Gekko kuhli
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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.
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- Is part of
- Journal article: 10.15560/17.3.791 (DOI)
- Journal article: http://publication.plazi.org/id/1418FF94D7449D5CFFBCFF8514445653 (URL)
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.