Another new species of Cyrtodactylus Gray, 1927 (Squamata: Gekkonidae) of the angularis group from the karstic landscape of Phong Nha-Ke Bang National Park, central Vietnam

Duong TV 1 , Vu LV 2 , Vu HTT 3 , Mulcahy D 4 , Bragin AM 5 , Jr NAP 6 Show all authors , Grismer LL 7

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  • 1 Vietnam National Museum of Nature; Vietnam Academy of Science and Technology; 18 Hoang Quoc Viet; Nghia Do; Cau Giay; Hanoi; Vietnam; Graduate University of Science and Technology; Vietnam Academy of Science and Technology; 18 Hoang Quoc Viet; Nghia Do; Cau Giay; Hanoi; Vietnam. duongvantang@gmail.com
  • 2 Vietnam National Museum of Nature; Vietnam Academy of Science and Technology; 18 Hoang Quoc Viet; Nghia Do; Cau Giay; Hanoi; Vietnam; Graduate University of Science and Technology; Vietnam Academy of Science and Technology; 18 Hoang Quoc Viet; Nghia Do; Cau Giay; Hanoi; Vietnam. vulien@gmail.com
  • 3 Vietnam National Museum of Nature; Vietnam Academy of Science and Technology; 18 Hoang Quoc Viet; Nghia Do; Cau Giay; Hanoi; Vietnam. coi.hien@gmail.com
  • 4 Museum für Naturkunde; Berlin; Leibniz-Institute for Evolution and Biodiversity Science; Berlin; 10115; Germany. Daniel.Mulcahy@mfn.berlin
  • 5 Joint Vietnam-Russia Tropical Science and Technology Research Centre; 63 Nguyen Van Huyen Road; Nghia Do; Cau Giay; Hanoi; Vietnam. Bragin98@yandex.ru
  • 6 Joint Vietnam-Russia Tropical Science and Technology Research Centre; 63 Nguyen Van Huyen Road; Nghia Do; Cau Giay; Hanoi; Vietnam; Department of Vertebrate Zoology; Lomonosov Moscow State University; Leninskiye Gory; GSP-1; Moscow 119991; Russia. n.poyarkov@gmail.com
  • 7 Herpetology Laboratory; Department of Biology; La Sierra University; 4500 Riverwalk Parkway; Riverside; California 92515; USA; Department of Herpetology; San Diego Natural History Museum; PO Box 121390; San Diego; California; 92112; USA; Institute for Tropical Biology and Conservation; Universiti Malaysia Sabah; Jalan UMS; 88400; Kota Kinabalu; Sabah; Malaysia. lgrismer@lasierra.edu
Zootaxa, 2024 Jun 21;5471(5):555-571.
PMID: 39646292 DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5471.5.3

Abstract

The Phong Nha-Ke Bang (PNKB National Park in the Central Highlands of Vietnam is a bastion for the protection and conservation of Vietnam's natural heritage. Thus, the discovery of yet another new species of Cyrtodactylus, C. hangvaensis sp. nov., within the PNKB continues to underscore the parks ever-growing importance. Cyrtodactylus hangvaensis sp. nov. is a karst dwelling species of the angularis group that based on a molecular phylogenetic analysis, is most closely related to C. roesleri from the PNKB and C. sommerladi from karstic areas in nearby Laos. Cyrtodactylus hangvaensis sp. nov. occupies a unique position in morphospace where it is well separated from closely related species and other species within the PNKB. It is potentially diagnosable from all other members of the angularis by having a unique combination of morphological and color pattern characters and bearing an uncorrected pairwise sequence divergence of 9.5%-25.5%.

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