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Issue: Vol. 3513 No. 1: 10 Oct. 2012
Type: Articles
Published: 2012-10-10
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3513.1.4
Page range: 68–78
Abstract views: 29
PDF downloaded: 1

A new species of Parachute Gecko (Squamata: Gekkonidae: genus Ptychozoon) from Kaeng Krachan National Park, western Thailand

Ranong Marine Fisheries Station, 157 Saphanpla Rd., Paknam, Muang, Ranong 85000, Thailand
Département des Vertébrés Récents, Institut Royal des Sciences naturelles de Belgique, Rue Vautier 29, B-1000 Brussels, Belgium
Nakhonratchasima Zoo, ZPO, 111 M. 1, Ratchasima – Pak Tongchai Rd., Chaimongkol, Muang Nakonrajsima 30000, Thailand
Kaeng Krachan National Park, DNP, Kaeng Krachan, Phetchaburi 76170, Thailand
Kaeng Krachan National Park, DNP, Kaeng Krachan, Phetchaburi 76170, Thailand
Nakhonratchasima Zoo, ZPO, 111 M. 1, Ratchasima – Pak Tongchai Rd., Chaimongkol, Muang Nakonrajsima 30000, Thailand
Vivarium de Lausanne, Chemin de Boissonnet 82, CH-1010 Lausanne, Switzerland
Queen Saovabha Memorial Institute, Thai Red Cross Society, 1871 Rama IV Rd., Bangkok 10330, Thailand
Reptilia Thailand Phetchaburi Province Kaeng Krachan National Park Ptychozoon kaengkrachanense new species taxonomy

Abstract

A new species of Parachute Gecko, Ptychozoon kaengkrachanense sp. nov., is described from montane evergreen forest in Kaeng Krachan National Park, western Thailand. It differs from all known Ptychozoon species by having three dark dorsal chevrons between limbs insertions, homogeneous dorsal scalation without enlarged scales, original tail without long terminal flap, supranasals widely in contact, a continuous series of 14–19 enlarged precloacofemoral scales, bearing 13–17 pores in males, the absence of a predigital notch in the preantebrachial cutaneous expansion and the presence of cutaneous expansions on sides of head. It is the eighth species described in the genus and the only species of Ptychozoon endemic to Thailand.

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