Cnemaspis selenolagus, Grismer & Yushchenko & Pawangkhanant & Nazarov & Naiduangchan & Suwannapoom & Poyarkov, 2020

Grismer, L. Lee, Yushchenko, Platon V., Pawangkhanant, Parinya, Nazarov, Roman A., Naiduangchan, Mali, Suwannapoom, Chatmongkon & Poyarkov, Nikolay A., 2020, A new species of Cnemaspis Strauch (Squamata: Gekkonidae) of the C. siamensis group from Tenasserim Mountains, Thailand, Zootaxa 4852 (5), pp. 547-564 : 551-553

Cnemaspis selenolagus sp. nov.

Moon Rabbit Rock Gecko

( Fig. 3 , Fig. 4 ; Table 3)

Holotype. Adult male ( ZMMU R-16391, field Nos NAP-09690/SP-145) collected from montane evergreen tropical forest of Khao Laem Mt., Suan Phueng District, Ratchaburi Province, western Thailand (13.53846° N, 99.20071° E WGS; elevation 990 m a.s.l.) on June 19, 2019, at 21.00 hrs by Platon V. Yushchenko and Kawin Jiaranaisakul ( Figs. 3 , 4A ).

Paratype. Adult male (AUP-00767) collected from montane evergreen tropical forest of Khao Laem Mt., Suan Phueng District, Ratchaburi Province, western Thailand (13.54732° N, 99.20394° E WGS; elevation 715 m a.s.l.) on February 22, 2020, at 20.00 hrs by Mali Naiduangchan ( Fig. 4B ) .

Diagnosis. Cnemaspis selenolagus sp. nov. can be separated from all other species of Cnemaspis by the unique combination of having a maximum SVL of 36.2 mm; 10–11 supralabias; 10 infralabials; smooth ventral scales; six or seven continuous, elongate, precloacal pores in males; 16–18 non-linearly arranged paravertebral tubercles; tubercles absent from lower flanks; a patch of enlarged spine-like tubercles on flanks; no lateral caudal furrows; ventrolaeral caudal tubercles absent; lateral caudal tubercle row present; caudal tubercles note restricted to a single paravertebral row; smooth subcaudals; caudal tubercles encircle tail; no enlarged median subcaudal row; two postcloacal tubercles in males; no enlarged femoral scales; no shield-like subtibial scales; subtibial scales smooth and enlarged submetatarsals on first toe. These characters are scored across all species of Cnemapsis in Grismer et al. (2014) , Wood et al. (2017), and Ampai et al. (2019) and across all species in the C. siamensis group along with diagnostic color pattern characters in Table 2.

Figures

FIGURE 3. Preserved adult male holotype of Cnemaspis selenolagus sp. nov. (ZMMU R-16391) from Suan Phueng District, Ratchaburi Province. A. Dorsolateral view of body. B. Lateral view of head. C. Dorsal view of top of head. D. Precloacal and proximal femoral regions showing arrangement of precloacal pores. E. Gular region showing mental, postmentals, and chin scales arrangement. Photos by Roman A. Nazarov.

FIGURE 4. Type series of Cnemaspis selenolagus sp. nov. from Khao Laem Mt., Suan Phueng District, Ratchaburi Province, Thailand in life. A. Adult male holotype (cat. no. ZMMU R-16391, photo by Platon V. Yushchenko). B–E. Adult male paratype (cat. no. AUP-00767; photo by Mali Naiduangchan).