Cyrtodactylus bayinnyiensis, Grismer & Wood & Thura & Quah & Murdoch & Grismer & Herr & Lin & Kyaw, 2018

Grismer, L. Lee, Wood, Perry L., Thura, Myint Kyaw, Quah, Evan S. H., Murdoch, Matthew L., Grismer, Marta S., Herr, Mark W., Lin, Aung & Kyaw, Htet, 2018, Three more new species of Cyrtodactylus (Squamata: Gekkonidae) from the Salween Basin of eastern Myanmar underscore the urgent need for the conservation of karst habitats, Journal of Natural History 52 (19 - 20), pp. 1243-1294 : 1253-1258

Cyrtodactylus bayinnyiensis sp. nov.

Bayin Nyi Cave bent-toed gecko ( Figures 4 and 5 )

Holotype

Adult male LSUHC 13265 collected on 11 May 2017 at 2300 hrs by Mark W. Herr, Perry L. Wood Jr., L. Lee Grismer, Matthew L. Murdoch, Myint Kyaw Thura, Evan S.H. Quah, and Htet Kyaw from Bayin Nyi Cave , 16.8 km north-west of Hpa-an, Hpa-an District, Kayin State, Myanmar (16.97048°N, 97.49378°E; 33 m in elevation).

Paratypes

Unsexed juveniles LSUHC 13261–64 collected on 11 May 2017 at 2000–2130 hrs by Myint Kyaw Thura, L . Lee Grismer , Mark W . Herr , Perry L . Wood , Jr ., Matthew L. Murdoch , Evan S .H. Quah , and Htet Kyaw from Hpa-pu Hill , 3.1 km north of Hpa-an , Hpa-an District, Mon State, Myanmar (16.91072, 97.62716; 17 m in elevation) .

Diagnosis

Cyrtodactylus bayinnyiensis sp. nov. differs from all congeners by having the unique combination of SVL 84.1 mm; 7–9 supralabials; six or seven infralabials; 25–27 paravertebral tubercles; 16–19 longitudinal rows of body tubercles; 24–28 longitudinal rows of ventral scales; relatively long digits with nine expanded subdigital lamellae proximal to the digital inflexion on the fourth toe, 13 or 14 unmodified distal subdigital lamellae, 22 or 23 total subdigital lamellae; raised, moderately keeled, dorsal body tubercles in adults; tubercles extending beyond base of tail; enlarged femoral and precloacal scales not continuous; enlarged proximal femoral scales larger (Continued) (Continued) (Continued) nyiensis sp. nov. Abbreviations are listed in the Materials and methods. R = right, L = left, / = data

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Figures

Figure 4. (a) Adult male holotype of Cyrtodactylus bayinnyiensis sp. nov. (LSUHC 13265) from Bayin Nyi Cave, 16.8 km north-west of Hpa-an, Hpa-an District, Kayin State, Myanmar. (b) Juvenile paratype of C. bayinnyiensis sp. nov. (LSUHC 13261) from Hpa-pu Hill, 3.1 km north of Hpa-an, Hpa-an District, Mon State, Myanmar.

Figure 5. Type series of Cyrtodactylus bayinnyiensis sp. nov. from Bayin Nyi Cave, 16.8 km north-west of Hpa-an, Hpa-an District, Kayin State, Myanmar.