A new species of insular Rock Gecko (Genus Cnemaspis Strauch, 1887) from the Bidong Archipelago, Terengganu, Peninsular Malaysia

Grismer, L. Lee; Wood, Perry L.; Ahmad, Amirrudin; Sumarli, Alexandra S.-I.; Vazquez, Jessika J.; Ismail, Lukman Hakim; Nance, Ronald; Mohd-Amin, Muhammad Afif B.; Othman, Mohamad N. A. B.; Rizaijessika, Syed A.; Kuss, Maria; Murdoch, Matthew L.; Cobos, Anthony J.

doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3755.5.4

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“…However the endemic gecko, Cnemaspis bidongensis, did not seem affected. Grismer et al (2014) inferred that C. bidongensis, unlike most of its congeners, is not a microhabitat specialist. This could have helped its survival undeterred by the island's severely degraded ecosystem in the past.…”

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“…However, other terrestrial fauna was not reported until recently. Roslan et al (2016) surveyed the island's bat fauna, Fathihi-Hakimi et al (2017) studied the butterfly diversity, and Grismer et al (2014) described a new species of lizard, Cnemaspis bidongensis. Zakaria et al (2017) followed up with an inventory of the island's herpetofaunal diversity in which 12 species of lizards were recorded.…”

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Checklist of herpetofauna in the severely degraded ecosystem of Bidong Island, Peninsular Malaysia, South China Sea

Syafiq¹,

Badli-Sham²,

Fahmi-Ahmad³

et al. 2020

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A herpetofaunal inventory was conducted on Bidong Island, Terengganu, Peninsular Malaysia. It incorporates data from a recent herpetological survey conducted from 1 to 3 April 2019 with reptile records from previous publications. Specimens were collected with drift-fenced pitfall traps and taxa were recorded with visual encounter surveys (VES). In total, 18 species of reptiles and amphibians were recorded, including three species of frogs, 12 species of lizards, and three species of snakes. Six species from the present survey are new records for the island.

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Checklist of herpetofauna in the severely degraded ecosystem of Bidong Island, Peninsular Malaysia, South China Sea

Syafiq¹,

Badli-Sham²,

Fahmi-Ahmad³

et al. 2020

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“…In some cases this may result in species descriptions with many authors. For instance, several gecko species have been described with more than a dozen authors, such as Cyrtodactylus phuocbinhensis (Nguyen et al 2013), Cyrtodactylus taynguyenensis Nguyen et al 2013, Cyrtodactylus puhuensis (Nguyen et al 2014, and Cnemaspis bidongensis (Grismer et al 2014), each with 14 authors. None of these approach the reptile species with the highest number of authors though, which is the leiosaurid Enyalius capetinga Breitman et al 2018, with 27 authors.…”

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Gecko diversity: a history of global discovery

Uetz

Slavenko

Meiri

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Israel J. Ecol. Evol.

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1935 gecko species (and 224 subspecies) were known in December 2019 in seven families and 124 genera. These nearly 2000 species were described by ~950 individuals of whom more than 100 described more than 10 gecko species each. Most gecko species were discovered during the past 40 years. The primary type specimens of all currently recognized geckos (including subspecies) are distributed over 161 collections worldwide, with 20 collections having about two thirds of all primary types. The primary type specimens of about 40 gecko taxa have been lost or unknown. The phylogeny of geckos is well studied, with DNA sequences being available for ~76% of all geckos (compared to ~63% in other reptiles) and morphological characters now being collected in databases. Geographically, geckos occur on five continents and many islands but are most species-rich in Australasia (which also houses the greatest diversity of family-level taxa), Southeast Asia, Africa, Madagascar, and the West Indies. Among countries, Australia has the highest number of geckos (241 species), with India, Madagascar, and Malaysia being the only other countries with more than 100 described species each. As expected, when correcting for land area, countries outside the tropics have fewer geckos.

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“…In comparison to the lizards, freshwater turtles and, tortoises groups, ecological and taxonomical study solely focusing on snakes in Terengganu is non-existed (Grismer and Chan 2008;Grismer et al 2009;2014a;Chan and Norhayati 2010;Chan and Chen 2011;Shahirah-Ibrahim et al 2018).…”

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Uneven Species Occurrence and Richness of Lowland Snakes (Serpentes, Squamata) in Terengganu, Peninsular Malaysia with New Locality Records.

Syafiq¹,

Badli-Sham²,

Grismer³

et al. 2022

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This study documented information on the composition, diversity, richness, and temporal occurrence of snakes at Sekayu’s lowland forest (SLF), Terengganu, Peninsular Malaysia for the first time. The snakes recorded within the SLF were sampled haphazardly from 2013 to 2019, employing the Visual Encounter Survey (VES) and L-shape pitfall traps with drift fences. Forty-six snake species from 37 genera belonging to the nine families were recorded, of which eleven were new records to Terengganu. Individual-based rarefaction and extrapolation curves were not reaching asymptote, indicating that additional species can be recorded at the study area. Non-parametric species richness estimators estimated and produced a range between 51 and 57 species. ACE was the best estimator based on the quantitative evaluation. All species showed some variations of the occurrence patterns across months. Fourteen species occurred only once across the sampling years, and interestingly 11 of them were detected during the rainy season. In general, the number of species richness, abundance, and rare species were high during this season. Species richness of snakes is high at SLF but sampling effort should be intensified, especially during these rainy months, to obtain a robust estimated snake species richness in SLF. Terengganu harbor considerably high species richness of snakes with a total of 71 species to date (excluding marine snakes), but snake diversity is still underestimated as only a few localities were surveyed in the past years, primarily at the northern part. Future surveys should be commenced at the central and southern parts of Terengganu to complement the current investigation.

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A new species of insular Rock Gecko (Genus Cnemaspis Strauch, 1887) from the Bidong Archipelago, Terengganu, Peninsular Malaysia

Cited by 14 publications

References 22 publications

Checklist of herpetofauna in the severely degraded ecosystem of Bidong Island, Peninsular Malaysia, South China Sea

Checklist of herpetofauna in the severely degraded ecosystem of Bidong Island, Peninsular Malaysia, South China Sea

Gecko diversity: a history of global discovery

Uneven Species Occurrence and Richness of Lowland Snakes (Serpentes, Squamata) in Terengganu, Peninsular Malaysia with New Locality Records.

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