Quah Evan S H, Grismer L Lee, Wood Perry L Jr, Mohd Sah Shahrul Anuar
School of Biological Sciences, Universiti Sains Malaysia, 11800 Minden, Penang, Malaysia. E- Herpetology Laboratory, Department of Biology, La Sierra University, 4500 Riverwalk Parkway, Riverside, California 92515, USA.
Zootaxa. 2019 Sep 9;4668(1):zootaxa.4668.1.3. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.4668.1.3.
A new species of limestone karst-adapted gecko of the Cyrtodactylus pulchellus complex, C. dayangbuntingensis sp. nov., is described from Dayang Bunting Island of the Langkawi Archipelago off the northwest coast of Peninsular Malaysia. It is the third species of the group to be described from the archipelago after C. langkawiensis and C. macrotuberculatus. The new species can be distinguished from all other species of Cyrtodactylus based on molecular evidence from the mitochondrial gene ND2 and its flanking tRNAs as well as having unique combinations of morphological and color pattern characteristics. This discovery underscores the need for continued surveys of the many islands in the archipelago to properly ascertain its true herpetological diversity.
描述了一种来自马来西亚半岛西北海岸兰卡威群岛大洋邦廷岛的新物种，即适应石灰岩喀斯特环境的弯脚虎属（Cyrtodactylus pulchellus复合体）的大洋邦廷弯脚虎（C. dayangbuntingensis sp. nov.）。它是该群岛继兰卡威弯脚虎（C. langkawiensis）和大结节弯脚虎（C. macrotuberculatus）之后被描述的该类群的第三个物种。基于线粒体基因ND2及其侧翼tRNA的分子证据，以及具有独特的形态和色斑特征组合，该新物种可与弯脚虎属的所有其他物种区分开来。这一发现强调了对该群岛众多岛屿持续进行调查的必要性，以便正确确定其真正的爬行动物多样性。
