Michael B. Harvey, Kyle A. O'Connell, Elijah Wostl, Awal Riyanto, Nia Kurniawan, Eric N. Smith, L. Lee Grismer
We redescribe Cyrtodactylus lateralis (Werner) on the basis of new specimens. Cyrtodactylus lateralis is a prehensiletailed species, known from scattered lowland to mid-elevation localities in northern Sumatra. The prehensile-tailed Cyrtodactylus are more speciose and have a wider distribution than previously thought. This group includes a mainland SE Asian clade consisting of C. elok, C. interdigitalis, and C. brevipalmatus and an insular clade containing C. durio, C. lateralis, C. nuaulu, C. serratus, C. spinosus, and C. stresemanni. However, a distinctive color pattern in the Wallacean and Papuan species and uncertainty surrounding the type locality of C. stresemanni raise unresolved questions about the inclusiveness of the insular clade. DNA sequence data supports a close relationship between C. elok and C. interdigitalis, but also reveals that C. lateralis and C. durio are not closely related to these species. © 2016 Magnolia Press.
Department of Biological Sciences, Broward College, 3501 S.W. Davie Road, Davie, 33314, FL, United States; Amphibian and Reptile Diversity Research Center, Department of Biology, University of Texas at Arlington, 501 S. Nedderman Drive, Arlington, 76010, TX, United States; Laboratory of Herpetology, Museum Zoologicum Bogoriense, Research Center for Biology, Indonesian Institute of Sciences-LIPI, Jl. Raya Jakarta Bogor km 46, Cibinong, West-Java, 16911, Indonesia; Department of Biology, Universitas Brawijaya, Jl. Veteran, Malang, East Java, 65145, Indonesia; Department of Biology, La Sierra University, 4500 Riverwalk Parkway, Riverside, 92515, CA, United States
