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Adult female (
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<emphasis id="B911EABCFFE9FFFEF7F153113F24961F" bold="true" box="[199,334,1050,1075]" pageId="27" pageNumber="528">Etymology.</emphasis>
This is the first endemic gecko from
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Description of
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), partially divided dorsally by a weakly developed rostral groove; single enlarged rounded supranasals on either side, separated by a smaller, roughly hexagonal internasal scale which is about three times size of granules on snout; rostral in contact with supralabials I, nostrils, supranasals and a single internasal; nostrils oval, laterally oriented, posterior half covered by a conspicuous nasal pad, each in broad contact with rostral and surrounded by supranasal, supralabial I, and four smaller granular postnasal scales; one to three rows of granular scales separate orbit from supralabials; mental wider (
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) than long (
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), triangular, two pairs of well-developed postmentals on either side, inner pair in broad contact (
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) with each other posteriorly behind mental, inner pair larger (
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) than and separating outer pair (1.2); each inner postmental bordered by mental, infralabial I, outer postmental and a row of four or five gular scales of similar size to other gulars; outer postmentals each bordered by inner postmental, infralabials I and II, a large, roughly hexagonal scale posteriorly and four or five gular scales; eight supralabials to midorbital position and 10 to angle of jaw on each side, bordered by a row of flat, somewhat elongated scales slightly larger than their adjacent granules; infralabials, 10 on right side and eight on left side, infralabials II to V bordered by a row of enlarged scales, anteriormost largest.
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<emphasis id="B911EABCFFEEFFF9F7A152773F7597BD" bold="true" box="[151,287,1404,1426]" pageId="28" pageNumber="529">FIGURE 18.</emphasis>
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<emphasis id="B911EABCFFEEFFF9F61352773C2697BE" box="[293,588,1404,1426]" italics="true" pageId="28" pageNumber="529">Cyrtodactylus nagalandensis</emphasis>
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</emphasis>
in life (adult female holotype, BNHS 2253).
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<paragraph id="8BDA36AEFFEEFFF9F7F152B53A649530" blockId="28.[151,1437,1470,2036]" pageId="28" pageNumber="529">Body slender (BW/TRL 0.4), short (TRL/SVL 0.50); dorsal scales heterogeneous with mostly rounded granules, intermixed with irregularly arranged enlarged tubercles, rounded, conical, feebly keeled, decreasing in size towards vertebral region; tubercles extend anteriorly to interorbital region; tubercles on nape smaller than those of dorsum; dorsal tubercles in 16 or 17 longitudinal rows at mid-dorsum; 35 paravertebral tubercles; a distinct ventrolateral fold on either side covered by a series of slightly enlarged, flat, granular scales; ventral scales much larger than dorsals, smooth, cycloid, subimbricate; a row of enlarged subimbricate scales along posterior border of precloacal pores; 36 ventral scales between ventrolateral folds; gular region with much smaller, granular scales throughout except for one or two rows originating from posterior margin of outer postmentals bordering infralabials, which are larger, flat and juxtaposed. A continuous series of six enlarged precloacal scales each with a shallow depression, precloacal and femoral pores absent, no precloacal groove.</paragraph>
<paragraph id="8BDA36AEFFEEFFF8F7F150233D039349" blockId="28.[151,1437,1470,2036]" lastBlockId="29.[151,1436,151,357]" lastPageId="29" lastPageNumber="530" pageId="28" pageNumber="529">Fore and hind limbs slender; forearm (FL/SVL 0.20) and tibia (CL/SVL 0.20) short; digits short, strongly inflected at each joint, all bearing robust recurved claws that are slightly longer than their associated claw sheath; five subdigital lamellae in basal series and seven in distal series with four non-lamellar granules at inflection (digit IV, right manus); five basal and 11 distal lamellae with one non-lamellar granule at inflection (digit IV, right pes); slight inter-digital webbing between toes IIII, absent between fingers; relative length of digits: I &lt;II &lt;V &lt;III &lt;IV (right manus) and I &lt;II &lt;V &lt;III &lt;IV (right pes); scales on palms and soles smooth, flat, juxtaposed, with those on soles being slightly larger; scales on fore limbs heterogeneous, composed of large, rounded, granular, juxtaposed scales becoming flatter, smooth and subimbricate anteriorly; granules of upper arms larger than those on forearms, sparsely interspersed with slightly enlarged rounded tubercles; ventral portion of fore limbs covered mostly with flat, granular, juxtaposed scales; scales on hind limbs heterogeneous, dorsal part of thighs and shanks with small, rounded, granular scales, scattered densely with rounded, enlarged, feebly keeled tubercles; ventral aspect of hind limbs with enlarged, smooth, subimbricate scales.</paragraph>
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<emphasis id="B911EABCFFEFFFF8F7A150B93F7595EB" bold="true" box="[151,287,1970,1992]" pageId="29" pageNumber="530">FIGURE 19.</emphasis>
Dorsal view (A), ventral view (B), and details of dorsal pholidosis (C) of adult female holotype (BNHS 2253) of
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<emphasis id="B911EABCFFEFFFF8F7A150DA3FD795CB" box="[151,445,2001,2023]" italics="true" pageId="29" pageNumber="530">Cyrtodactylus nagalandensis</emphasis>
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<taxonomicNameLabel id="A22257C7FFEFFFF8F6F250DA3C7E95CA" box="[452,532,2001,2022]" pageId="29" pageNumber="530" rank="species">sp. nov.</taxonomicNameLabel>
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Scale bars 10 mm.
