Singapore’s herpetofauna: updated and annotated checklist, history, conservation, and distribution
Author
Figueroa, Alex
Author
Low, Martyn E. Y.
0000-0001-7927-7149
martyn.low@nus.edu.sg
Author
Lim, Kelvin K. P.
0000-0002-0638-9198
kelvinlim@nus.edu.sg
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Zootaxa
2023
2023-05-18
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http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5287.1.1
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Cyrtodactylus semenanjungensis
(
Grismer & Leong, 2005
)
—
Native; Indeterminate.
Cyrtodactylus semenanjungensis
L.L. Grismer & T.M. Leong, 2005: 585
.
Holotype
:
ZRC 2.5627
, by original designation;
paratypes
(3): ZRC. 2.5603, 2.5077–78, by original designation. Type locality: “
Panti Bunker Trail
,
Kota Tinggi
,
Johor
,
West
Malaysia
”.
Peninsular Bent-toed
Gecko
(
Figure 12D
)
Singapore
records.
Cyrtodactylus semenanjungensis
—N.
Baker, 2014f: 331
(“forest at the end of Rifle Range Road” [RRF]).— I.S. Law, I.T.
Law & Serin, 2016: 117
.—Figueroa & I.S.
Law, 2021: 1
, 4.—
Janssen & Sy, 2022: 157
.
Remarks.
On
25 October 2007
,
Baker (2014f)
photographed an individual of
C. semenanjungensis
walking over leaf litter at SRF (
Fig. 12D
). As presently known,
C. semenanjungensis
ranges from Jemaluang south to Gunung Panti Forest Reserve in southeastern Peninsular
Malaysia
(
Grismer 2011b
). Given its southern distribution in Peninsular
Malaysia
, it inhabiting lowland forest below
150 m
adjacent to freshwater swamp forest (
Grismer & Leong 2005
;
Grismer 2011b
), and the recent discoveries of
C. pantiensis
and
C. quadrivirgatus
in
Singapore
(
Lim
et al.
2016
;
Figueroa & Law 2021
), we believe
C. semenanjungensis
occurs naturally in
Singapore
. As expressed in Figueroa & Law (2020), more work is needed to understand the distribution of
Cyrtodactylus
spp.
in
Singapore
.
Occurrence.
Only known from
one specimen
at RRF. Rare.
Singapore
conservation status.
Critically Endangered.
Conservation priority.
Highest.
IUCN conservation status.
Near-Threatened [2018].
LKCNHM
&
NHMUK
Museum specimens.
No specimens.
Additional
Singapore
museum specimens.
No specimens.
Singapore
localities.
Rifle Range Forest.
Genus
Gehyra
Gray, 1834
(1 species)