Kathriner Andrew, Bauer Aaron M, O'shea Mark, Sanchez Caitlin, Kaiser Hinrich
Department of Biology, Villanova University, 800 Lancaster Avenue, Villanova, Pennsylvania 19085, USA; present address: Department of Herpetology, Bronx Zoo, 2300 Southern Boulevard, Bronx, New York 10460, USA; Email: unknown.
Department of Biology, Villanova University, 800 Lancaster Avenue, Villanova, Pennsylvania 19085, USA; Email: unknown.
Zootaxa. 2014 Dec 24;3900(4):555-68. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.3900.4.6.
We describe a new species of bent-toed gecko from a single specimen initially collected in 1924 by Malcolm Smith on Timor Island in the Lesser Sunda Archipelago of Indonesia. Cyrtodactylus celatus sp. nov. is distinguished from all other congeners by the following combination of characters: small adult size; without spinose tubercles on the ventrolateral body fold and along the lateral margin of the tail; 16 longitudinal rows of tubercles at midbody; 42 ventral scales between the ventrolateral folds at midbody; no transversely enlarged, median subcaudal scales; 17 subdigital lamellae (seven basal + ten distal) under the fourth toe; no abrupt transition between postfemoral and ventral femoral scale series. The specimen is the earliest confirmed record of the genus Cyrtodactylus for Timor, and it is the first putatively endemic gecko species described from this island.
我们描述了一种弯趾壁虎新物种，该物种基于一个于1924年由马尔科姆·史密斯在印度尼西亚小巽他群岛的帝汶岛首次采集的标本。新种西里弯趾虎（Cyrtodactylus celatus sp. nov.）与所有其他同属物种的区别在于以下特征组合：成体体型小；腹侧体褶和尾侧缘无棘状瘤；身体中部有16排纵向瘤；身体中部腹侧褶之间有42枚腹鳞；无横向扩大的中位尾下鳞；第四趾下有17枚亚趾片（七枚基部 + 十枚远端）；股后和股腹鳞片系列之间无突然过渡。该标本是帝汶岛西里弯趾虎属最早的确切记录，也是该岛描述的首个可能为特有种的壁虎物种。
