Gehyra mutilata ( Wiegmann, 1834b )
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Gehyra mutilata ( Wiegmann, 1834b)
Materials examined. MALAYSIA – Kedah • Batu Hampar Recreational Forest ; 05.1966°N, 100.5827°E; 40 m a.s.l.; 23.IX.2018; Evan S. H. Quah, Hong Zijia leg.; 1 ♂, USMHC 2463 , 1 ♀, USMHC 2464 GoogleMaps .
Identification and natural history. One adult male ( USMHC 2463, SVL 56 mm, TL 45 mm) and one adult female ( USMHC 2464, SVL 55 mm, TL 42 mm) matched Das’s (2015) and Grismer’s (2011a, 2011b) diagnosis in having robust body; large head; naked tympanum;
vertical pupil; delicate skin; flattened tail that widens at base; large and flat scales on venter and tail; short and wide limbs; claw on inner digit absent; slightly webbed hands and feet; expanded subdigital lamellae; pale and translucent grey dorsum and pale pink venter. Both specimens were found on the walls of buildings in the area at night.
Grismer LL (2011 a) Field Guide to the Amphibians and Reptiles of the Seribuat Archipelago, Peninsular Malaysia. Edition Chimaira, Frankfurt am Main, Germany, 258 pp.
Grismer LL (2011 b) Lizards of Peninsular Malaysia, Singapore, and their adjacent archipelagos: their description, distribution, and natural history. Edition Chimaira, Frankfurt am Main, Germany, 728 pp.
Wiegmann AFA (1834 b) Beitrage zur Zoologie gesammelt auf einer Reise um die Erde. Siebente Abhandlung. Amphibien. In: Meyen FJF (Ed.) Nova acta physico-medica Academiae Caesareae Leopoldino-Carolinae Naturae Curiosum (Vol. 17). Eduard Weber's Buchhandlung, Bonn, Germany, 185 - 268.
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