2015/09/23 by Michael B. Harvey, Kyle A. O’Connell, Gabriel Barraza +3 · 1 citation
Environmental Science · Agricultural and Biological Sciences · Immunology and Microbiology · #Amphibian and Reptile Biology #Animal Behavior and Reproduction #Vector-borne infectious diseases #Gekkonidae #Squamata #Biology #Montane ecology #Range (aeronautics) #Hymenoptera #Dorsum #Zoology #Ecology #Anatomy
paper · doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4020.3.5
openalex publication_date 2015/09/23 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
We describe Cyrtodactylus psarops sp. nov. and C. semicinctus sp. nov., two new species of bent-toed geckos from montane forests in the southern Bukit Barisan Range of Sumatra, Indonesia. The new species are closely related to one another and to C. semenanjungensis, a lowland species currently known only from Peninsular Malaysia. Three characters of the new species immediately distinguish them from most congeners in the Sunda Region: they lack transversely enlarged subcaudals, have a precloacal depression, and have a greatly enlarged scale positioned at the apex of a continuous series of femoral and precloacal pore-bearing scales. They differ from one another in cephalic pattern, tuberculation of the brachium, and in numbers of cloacal tubercles, dorsal bands, and ventrals in a transverse row. The greatly enlarged scale at the apex of the precloacal pores appears to be a rare apomorphy of these two species and C. agamensis.