One more new bent-toed gecko of the Javanese Cyrtodactylus marmoratus complex (Squamata: Gekkonidae) from East Java, Indonesia
Awal Riyanto1, Muhammad A Fauzi2, Ahmad M Kadafi3
1Herpetology Research Group; Research Center for Biosystematics and Evolution; National Research and Innovation Agency (BRIN); Widyasatwaloka Building; Jl. Raya Jakarta Bogor km 46; Cibinong; West Java; 16911; Indonesia.. awal_lizards@yahoo.com.
Abstract:
Here, we describe a new species of Cyrtodactylus Gray from East Java (Dampit, Malang), Indonesia that belongs to the C. marmoratus species group. It is a medium-sized (SVL) species with adult males reaching 65.9 mm in males, 64.3 mm in females; characterized by dorsal tubercle absent on brachium, 1718 dorsal tubercle rows, 3840 rows of smooth ventrals, precloacal depression present in a deep groove, 1517 precloacal pores in an inverse Y shape, 712 femoral pores, 35 poreless femoral scale separated precloacal and femoral pores in males, 2 pairs of post caudal tubercles, second post mentals separated by 57 scales, abrupt transition between rows of large and small postfemoral and ventral femoral scales, and no enlarged subcaudals. The new species is genetically divergent from the other Javan congeners of the C. marmoratus complex with genetic divergences (p-distances) ranging from 15.124.3% for the mitochondrial ND2 gene. This description brings the number of nominal species of bent-toed gecko in Java to six.
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