Tri; Ngo Van; L. Lee Grismer

Abstract

Cyrtodactylus bichnganae sp. nov. differs from all congeners by the follow- ing combination of characters: SVL 95.3–99.9 mm; body, limbs and digits long, slender; origi- nal tail long (TL/SVL 1.16); presence of nuchal loop; dorsal pattern consisting of six or seven dark bands on a brown background; nine white rings on tail; pore-bearing precloacal and femo- ral scales separated; 10 pore-bearing precloacal scales in males separated from nine pore-bearing femoral scales on each side by two poreless scales; 18–19 interorbital scales across the frontal bone; 18–19 scales between eye and nostril; 30–31 rows of ventral scales between ventrolateral folds; 16–18 irregular longitudinal rows of smooth conical tubercles at midbody between lateral folds; 26–27 paravertebral tubercles; 16–20 subdigital lamellae on first toe; 21–22 subdigital lamellae on the fourth toe; no tubercles on tail; subcaudal scales transversely enlarged.

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