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Lepidodactylus pollostos KARKKAINEN, RICHARDS, KRAUS, TJATURADI, KREY & OLIVER, 2020

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Higher TaxaGekkonidae, Gekkota, Sauria, Squamata (lizards: geckos)
Subspecies 
Common Names 
SynonymLepidodactylus pollostos KARKKAINEN, RICHARDS, KRAUS, TJATURADI, KREY & OLIVER 2020
Lepidodactylus sp. Salawati — OLIVER et al., 2018: 4; fig. 1a 
DistributionIndonesia (West Papua: Salawati Island)

Type locality: “Weybya Camp”, 0.9564°S, 130.7843°E, 75 m. a.s.l., Salawati Island, West Papua Province, Indonesia.  
Reproduction 
TypesHolotype: MZB Lace.5334 (field tag SJR7808), mature male, collected by S. Richards, B. Tjaturadi and K. Krey on 29 June 2005. 
DiagnosisDiagnosis: A species of Lepidodactylus that differs from all congeners in its unique combination of very small size (adult male SVL = 32.5 mm), subcylindrical tail without lateral fringe of enlarged scales, undivided terminal scansors, two divided subterminal scansors on T4, 17 enlarged scales of pore-bearing series limited to precloacal region, 19 precloacal pores, six enlarged scales in a series between apex of pore-bearing series and cloaca, long forelimbs (FA/SVL = 0.12), short snout (SN/HL = 0.39), 14–16 T4 lamellae, eight T1 lamellae, lamellae occupying most of toes (T4lamellaeL/T4L = 0.94), narrow toes (T4W/T4L = 0.29), dark-brown flecks on venter that are most distinct on throat and head, lightto medium-brown scales on venter coalescing into vermiculations across the throat and torso, light-brown postorbital stripe, and plantar surfaces with extensive minute medium-brown punctations and with many entirely medium-brown scales.


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CommentOnly known from the holotype.

Sympatry: Cyrtodactylus irianjayaensis, Cyrtodactylus papuensis, Gehyra barea, Hemiphyllodactylus typus and Nactus sp.. Other species known from Salawati: Gehyra insulensis, probably on Salawati: Gekko vittatus, Hemidactylus frenatus, Lepidodactylus lugubris.

Distribution: see map in Karkkainen et al. 2020: 7 (Fig. 4). 
EtymologyThe trivial epithet, pollostos, is a single-ending Greek adjective, meaning smallest or least, as this is possibly the smallest species of Lepidodactylus. 
References
  • Karkkainen, Denise Taimi; Stephen J. Richards, Fred Kraus, Burhan Tjaturadi, Keliopas Krey and Paul M. Oliver 2020. A new species of small Lepidodactylus (Squamata: Gekkonidae) from Salawati Island, Indonesia. Israel J Ecol Evol 66 (3-4): 180-189 - get paper here
  • Oliver, Paul M.; Rafe M. Brown, Fred Kraus, Eric Rittmeyer, Scott L. Travers, Cameron D. Siler 2018. Lizards of the lost arcs: mid-Cenozoic diversification, persistence and ecological marginalization in the West Pacific. Proc. R. Soc. B 285 20171760; DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2017.1760 - get paper here
 
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