v13i2.338

Submitted date: 29 September 2024
Accepted date: 31 October 2024
Published date: 10 December 2024
Pp. 132–133.

On the systematics and distribution of Cyrtodactylus semiadii, Java – Indonesia

A. Riyanto*, H. Wiradarma, A. Hamidy & A. Abinawanto
*Corresponding author. E-mail: awal003@brin.go.id

There are approximately 372 species of bent-toed geckos of the genus Cyrtodactylus Gray, 1827 distributed throughout most of tropical Asia from India to the Philippines and south through the Indo-Australian Archipelago, northern Australia, New Guinea, and the Solomon Islands. Cyrtodactylus semiadii Riyanto, Bauer, Yudha, 2024 is a Javan endemic gecko listed as not threatened (of least concern, LC). It was described based on specimens from two localities: (i) Paliyan, Jogjakarta (Central Java), and Tuban (East Java) separated by ~200 km. Since its description, there has been only one study on this species by Damayanti (2017) on its habitat preferences in Paliyan, Jogjakarta. That study showed that this gecko is mostly encountered in litter on the forest floor. All other 21 records were obtained from photographs in the iNaturalist citizen science platform from Central Java between 2016–2023. The molecular data on this species were first included in a phylogenetic tree by Riyanto et al. (2020) sampled from a single locality.

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