2014/12/23 by Andrew Kathriner, Aaron M. Bauer, Mark O’Shea +2 · 1 citation
Environmental Science · Medicine · Immunology and Microbiology · #Amphibian and Reptile Biology #Mosquito-borne diseases and control #Vector-borne infectious diseases #Gekkonidae #Squamata #Gecko #Biology #Anatomy #Zoology #Genus
paper · doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3900.4.6
openalex publication_date 2014/12/23 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
We describe a new species of bent-toed gecko from a single specimen initially collected in 1924 by Malcolm Smith on Timor Island in the Lesser Sunda Archipelago of Indonesia. Cyrtodactylus celatus sp. nov. is distinguished from all other congeners by the following combination of characters: small adult size; without spinose tubercles on the ventrolateral body fold and along the lateral margin of the tail; 16 longitudinal rows of tubercles at midbody; 42 ventral scales between the ventrolateral folds at midbody; no transversely enlarged, median subcaudal scales; 17 subdigital lamellae (seven basal + ten distal) under the fourth toe; no abrupt transition between postfemoral and ventral femoral scale series. The specimen is the earliest confirmed record of the genus Cyrtodactylus for Timor, and it is the first putatively endemic gecko species described from this island.