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Gekko kuhli

Description

Gekko kuhli (Stejneger, 1902)

Figure 5E

Materials examined. MALAYSIA – Kedah • Batu Hampar Recreational Forest; 05.1966°N, 100.5827°E; 40 m a.s.l.; 11.II.2019; Evan S. H. Quah, Hong Zijia leg.; 1 ♂, USMHC 2558.

Identification and natural history. One adult male (SVL 68 mm, TL 62 mm) matched Das’s (2015) and Grismer’s (2011a, 2011b) description in having a robust body; large head; scattered tubercles on dorsum of body and tail; naked tympanum; vertical pupil; 11–15 supralabials; 10–12 infralabials; large fringe of skin extending from periphery of neck, body, hind limbs, and tail which is deeply crenulated along edge of tail and expanded on tip; short and wide limbs; extensively webbed hands and feet; expanded subdigital lamellae; dorsum greyish with wavy dark brown bands; dark, postorbital stripe extending onto shoulder region and unpatterned light yellow venter. The specimen was found on a tree trunk approximately 2 m off the ground sheltering under the fronds of a bird’s-nest fern (Asplenium nidus) along trail at night.

Notes

Published as part of Zijia, Hong, Anuar, Shahrul, Grismer, L. Lee & Quah, Evan S. H., 2021, Preliminary report on the herpetofaunal diversity of Batu Hampar Recreational Forest, Kedah, Malaysia, pp. 791-814 in Check List 17 (3) on page 800, DOI: 10.15560/17.3.791

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Biodiversity

Collection code
USMHC
Material sample ID
USMHC 2558
Event date
2019-02-11
Verbatim event date
2019-02-11
Scientific name authorship
Stejneger
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Chordata
Order
Squamata
Family
Gekkonidae
Genus
Gekko
Species
kuhli
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Gekko kuhli (Stejneger, 1902) sec. Zijia, Anuar, Grismer & Quah, 2021

References

  • Stejneger L (1902) Ptychozoon kuhli a new name for P. homalocephalum. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 15: 37.
  • Grismer LL (2011 a) Field Guide to the Amphibians and Reptiles of the Seribuat Archipelago, Peninsular Malaysia. Edition Chimaira, Frankfurt am Main, Germany, 258 pp.
  • Grismer LL (2011 b) Lizards of Peninsular Malaysia, Singapore, and their adjacent archipelagos: their description, distribution, and natural history. Edition Chimaira, Frankfurt am Main, Germany, 728 pp.