Michael B. Harvey, Kyle A. O'connell, Gabriel Barraza, Awal Riyanto, Nia Kurniawan, Eric N. Smith
We describe Cyrtodactylus psarops sp. nov. and C. semicinctus sp. nov., two new species of bent-toed geckos from mon-tane forests in the southern Bukit Barisan Range of Sumatra, Indonesia. The new species are closely related to one another and to C. semenanjungensis, a lowland species currently known only from Peninsular Malaysia. Three characters of the new species immediately distinguish them from most congeners in the Sunda Region: they lack transversely enlarged sub-caudals, have a precloacal depression, and have a greatly enlarged scale positioned at the apex of a continuous series of femoral and precloacal pore-bearing scales. They differ from one another in cephalic pattern, tuberculation of the brachi-um, and in numbers of cloacal tubercles, dorsal bands, and ventrals in a transverse row. The greatly enlarged scale at the apex of the precloacal pores appears to be a rare apomorphy of these two species and C. agamensis. Copyright © 2015 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
