2006/06/29 by Fred Kraus, Allen Allison · 3 citations
Environmental Science · Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology · #Amphibian and Reptile Biology #Species Distribution and Climate Change #Lepidoptera: Biology and Taxonomy #Gekkonidae #New guinea #Biology #Gecko #Dorsum #Sauria #Taxonomy (biology) #Squamata #Zoology #Ecology #Anatomy #Lizard #Ethnology
paper · doi:10.11646/zootaxa.1247.1.5
openalex publication_date 2006/06/29 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/06/26
We describe a new gecko, Cyrtodactylus murua, from Woodlark Island, off the southeastern tip of Papua New Guinea. The new species differs from all Papuan congeners except C. louisiadensis (de Vis) and C. aaroni Günther & Rösler in having a single row of enlarged subcaudal scales. From C. louisiadensis, the new species is easily distinguished by its color pattern and by having fewer rows of enlarged dorsal tubercles; from C. aaroni by its larger size and fewer dark dorsal bands. The new species is almost certainly restricted to Woodlark Island and represents the first endemic reptile described from that island.