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A new small bent-toed gecko of the genus Cyrtodactylus (Squamata: Gekkonidae) from the lower slopes of Mount Tambora, Sumbawa Island, Indonesia

Museum Zoologicum Bogoriense, Research Center for Biology, The Indonesian Institute of Sciences (LIPI), Widyasatwaloka Building, Jalan Raya Jakarta Bogor Km. 46, Cibinong 16911, Indonesia
Museum Zoologicum Bogoriense, Research Center for Biology, The Indonesian Institute of Sciences (LIPI), Widyasatwaloka Building, Jalan Raya Jakarta Bogor Km. 46, Cibinong 16911, Indonesia
Museum of Vertebrate Zoology and Department of Integrative Biology, 3101 Valley Life Sciences Building, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
Department of Forest Resources, Conservation & Ecotourism, Faculty of Forestry, Bogor Agricultural University, Darmaga Campus, West Java, Indonesia
Department of Forest Resources, Conservation & Ecotourism, Faculty of Forestry, Bogor Agricultural University, Darmaga Campus, West Java, Indonesia
Department of Forest Resources, Conservation & Ecotourism, Faculty of Forestry, Bogor Agricultural University, Darmaga Campus, West Java, Indonesia
Department of Biology, Victor Valley College, 18422 Bear Valley Road, Victorville, California 92395, USA; and Department of Vertebrate Zoology, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC 20013, USA
Reptilia Gekkonidae Cyrtodactylus new species Lesser Sunda Archipelago Tambora Sumbawa Indonesia

Abstract

We describe the sixth species of bent-toed gecko from the Lesser Sunda Islands, Indonesia. This species was first collected on the banks of the Oi Marai River on the low northern slopes of Gunung (Mount) Tambora on Sumbawa Island. The new species is differentiated from Greater Sunda Islands (including Sulawesi) and Lesser Sunda Islands congeners by having the following unique combination of characters: (1) two scales between the second pair of postmentals in contact with the first pair; (2) dorsal surface of antebrachium tuberculate; (3) no tubercles on dorsal surface of brachium; (4) dorsal surfaces of thigh and crus tuberculate; (5) 18 irregularly aligned, longitudinal rows of keeled tubercles at midbody; (6) 26–27 paravertebral tubercles; (7) 40 ventral scales between indistinct ventrolateral folds; (8) 16–17 fourth-toe subdigital scales; (9) a continuous enlarged precloacal and femoral scales present, with the enlarged femoral scales arranged in three rows; (10) males with five to six precloacal pores, with four larger pores situated in a short groove; (11) femoral pores absent in both sexes; (12) lack of transversely enlarged subcaudal scales; and (13) 7–9 irregular, paired black blotches on the body.

 

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