A new species of Gray, 1827 (Squamata, Gekkonidae) from Yunnan Nangunhe National Nature Reserve, China.

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Kunming Natural History Museum of Zoology, Kunming Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming, Yunnan 650223, China.

Published: January 2025

A new forest-dwelling species of the group is described from southwestern Yunnan Province, China. Phylogenetically, it was recovered as the sister species of , with a genetic distance of 9.2% in the ND2 gene. Morphologically, the new species can be separated from by the discontinuity of enlarged femoral scales and enlarged precloacal scales, the absence of femoral pores, and the difference in dorsal color pattern. In addition, although the new species and are distributed relatively close, their habitats are clearly different. inhabits karst limestone, while the new species inhabits forest. The new species is the 29 species of the group and the third forest-dwelling species of this group.

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http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11729593PMC
http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.1223.137184DOI Listing

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