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</caption>
<paragraph id="8BDA36AEFFECFFFBF7F1579C3CFC9349" blockId="30.[151,1437,151,1184]" pageId="30" pageNumber="531">Tail original with tip removed, somewhat rounded, slender, tapering, divided into indistinct segments; eight rows of enlarged, sub-trihedral, strongly keeled tubercles on tail base; approximately four rounded, flattened tubercles form a transverse row at posterior border of each of first three segments; remaining dorsal caudal scales smooth, rounded, subimbricate, similar in size dorsally getting slightly larger on lateral aspect; subcaudal scales larger, smooth, imbricate; a distinct mid-ventral series comprising of two large scales; enlarged smooth post cloacal spurs, three on left side and two on right side.</paragraph>
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<emphasis id="B911EABCFFECFFFBF7F156643C7E93A4" bold="true" box="[199,532,367,392]" pageId="30" pageNumber="531">
Colouration in life (
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).
</emphasis>
Dorsal ground colour of head, body, limbs and tail buff-brown; top of head with numerous dark spots; labials strongly suffused with yellow; a dark postorbital streak that extends beyond ear opening; neck and back with black spots that form longitudinal markings on neck and forebody; limbs with indistinct darker bars and spots; 11 dark and 10 light caudal bands, dark bands more than twice as wide as light bands; rest of ventral surfaces immaculate; iris green-grey with dark reticulations, pupil bordered by orange-red
</paragraph>
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<emphasis id="B911EABCFFECFFFBF7F1552F3CA59011" bold="true" box="[199,719,548,573]" pageId="30" pageNumber="531">
Colouration in preservative (
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&amp;
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).
</emphasis>
Dorsal ground colour of head, body, limbs and tail buff-brown; top of head with numerous dark spots; labials suffused with lighter markings; a dark postorbital streak that extends beyond ear opening; neck and back with black spots that form longitudinal markings on neck and forebody; limbs with indistinct darker bars and spots; 11 dark and 10 light caudal bands, dark bands more than twice as wide as light bands; rest of ventral surfaces immaculate except some mottling toward flanks.
</paragraph>
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<emphasis id="B911EABCFFECFFFBF7F155DC3FF690DC" bold="true" box="[199,412,727,752]" pageId="30" pageNumber="531">
Variation (
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).
</emphasis>
Female
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(BNHS 2254) similar to
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in general colouration but with less distinct longitudinal markings on neck; 10 dark bands on tail. Refer to
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for further variation.
</paragraph>
</subSubSection>
<subSubSection id="C37F6525FFECFFFBF7F154143FF4968C" pageId="30" pageNumber="531" type="distribution">
<paragraph id="8BDA36AEFFECFFFBF7F154143BF791AC" blockId="30.[151,1437,151,1184]" pageId="30" pageNumber="531">
<emphasis id="B911EABCFFECFFFBF7F154143C379114" bold="true" box="[199,605,799,824]" pageId="30" pageNumber="531">Distribution and Natural History.</emphasis>
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<emphasis id="B911EABCFFECFFFBF550542B3DC49114" box="[614,942,800,824]" italics="true" pageId="30" pageNumber="531">Cyrtodactylus nagalandensis</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
<emphasis id="B911EABCFFECFFFBF48054143A7B9114" bold="true" box="[950,1041,799,824]" pageId="30" pageNumber="531">
<taxonomicNameLabel id="A22257C7FFECFFFBF48054143A7B9114" box="[950,1041,799,824]" pageId="30" pageNumber="531" rank="species">sp. nov.</taxonomicNameLabel>
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is known only from the vicinity of Khonoma village, in the Naga Hills. The
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series was collected from a road cutting after dark. We only saw two specimens of this species in two nights of searching. The surrounding forest habitats were mainly secondary forest.
