Bhattarai Santosh, Gautam Bivek, Neupane Bishal Prasad, Khandekar Akshay, Thackeray Tejas, Agarwal Ishan, Tillack Frank, Olson Ashley R, Hogan Fiona, Wright Wendy
Federation University Australia; Gippsland Campus; Churchill-3842; Victoria; Australia; Nepal Conservation and Research Center; Ratnanagar-06; Sauraha; Chitwan; Nepal.
Biodiversity Research and Conservation Society; Kathmandu; Nepal.
Zootaxa. 2025 Mar 3;5594(3):401-451. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.5594.3.1.
We conduct a review of the known species of Cyrtodactylus from Nepal based on type and topotypical material, resulting in the synonymization of one species and description of three additional species from Central Nepal. The five species of Cyrtodactylus from Nepal are members of the Indo-Burma clade and are at least 11.7 % divergent from known congeners based on the mitochondrial ND2 gene. The results show that C. nepalensis and one of the new species are allied to the C. fasciolatus group while the other two new species and C. martinstolli are members of the mountain subclade within the khasiensis group. The new species can be readily distinguished from congeners in the Himalaya by a combination of body size, meristic characters including number of dorsal tubercle rows and mid ventral scales across the belly, the number and arrangement of pores in males and females, and subcaudal condition.
我们基于模式标本和地模标本，对尼泊尔已知的弯脚虎属物种进行了综述，结果是将一个物种归为同物异名，并描述了来自尼泊尔中部的另外三个物种。尼泊尔的五种弯脚虎属物种是印缅分支的成员，基于线粒体ND2基因，它们与已知的同属物种至少有11.7%的差异。结果表明，尼泊尔弯脚虎和其中一个新物种与条纹弯脚虎组相关联，而另外两个新物种和马丁氏弯脚虎是卡西弯脚虎组中山地亚分支的成员。通过结合体型、可数特征（包括背部瘤鳞行数和腹部腹中线鳞片数）、雄性和雌性的孔数及排列以及尾下鳞情况，这些新物种能够很容易地与喜马拉雅地区的同属物种区分开来。
