Cyrtodactylus semenanjungensis ( Grismer & Leong, 2005 )

Figueroa, Alex, Low, Martyn E. Y. & Lim, Kelvin K. P., 2023, Singapore’s herpetofauna: updated and annotated checklist, history, conservation, and distribution, Zootaxa 5287 (1), pp. 1-378 : 103

Cyrtodactylus semenanjungensis ( Grismer & Leong, 2005) — Native; Indeterminate.

Cyrtodactylus semenanjungensis L.L. Grismer & T.M. Leong, 2005: 585 . Holotype: ZRC 2.5627 , by original designation; paratypes (3): ZRC. 2.5603, 2.5077–78, by original designation. Type locality: “ Panti Bunker Trail , Kota Tinggi, Johor, West Malaysia ”.

Peninsular Bent-toed Gecko

( Figure 12D )

Singapore records.

Cyrtodactylus semenanjungensis —N. Baker, 2014f: 331 (“forest at the end of Rifle Range Road” [RRF]).— I.S. Law, I.T. Law & Serin, 2016: 117.—Figueroa & I.S. Law, 2021: 1, 4.— Janssen & Sy, 2022: 157.

Remarks. On 25 October 2007, Baker (2014f) photographed an individual of C. semenanjungensis walking over leaf litter at SRF ( Fig. 12D ). As presently known, C. semenanjungensis ranges from Jemaluang south to Gunung Panti Forest Reserve in southeastern Peninsular Malaysia ( Grismer 2011b). Given its southern distribution in Peninsular Malaysia, it inhabiting lowland forest below 150 m adjacent to freshwater swamp forest ( Grismer & Leong 2005; Grismer 2011b), and the recent discoveries of C. pantiensis and C. quadrivirgatus in Singapore ( Lim et al. 2016; Figueroa & Law 2021), we believe C. semenanjungensis occurs naturally in Singapore. As expressed in Figueroa & Law (2020), more work is needed to understand the distribution of Cyrtodactylus spp. in Singapore.

Occurrence. Only known from one specimen at RRF. Rare.

Singapore conservation status. Critically Endangered.

Conservation priority. Highest.

IUCN conservation status. Near-Threatened [2018].

LKCNHM & NHMUK Museum specimens. No specimens.

Additional Singapore museum specimens. No specimens.

Singapore localities. Rifle Range Forest.

Genus Gehyra Gray, 1834 (1 species)

Figures

FIGURE 12. A) Cyrtodactylus majulah, B) Cyrtodactylus pantiensis, C) Cyrtodactylus quadrivirgatus, D) Cyrtodactylus semenanjungensis, E) Gehyra mutilata, F) Gekko browni, G) Gekko gecko, and H) Gekko horsfieldii. Photographs by: Alex Figueroa [A, C, G], Tan Heok Hui [B], Nick Baker [D], and Kelvin K.P. Lim [E–F, H].