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Six new Cyrtodactylus (Squamata: Gekkonidae) from northeast India
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Agarwal, Ishan, Mahony, Stephen, Giri, Varad B., Chaitanya, R., Bauer, Aaron M. (2018): Six new Cyrtodactylus (Squamata: Gekkonidae) from northeast India. Zootaxa 4524 (5): 501-535, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4524.5.1
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