%0 Journal Article
%T A new karst-dwelling bent-toed gecko (Squamata: Gekkonidae: Cyrtodactylus) from Xiangkhoang Province, northeastern Laos
%A Anatoliy S. Chulisov
%A Evgeniy L. Konstantinov
%A Nikolai L. Orlov
%A Nikolay A. Poyarkov
%A Jr.
%A Olivier S.G. Pauwels
%A Roman A. Nazarov
%J Archive of "Zoological Research".
%D 2018
%R 10.24272/j.issn.2095-8137.2018.010
%X We describe a new karst-dwelling Cyrtodactylus from Ban Thathom, Xiangkhoang Province, northeastern Laos. The new species can be distinguished from other congeners by having four dark dorsal bands between limb insertions, a discontinuous nuchal loop, 10 precloacal pores in males or 10¨C12 precloacal pits (females) separated by a diastema from a series of enlarged femoral scales bearing 18 or 19 pores (male) or 8¨C10 pits (females) along each femur, 14¨C18 dorsal tubercle rows at midbody, no precloacal groove, 30¨C36 midbody scale rows across belly between ventrolateral skin folds, transversely enlarged subcaudal plates, and a maximal known snout-vent length of 75.5 mm. Our description brings to 22 the number of Cyrtodactylus species recorded from Laos
%K Indochinese region
%K Karst
%K Limestone
%K Herpetology
%K Taxonomy
%K New species
%U https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5968862/