</paragraph>
<paragraph id="8BDA36AEFFECFFFBF7F154873FF4968C" blockId="30.[151,1437,151,1184]" pageId="30" pageNumber="531">
<emphasis id="B911EABCFFECFFFBF7F154873F079189" bold="true" box="[199,365,908,933]" pageId="30" pageNumber="531">Comparisons.</emphasis>
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<emphasis id="B911EABCFFECFFFBF64C54873CAD9188" box="[378,711,908,932]" italics="true" pageId="30" pageNumber="531">Cyrtodactylus nagalandensis</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
<emphasis id="B911EABCFFECFFFBF5E254873D5F9189" bold="true" box="[724,821,908,933]" pageId="30" pageNumber="531">
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</emphasis>
is a member of the mountain clade and is poorly supported as sister to the other Indian species in this clade, with uncorrected
<emphasis id="B911EABCFFECFFFBF33154BA3A7491E4" box="[1031,1054,945,968]" italics="true" pageId="30" pageNumber="531">p-</emphasis>
distance between the new species and other members of the clade 18.021.7%.
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<emphasis id="B911EABCFFECFFFBF58E54DF3A6991C0" box="[696,1027,980,1004]" italics="true" pageId="30" pageNumber="531">Cyrtodactylus nagalandensis</emphasis>
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<emphasis id="B911EABCFFECFFFBF33954DF3A0491C1" bold="true" box="[1039,1134,980,1005]" pageId="30" pageNumber="531">
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</emphasis>
can be diagnosed by the number of ventral scales (36 or 37 MVSR) from
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<emphasis id="B911EABCFFECFFFBF5F054F33D14963C" box="[710,894,1016,1040]" italics="true" pageId="30" pageNumber="531">C. brevidactylus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
(45 MVSR), and
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<emphasis id="B911EABCFFECFFFBF37A54F33B189623" box="[1100,1394,1016,1040]" italics="true" pageId="30" pageNumber="531">Cyrtodactylus jaintiaensis</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
<emphasis id="B911EABCFFECFFFBF24C54FC3EA29619" bold="true" pageId="30" pageNumber="531">
<taxonomicNameLabel id="A22257C7FFECFFFBF24C54FC3EA29619" pageId="30" pageNumber="531" rank="species">sp. nov.</taxonomicNameLabel>
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(4042 MVSR); by having fewer dorsal tubercle rows (1618) from
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<emphasis id="B911EABCFFECFFFBF4F853173A409618" box="[974,1066,1052,1076]" italics="true" pageId="30" pageNumber="531">C. gansi</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
(2025 DTR) and
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<emphasis id="B911EABCFFECFFFBF3C953173F6E9674" italics="true" pageId="30" pageNumber="531">Cyrtodactylus montanus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
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<emphasis id="B911EABCFFECFFFBF63953343F079674" bold="true" box="[271,365,1087,1112]" pageId="30" pageNumber="531">sp. nov.</emphasis>
</taxonomicNameLabel>
(2123 DTR); by its irregular dorsal colour pattern from
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<emphasis id="B911EABCFFECFFFBF32A534B3AA29674" box="[1052,1224,1088,1112]" italics="true" pageId="30" pageNumber="531">C. chrysopylos</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
(dorsal pattern of alternating brown and white bands). Major diagnostic characters for the new species and regional congeners are summarized in
<tableCitation id="C6E70315FFECFFFBF672538C3FF2968C" box="[324,408,1159,1184]" captionStart="TABLE 3" captionStartId="17.[147,226,509,530]" captionText="TABLE 3. Summary of important diagnostic characters for the new species and other Cyrtodactylus species from the region. Abbreviations as in methods. M or F indicates pore counts in males and females in species where females have pores, (N) is sample size for the species or when from literature the source cited, * indicates the presence of enlarged plate-like scales posteriorly bordering the porebearing scale series." pageId="30" pageNumber="531">Table 3</tableCitation>
.
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