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dc.contributor.authorKathriner, Andrew
dc.contributor.authorBauer, Aaron M.
dc.contributor.authorO'Shea, Mark
dc.contributor.authorSanchez, Caitlin
dc.contributor.authorKaiser, Hinrich
dc.date.accessioned2018-05-24T13:28:45Z
dc.date.available2018-05-24T13:28:45Z
dc.date.issued2014-12-24
dc.identifier.citationHiding in plain sight: a new species of bent-toed gecko (Squamata: Gekkonidae: Cyrtodactylus) from West Timor, collected by Malcolm Smith in 1924. 2014, 3900 (4):555 Zootaxa
dc.identifier.issn1175-5334
dc.identifier.issn1175-5326
dc.identifier.doi10.11646/zootaxa.3900.4.6
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/2436/621303
dc.description.abstractWe 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.
dc.language.isoen
dc.relation.urlhttp://biotaxa.org/Zootaxa/article/view/zootaxa.3900.4.6
dc.subjectSquamata
dc.subjectGekkonidae
dc.subjectnew species
dc.subjectCyrtodactylus
dc.subjectLesser Sunda Archipelago
dc.subjectWest Timor
dc.subjectIndonesia
dc.subjectdescription
dc.subjecttaxonomy
dc.subjectosteology
dc.subjectMalcolm Smith
dc.titleHiding in plain sight: a new species of bent-toed gecko (Squamata: Gekkonidae: Cyrtodactylus) from West Timor, collected by Malcolm Smith in 1924
dc.typeJournal article
dc.identifier.journalZootaxa
html.description.abstractWe 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.


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