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Table 4 in The Stoor Hobbit of Guangdong: Goniurosaurus gollum sp. nov., a cave-dwelling Leopard Gecko (Squamata, Eublepharidae) from South China
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- 1. State Key Laboratory of Biocontrol / The Museum of Biology, School of Life Sciences, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, Guangdong 510275, China
- 2. Herpetology Laboratory, Department of Biology, La Sierra University, Riverside, California 92515, USA
Description
Table 4. Diagnostic characters distinguishing Goniurosaurus gollum sp. nov. from all other known species of Goniurosaurus. Data come from Grismer et al. 1999, 2002; Orlov et al. 2008; Ziegler et al. 2008; Blair et al. 2009; Wang et al. 2010, 2013, 2014; Yang and Chan 2015; Zhou et al. 2018; Qi et al. 2020; Zhu et al. 2020.
| Character | G. kuroiwae group | G. lichtenfelderi group | G. luii group | G. yingdeensis group (4 species) | |||
| (5 spp.) | (5 spp.) | (7 spp.) | Goniurosaurus gollum sp. nov. | G. varius | G. yingdeensis | G. zhelongi | |
| Scales of upper eyelid one-half the size of scales on the top of head or equal in size | Equal | Equal | Equal or 1/2 | Equal | Equal | Equal | Equal |
| Enlarged row of supraorbital tubercles | Absent | Absent or present | Absent or present | Absent | Absent | Absent or indistinct | Absent or indistinct |
| Eyelid fringe scales | <52 | 43-77 | 41-67 | 59-63 | 50-56 | 46-64 | 42-53 |
| No. of paravertebral tubercles | Unknown | 23-36 | 27-38 | 25-26 | 27-29 | 22-33 | 28-33 |
| Dorsal tubercle rows at midbody | Unknown | 19-22 | 20-25 | 16-17 | 21-24 | 20-25 | 23-28 |
| Scales around midbody | Unknown | 95-140 | 112-147 | 121-128 | 101-110 | 101-116 | 99-109 |
| Nasal scales surrounding nares | Unknown | 8-9 | 5-9 | 7-8 | 7-9 | 7-11 | 6-8 |
| Internasals | Unknown | 1 | 0-3 | 1 | 1-2 | 1-3 | 1-2 |
| Tubercles between orbits | Present or absent | Present or absent | Present or absent | Absent | Present | Present | Absent |
| Claws sheathed by scales | Absent | Present | Present | Present | Present | Present | Present |
| Lateral scales of claw sheaths | Absent | Long, curved | Long, curved | Short, shell-shaped | Short, shell-shaped | Short, shell-shaped | Short, shell-shaped |
| No. of precloacal pores in males | 0 | 17-46 | 16-33 | 10-11 | 10 | 10-13 | 9-12 |
| Posterior shape of nuchal loop | Rounded | Protracted or rounded | Protracted | Rounded | Rounded | Rounded | Rounded |
| No. of body bands between nuchal loop and the caudal constriction | 3 or 4 | 3 or 4 | 3, 4 or 5 | 2,3 or 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 |
| Dark spotting in body bands | Present or absent | Present or absent | Present or absent | Absent | Present or absent | Absent | Absent |
| Lateral spotting on belly present or absent | Absent | Absent | Present or absent | Present | Present | Present | Present |
Notes
Published as part of Qi, Shuo, Wang, Jian, Grismer, L. Lee, Chen, Hong-Hui, Lyu, Zhi-Tong & Wang, Ying-Yong, 2020, The Stoor Hobbit of Guangdong: Goniurosaurus gollum sp. nov., a cave-dwelling Leopard Gecko (Squamata, Eublepharidae) from South China, pp. 137 in ZooKeys 991 on page 137, DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.991.54935
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References
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