Cyrtodactylus sp.

Karin, Benjamin R., Stubbs, Alexander L., Arifin, Umilaela, Bloch, Luke M., Ramadhan, G., Iskandar, Djoko T., Arida, Evy, Reilly, Sean B., Kusnadi, Agus & Mcguire, Jimmy A., 2018, The herpetofauna of the Kei Islands (Maluku, Indonesia): Comprehensive report on new and historical collections, biogeographic patterns, conservation concerns, and an annotated checklist of species from Kei Kecil, Kei Besar, Tam, and Kur, Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 66, pp. 704-738 : 716-717

Cyrtodactylus sp.

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Distribution in the Kei Islands. All islands. We collected a species of Cyrtodactylus from Kei Kecil, Tam, and Kur, of which the latter two represent new records for these islands. The AM and WAM expeditions collected an unidentified species of Cyrtodactylus from Kei Besar that we expect to be the same species.

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Fig. 9. Dorsal and ventral views of Cyrtodactylus sp. collected from Kei Besar (ALS 767; ALS 771).

Natural history. This small-bodied Cyrtodactylus is abundant on Kei Kecil and Kei Besar and is common at night on limestone outcroppings within relatively dense forest. They can sometimes be found on the trunks of trees, though less often.

Field identification. Cyrtodactylus sp. and Nactus pelagicus are the only geckos on the Kei Islands that lack dilated scansors on the digits. Cyrtodactylus sp. is easily distinguished by its uniformly-distributed keeled tubercles across the body, as opposed to being arranged in distinct rows in Nactus . We examined 11 females and 9 males collected from Kei Kecil in 2011. Head and eyes large; forehead concave; limbs and digits elongate; postorbital stripe extending posteriorly from the orbit to above the ear opening; body colour inconsistent among samples, usually speckled or uniform dark, sometimes pale with small dark spots; posterior half of tail banded. SVL to 80 mm.

Remarks. Roux (1910) was the first to report a Cyrtodactylus from the Kei Islands and referred the specimens to C. marmoratus and subsequent collections have maintained this identification without further investigation. Confusion over the type of C. marmoratus associated with a type series from multiple clades on Java was clarified by Mecke et al. (2016). Cyrtodactylus across Indonesia are very diverse with many undescribed species ( Wood et al., 2012) and the population in the Kei Islands is likely undescribed.