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A new species of Cyrtodactylus (Squamata: Gekkonidae) from Ninh Binh Province, Vietnam

2016; Q15088586; Volume: 4162; Issue: 2 Linguagem: Inglês

10.11646/zootaxa.4162.2.4

1175-5334

Dzung Trung Le, Truong Quang Nguyen, Minh Đức Lê, Thomas Ziegler,

Species Distribution and Climate Change

We describe a new species of the genus Cyrtodactylus on the basis of six specimens collected from the limestone forest of the Van Long Wetland Nature Reserve, Ninh Binh Province, Vietnam. Cyrtodactylus soni sp. nov. can be distinguished from its congeners by genetic distinction and morphological differences in number of femoral and precloacal pores, femoral scales, ventral scales, lamellae, subcaudals, and dorsal tubercle arrangement, as well as in size and color pattern. In the phylogenetic analyses, the new species is nested in a clade containing taxa from northwestern and northcentral Vietnam and northern Laos.