Cnemaspis selenolagus Grismer & Yushchenko & Pawangkhanant & Nazarov & Naiduangchan & Suwannapoom & Poyarkov 2020, sp. nov.
Authors/Creators
- 1. Herpetology Laboratory, Department of Biology, La Sierra University, 4500 Riverwalk Parkway, Riverside, California 92515, USA.
- 2. Faculty of Biology, Department of Vertebrate Zoology, Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia. & https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0003 - 2686 - 7334
- 3. Division of Fishery, School of Agriculture and Natural Resources, University of Phayao, Phayao, Thailand https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 0947 - 5729, https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 3342 - 1464 & https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 0947 - 5729
- 4. Zoological Museum, Moscow State University, B. Nikitskaya ul. 2, Moscow 125009, Russi
- 5. Rabbit in the Moon Foundation, Suan Phueng, Ratchaburi, Thailand. https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0003 - 3752 - 453 X
- 6. Division of Fishery, School of Agriculture and Natural Resources, University of Phayao, Phayao, Thailand https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 0947 - 5729, https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 3342 - 1464 & https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 3342 - 1464
- 7. Faculty of Biology, Department of Vertebrate Zoology, Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia. & Laboratory of Tropical Ecology, Joint Russian-Vietnamese Tropical Research and Technological Center, Hanoi, Vietnam.
Description
Cnemaspis selenolagus sp. nov.
Moon Rabbit Rock Gecko
(Fig. 3, Fig. 4; Table 3)
Holotype. Adult male (ZMMU R-16391, field Nos NAP-09690/SP-145) collected from montane evergreen tropical forest of Khao Laem Mt., Suan Phueng District, Ratchaburi Province, western Thailand (13.53846° N, 99.20071° E WGS; elevation 990 m a.s.l.) on June 19, 2019, at 21.00 hrs by Platon V. Yushchenko and Kawin Jiaranaisakul (Figs. 3, 4A).
Paratype. Adult male (AUP-00767) collected from montane evergreen tropical forest of Khao Laem Mt., Suan Phueng District, Ratchaburi Province, western Thailand (13.54732° N, 99.20394° E WGS; elevation 715 m a.s.l.) on February 22, 2020, at 20.00 hrs by Mali Naiduangchan (Fig. 4B).
Diagnosis. Cnemaspis selenolagus sp. nov. can be separated from all other species of Cnemaspis by the unique combination of having a maximum SVL of 36.2 mm; 10–11 supralabias; 10 infralabials; smooth ventral scales; six or seven continuous, elongate, precloacal pores in males; 16–18 non-linearly arranged paravertebral tubercles; tubercles absent from lower flanks; a patch of enlarged spine-like tubercles on flanks; no lateral caudal furrows; ventrolaeral caudal tubercles absent; lateral caudal tubercle row present; caudal tubercles note restricted to a single paravertebral row; smooth subcaudals; caudal tubercles encircle tail; no enlarged median subcaudal row; two postcloacal tubercles in males; no enlarged femoral scales; no shield-like subtibial scales; subtibial scales smooth and enlarged submetatarsals on first toe. These characters are scored across all species of Cnemapsis in Grismer et al. (2014), Wood et al. (2017), and Ampai et al. (2019) and across all species in the C. siamensis group along with diagnostic color pattern characters in Table 2.
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Collection code
- ZMMU, V
- Event date
- 2019-06-19 , 2020-02-22
- Verbatim event date
- 2019-06-19 , 2020-02-22
- Scientific name authorship
- Grismer & Yushchenko & Pawangkhanant & Nazarov & Naiduangchan & Suwannapoom & Poyarkov
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Order
- Squamata
- Family
- Gekkonidae
- Genus
- Cnemaspis
- Species
- selenolagus
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic status
- sp. nov.
- Type status
- holotype , paratype
- Taxonomic concept label
- Cnemaspis selenolagus Grismer, Yushchenko, Pawangkhanant, Nazarov, Naiduangchan, Suwannapoom & Poyarkov, 2020
References
- Grismer, L. L., Wood, Jr., P. L., Shahrul, A., Awal, R., Norhayati, A., Muin, M., Sumontha, M., Grismer, J., Chan, K. O., Quah, E. S. & Pauwels, O. (2014) Systematics and natural history of Southeast Asian Rock Geckos (genus Cnemaspis Strauch, 1887) with descriptions of eight new species from Malaysia, Thailand, and Indonesia. Zootaxa, 3880 (1), 1 - 147. https: // doi. org / 10.11646 / zootaxa. 3880.1.1
- Wood, Jr. P. L., Grismer, L. L., Aowphol, A., Aguilar, C. A., Cota, M., Grismer, M. S., Murdoch, M. L. & Sites, Jr. J. W. (2017) Three new karst-dwelling Cnemaspis Strauch, 1887 (Squamata; Gekkonidae) from Peninsular Thailand and the phylogenetic placement of C. punctatonuchalis and C. vandeventeri. PeerJ, 5, e 2884. https: // doi. org / 10.7717 / peerj. 2884
- Ampai, N., Rujirawan, A., Wood Jr., P. L., Stuart, B. L. & Aowphol, A. (2019) Morphological and molecular analyses reveal two new species of Cnemaspis Stauch, 1887 (Squamata, Gekkonidae) from Satun Province, southern Thailand. Zookeys, 858, 127 - 161. https: // doi. org / 10.3897 / zookeys. 858.34297. figure 13