Cyrtodactylus guwahatiensis Agarwal, Mahony, Giri, Chaitanya & Bauer 2018
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https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4732.3.2 |
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https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3671680 |
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Cyrtodactylus guwahatiensis Agarwal, Mahony, Giri, Chaitanya & Bauer 2018 |
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Cyrtodactylus guwahatiensis Agarwal, Mahony, Giri, Chaitanya & Bauer 2018
Figs. 3–4 View FIGURE 3 View FIGURE 4 , Table 3 View TABLE 3
Holotype. Adult male ( BNHS 2146 View Materials ), collected from Hengrabari Road , Guwahati, Assam State, India (26.16193° N, 91.78298° E) by Ishan Agarwal, 11 June 2009. GoogleMaps
Referred Material. Adult males (VR/ ERS /ZSI/690, VR/ ERS /ZSI/691, VR/ ERS /ZSI/693, VR/ ERS /ZSI/694 and VR/ ERS /ZSI/696) and females (VR/ ERS /ZSI/692 and VR/ ERS /ZSI/695), all collected from Geetanagar, Guwahati (26.16873° N, 91.79417° E) by Sanath Bohra, 24 June 2018.
Diagnosis. Cyrtodactylus guwahatiensis sp. nov. can be distinguished from all congeners by its moderate body size (SVL to 70.5 mm); 8–11 supralabials; 8–10 infralabials; 21–24 longitudinal rows of bluntly conical, feebly keeled dorsal tubercles; tubercles extending till third segment of tail; 35–38 paravertebral tubercles; 30–35 mid-ventral scales; no precloacal groove; 26–39 precloacofemoral pores in a contiguous series (interrupted by 11 unpored scales in only the holotype); a row of enlarged scales above and below precloacal pore-bearing scales, slightly larger than pore-bearing scales; 13–16 total subdigital lamellae beneath toe IV of pes; subcaudal scalation of original tail without enlarged plates; dorsal pattern of 8–10 transverse rows of two or three pale buff blotches outlined by thick dark reticulations. Tail with alternating dark and lighter bands.
Distribution and Natural History. This species is only known from a disturbed forest and residential areas of Guwahati, Assam; based on voucher specimens from Hengrabari and Geetanagar and photographic records from Assam State Zoo and Kharguli hills. The species has been observed on loose soil, secondary plantations and trees surrounded by rocks. One individual was spotted inside a dry well. Gravid females were observed between month of April and August. Their diet consists of small arthropods including cockroaches, spiders and beetles.
TABLE 3. Morphometric and meristic data for Cyrtodactylus guwahatiensis from Guwahati, Assam, India. + indicates incomplete tail Voucher no. VR/ERS/ VR/ERS/ VR/ERS/ VR/ERS/ VR/ERS/ VR/ERS/ VR/ERS/ ZSI/690 ZSI/694 ZSI/693 ZSI/696 ZSI/691 ZSI/692 ZSI/695
| Voucher no. | VR/ERS/ | VR/ERS/ | VR/ERS/ | VR/ERS/ | VR/ERS/ | VR/ERS/ | VR/ERS/ |
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| ZSI/690 | ZSI/694 | ZSI/693 | ZSI/696 | ZSI/691 | ZSI/692 | ZSI/695 | |
| Locality | Hengrabari | Gitanagar | Gitanagar | Gitanagar | Hengrabari | Hengrabari | Gitanagar |
| Sex | M | M | M | M | M | F | F |
| SVL | 68.1 | 69.6 | 66.4 | 61.9 | 67.4 | 70.5 | 69.8 |
| TRL | 31.6 | 31 | 28.3 | 26.6 | 23.7 | 31.6 | 28.8 |
| BW | 11 | 12.5 | 10.7 | 10.8 | 13.1 | 11.9 | 12.6 |
| TL | 55.6+ | 58.5 | 68 | 54.5 | 83.6 | 80.2 | 76.6 |
| TW | 6.5 | 7.9 | 6.8 | 6.7 | 6.1 | 6.8 | 5.7 |
| HL | 17.9 | 18.2 | 18.1 | 17.2 | 17.8 | 18.5 | 19.5 |
| HW | 12.5 | 13.4 | 12.3 | 11.7 | 12.4 | 12.9 | 14.2 |
| HD | 8.2 | 8 | 7.5 | 6.6 | 7.4 | 8.7 | 8.1 |
| FL | 8.9 | 8.6 | 8.9 | 8.8 | 8.9 | 9.8 | 9.8 |
| CL | 10.0 | 11.5 | 11.8 | 10.8 | 11.2 | 11.4 | 12.6 |
| OD | 3.6 | 4.2 | 3.5 | 3.5 | 3 | 3.5 | 3.9 |
| NE | 5.5 | 5.4 | 5.2 | 6.6 | 5.5 | 5.2 | 5.9 |
| SE | 7.1 | 7.6 | 7.9 | 7.8 | 7.2 | 7.8 | 7.5 |
| EE | 5.7 | 5.8 | 5.7 | 4.9 | 5 | 5.3 | 5 |
| EL | 1.2 | 1.9 | 1.9 | 2.1 | 1.4 | 1.2 | 2.3 |
| IN | 2.1 | 2.1 | 2.3 | 1.8 | 1.7 | 2.1 | 2.2 |
| IO | 4.3 | 2 | 1.9 | 2.1 | 1.3 | 2.9 | 2.7 |
| F1 | 3.8 | 2.5 | 2.3 | 3.6 | 3.7 | 2.8 | 3.2 |
| F2 | 4.3 | 4.6 | 4.2 | 4.5 | 5 | 4.4 | 4.3 |
| F3 | 4.5 | 4.7 | 5.0 | 5.2 | 5.7 | 4.8 | 5.7 |
| F4 | 5.3 | 6.2 | 5.4 | 6.1 | 6.2 | 6.1 | 6.1 |
| F5 | 5.1 | 3.6 | 4.0 | 4.1 | 5.1 | 4.2 | 4.9 |
| T1 | 3.1 | 3.4 | 2.5 | 2.8 | 3.6 | 2.5 | 3.2 |
| T2 | 4.4 | 4.0 | 3.8 | 4.2 | 5.8 | 4.4 | 4.0 |
| T3 | 5.2 | 6.3 | 5.8 | 5.5 | 7.1 | 5.6 | 6.6 |
| T4 | 6.9 | 7.5 | 6.8 | 6.6 | 7.6 | 6.8 | 7.0 |
| T5 | 5.1 | 7.0 | 5.2 | 5.3 | 5.2 | 5.6 | 6.1 |
| RL | 1.7 | 2.7 | 2.5 | 2.1 | 2.3 | 2.4 | 2.3 |
| RW | 2.4 | 3.8 | 3.5 | 2.9 | 3 | 2.6 | 3.2 |
| PcP | 39 | 35 | 36 | 39 | |||
| MVSR | 30 | 35 | 34 | 33 | 34 | 30 | 33 |
| PVT | 36 | 37 | 36 | 38 | 38 | 38 | 35 |
| DTR | 21 | 22 | 22 | 23 | 22 | 23 | 22 |
| SL(R/L) | 10,11 | 10,9 | 10,10 | 11,11 | 10,9 | 8,8 | 10,9 |
| IL(R/L | 8,8 | 10,9 | 9,8 | 9,9 | 10,9 | 8,8 | 9,8 |
| Lam Manus (4th) | 17 | 17 | 18 | 17 | 18 | 17 | 15 |
| Lam Pes (4th) | 20 | 19 | 18 | 19 | 21 | 19 | 19 |
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