New species of Ptychozoon (Sauria: Gekkonidae) from the Nicobar Archipelago, Indian Ocean
A new species of Ptychozoon is described from the central portion of the Nicobar Archipelago, Bay of Bengal, India. It has been formerly referred to P. kuhli, a species widely distributed in Sundaland. Ptychozoon nicobarensis sp. nov. reaches an SVL of 100.3 mm, and is diagnosable from congeneric...
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Zootaxa
2009
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| Online Access: | http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/3387/1/Vijayakumar%2C%20S.P.pdf http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/3387/ |
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| Summary: | A new species of Ptychozoon is described from the central portion of the Nicobar Archipelago, Bay of Bengal, India. It
has been formerly referred to P. kuhli, a species widely distributed in Sundaland. Ptychozoon nicobarensis sp. nov.
reaches an SVL of 100.3 mm, and is diagnosable from congeneric species in showing the following combination of
characters: dorsum with a tan vertebral stripe, lacking dark transverse bars; supranasals in contact; cutaneous expansionson sides of head; absence of predigital notch in preantebrachial cutaneous expansion; imbricate parachute support scales; four irregular rows of low, rounded enlarged scales on dorsum; 20–29 scales across widest portion of tail terminus; three
indistinct chevrons on dorsum; 7–11 pairs of preanal pores; femoral pores absent; tail with an expanded terminal flap and
weak lobe fusion at proximal border of tail terminus. |
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