacal scales; 16 perforated precloacal scales that extend part-way onto the proximal femoral region; one cloacal spur on each side; no plate- like subcaudal scales; a dark postorbital stripe extending to at least base of neck; no dorsolateral light-coloured spots or dark dorsolateral stripe on trunk; no dark ventrolateral stripe on trunk; dark paravertebral markings on trunk; no light-coloured postsacral marking bearing anteriorly projecting arms; and caecum and gonads pigmented. These characters are scored across all species in the Indochina clade, all Thai species and all other species of Hemiphyllodactylus from Myanmar in Grismer et al. (2017, Grismer et al. 2018a, 2020a, 2020b), Sukprasert et al. (2018), and Eliades et al. (2019). |
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| Etymology | The specific epithet zalonicus is a Latinised toponymic adjective in nominative singular given in reference to the type locality of Mt. Zalon (Zalon Taung) in Sagaing Region of northern Myanmar. |
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