Cyrtodactylus feae, (BOULENGER, 1893)

Grismer, L. Lee, Wood, Perry L., Jr., Thura, Myint Kyaw, Zin, Thaw, Quah, Evan S. H., Murdoch, Matthew L., Grismer, Marta S., Lin, Aung, Kyaw, Htet & Lwin, Ngwe, 2018, Twelve new species of Cyrtodactylus Gray (Squamata: Gekkonidae) from isolated limestone habitats in east-central and southern Myanmar demonstrate high localized diversity and unprecedented microendemism, Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 182, pp. 862-959 : 951-952

CYRTODACTYLUS FEAE ( BOULENGER, 1893)

Type locality: ‘ Puepoli, Karin Bia-po, elevation: 3200– 3400 feet’ Kayah State, Myanmar. Holotype: in the Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Genova , Genova, Italy. Catalogue number unknown.

Remarks: The specimen of ‘ Cyrtodactylus feae ’ ( USNM 559805) from Popa Mountain, Mandalay Region in the phylogeny of Wood et al. (2012) and Agarwal et al. (2014) forms a monophyletic group with C. annandalei and C. pyinyaungensis sp. nov. ( Fig. 10). However, USNM 559805 was misidentified (G. R. Zug, unpubl. data). Cyrtodactylus feae is known only from the type locality of Bia-po Keba, Karen-ni District, Kayah State (19°15N, 97°30E; Hallermann, 2006: 139) at 900–1000 m in elevation that is approximately 280 km to the south-east of Popa Mountain across the Ayerawaddy River Basin in a different mountain range. USNM 559805 was re-identified as C. peguensis (G. R. Zug, unpubl. data) although this identification too is questionable (see C. peguensis below).

The coloration and pattern of C. shwetaungorum sp. nov. is quite similar to the illustration of the holotype and only known specimen of C. feae ( Boulenger 1893: Plate 7). However, C. feae has 32 continuous, femoroprecloacal pores, whereas C. shwetaungorum sp. nov. has 23–28 and the SVL of C. feae is 47 mm (although it may be a juvenile) and that of C. shwetaungorum sp. nov. ranges up to 102.2 mm. The type locality of C. feae is 214 km south-west of that of C. shwetaungorum sp. nov. although their habitats may be continuous through a U-shape range of mountainous terrain. We hypothesize that the holotype of C. feae is a juvenile and that molecular data will place it within the linnwayensis group.