Lepidodactylus lugubris ( Dumeril and Bibron, 1836)
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Lepidodactylus lugubris ( Dumeril and Bibron, 1836) |
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Lepidodactylus lugubris ( Dumeril and Bibron, 1836)
Specimen examined.
SYNU210417 (adult female) was collected by Ming-Hong Huang, Hao-Tian Wang, Xian-Chun Qiu and Pi-Peng Li on 1 May 2021 from Shimei Gulf, Wanning City, Hainan Province, China (18°40'01"N, 110°17'16"E; at an elevation of 5 m).
Morphological description.
Morphological characters of the specimen agreed well with the Duméril and Bibron’s original description (translated by Amarasinghe et al. 2009) and subsequent description of Zhao et al. (1999) in Chinese.
A mature female of medium size (SVL 41.3 mm, TrL 19.9 mm); head depressed, longer than wide (HL/HW 1.17), distinct from neck; snout tapered and rounded at tip, relatively long (SN/HL 0.54), approximately twice of eye diameter (SN/EY 2.2); rostral quadrangular, nearly twice ae wide as high (RW/RH 2.02) and wider than mental (RW/MW 1.53), touching first supralabial and supranasal on each side; nostrils oval, rounded by rostral, first supralabial, supranasal, and two nasals posteriorly; posterior nasal region concave; internasals 2; preorbitals 14/14, preorbital region concave;eye large (EY/HL 0.25, EY/EN 0.63), pupil vertical, elliptic; ear opening small (Ear/HL 0.053), oval, horizontal, smaller than eye (Ear/EY 0.21); distance between ear and eye slightly larger than eye diameter (EE/EY 1.20); mental pentagonal, wider than long (MW/ML 1.51); mental bordered posteriorly by three rows of enlarged gulars that are followed by smaller granular chin scales, distinct chin shields absent; supralabials 12/12; infralabials 9/9.
Body elongated (TrL/SVL 0.48); dorsal scales on head, body, limbs, and throat smooth, granular and juxtaposed in row; tubercles absent; ventrals distinctly larger than dorsal scales, flat, smooth, imbricate, gradually becoming granular from the middle to the sides; ventral scale rows at midbody 41; scale rows around midbody 119; ventral scales in a row between mental and cloacal 167; precloacal scales enlarged, but no enlarged scales on thighs; six rows tiny scales between enlarged precloacal scales and vent; scales on palms and soles smooth; precloacal or femoral pores absent.
Fore- and hindlimbs relatively small but well-developed (FA/SVL 0.12, CS/SVL 0.14); digits well-developed, moderately dilated (T4W/T4L 0.32); all fingers and toes with claws, except the first; claws laterally depressed, extending slightly beyond terminal lamellae; subdigital lamellae narrow and smooth, II-V fingers and toes with 4 divided terminal lamellae, I fingers and toes with undivided terminal lamellae; lamellae extend for more than half length of each toe (T4lamellaeL/T4L 0.63); lamellae under first finger 9/9, under fourth finger 15/15, under first toe 12/12, under fourth toe 12/12; relative lengths of digits on manus and pes I <II <V<III <IV; web present on fingers and toes, toes only one-fifth webbed (T3T4webL/T4L 0.21).
Tail regenerated behind cloacal sacs, moderately laterally depressed, significantly shorter than body (TL/SVL 0.67), relatively wide (TW/SVL 0.13); tail slightly thickened at base, postcloacal tubercles absent; caudals small, flat, smooth, larger than dorsals, slightly larger ventrally than dorsally; divided terminal (Figs 2 View Figure 2 , 3 View Figure 3 ).
Measurements.
SVL 41.3 (mm), TrL 19.9, TL 27.6 (regeneration), TW 5.2, FA 5.2, CS 6.0, HL9.9, HW 8.4, Ear 0.5, EE 3.0, EY 2.5, SN 5.4, EN 4.0, IN 2.0, RW 1.5, RH 0.7, MW 1.0, ML 0.7, T4L 3.8, T4W 1.2, T4lamellaeL 2.4, T3T4webL 0.9, T4T5webL 1.0.
Coloration.
In life, dorsal surface of head reddish brown; a narrow dark brown stripe along the canthus rostralis, crossed the eye, to near shoulder; the major colors of the body, limbs and tail are yellowish sepia, as is the head; a series of indistinct W-shaped markings down the center of the neck and tail, each angular base of the W usually with a small blackish spot, especially the markings at the neck and the base of tail; dark brown stripes all over the dorsal limbs; some light and dark spots on dorsal tail; ventral surface of head milk white, ventral body coverd by lemon yellow band, with brownish spots on each side; ventral tail light brown in forepart and gradual deepening towards the end with dark brown spots (Fig. 2A, B View Figure 2 ).
In preservative, dorsal surface of specimen grayish white, ventral surface discolored to milky white; the W-shaped patterns indistinct, leaving mostly black bars (Fig. 3A, B View Figure 3 ).
Distribution and ecological notes.
Currently L. lugubris is known from almost all over tropical Asia (China, Sri Lanka, India, Myanmar, Malaysia, Vietnam, Japan, Indonesia etc.), Indo-Pacific (Christmas Island)and Oceania (Fiji Islands, Rotuma, New Caledonia, Loyalty Islands, Vanuatu, Tonga etc.), even introduced into the continent of the Americas and the Caribbean ( Behm 2018; Urra et al. 2020; Uetz et al. 2022). In China, this species is only known on Hainan Island (Wanning City) and eastern and southern Taiwan Island (including Orchid Island and Green Island; Lee et al. 2019).
The specimen was found at 20:30 on a banyan tree about 1.5m above the ground near a coastal beach (Fig. 2C View Figure 2 ). Two opal eggs were visible through the skin of the belly.
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