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Another new Rock Gecko (genus Cnemaspis Strauch 1887) from Pulau Langkawi, Kedah, Peninsular Malaysia
- Source :
- Zootaxa. 2419:51
- Publication Year :
- 2018
- Publisher :
- Magnolia Press, 2018.
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Abstract
- A new species of forest dwelling Rock Gecko, Cnemaspis roticanai sp. nov., is described from the upper elevations of Gunung Raya, Pulau Langkawi, Kedah, Peninsular Malaysia. Cnemaspis roticanai is the second species of Cnemaspis described from Pulau Langkawi and is differentiated from all other Southeast Asian Cnemaspis in having a unique combination of color pattern and scale characteristics including keeled subtibials, ventrals, subcaudals, dorsal tubercles, and forearm scales; 25–27 paravertebral tubercles; a median row of enlarged, keeled subcaudals; five or six precloacal, pore-bearing scales in males separated medially by one or two non-pore-bearing scales; 26–29 subdigital lamellae on the fourth toe; no dark, longitudinal gular markings or blotches; no dark shoulder patch enclosing a white to yellow ocellus; and having a yellow to white, prescapular crescent. Cnemaspis roticanai is the latest species in a growing list of new taxa being discovered from the Langkawi Archipelago.
- Subjects :
- 0106 biological sciences
Dorsum
geography.geographical_feature_category
biology
Ecology
010607 zoology
Cnemaspis
Fourth toe
biology.organism_classification
Southeast asian
010603 evolutionary biology
01 natural sciences
Geography
Archipelago
Animal Science and Zoology
Taxonomy (biology)
Gecko
Cnemaspis roticanai
Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 11755334 and 11755326
- Volume :
- 2419
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Zootaxa
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi...........ba23bfb46075b27b7c64ce7aa2b46a6d