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Tytthoscincus keciktuek Grismer, Wood, Ahmad, Baizul-Hafasyam, Afiq-Shuhaim, Rizal & Quah 2018

Description

Tytthoscincus keciktuek Grismer, Wood, Ahmad, Baizul-Hafasyam, Afiq-Shuhaim, Rizal & Quah, 2018

Holotype and type locality: Adult female (LSUHC 13859) from “along a small tributary of the Sungai Peres, Sekayu, Hulu Terengganu, Terengganu State, Peninsular Malaysia (4.9596° N, 102.9596° E; 74 m in elevation).”

Distribution: Known only from the type locality however, it is likely to range throughout the entire riparian system of the Sekayu region (Grismer et al. 2018a).

Notes

Published as part of Grismer, L. Lee & Quah, Evan S. H., 2019, An updated and annotated checklist of the lizards of Peninsular Malaysia, Singapore, and their adjacent archipelagos, pp. 230-248 in Zootaxa 4545 (2) on page 242, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4545.2.4, http://zenodo.org/record/2618805

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Collection code
LSUHC
Family
Scincidae
Genus
Tytthoscincus
Kingdom
Animalia
Material sample ID
LSUHC 13859
Order
Squamata
Phylum
Chordata
Scientific name authorship
Grismer, Wood, Ahmad, Baizul-Hafasyam, Afiq-Shuhaim, Rizal & Quah
Species
keciktuek
Taxon rank
species
Type status
holotype
Taxonomic concept label
Tytthoscincus keciktuek Grismer, 2018 sec. Grismer & Quah, 2019

References

  • Grismer, L. L., Wood Junior, P. L., Ahmad, A. R., Baizul-Hafsyam, B. S., Afiq-Shuhaimi, M., Rizal, S. A. & Quah, E. S. H. (2018 a) Two new Tytthoscincus Linkem, Diesmos, & Brown (Squamata; Scincidae) from Peninsular Malaysia and another case of microsyntopy between ecologically specialized, unrelated, leaf-litter species. Zootaxa, 4425 (1), 87 - 107. https: // doi. org / 10.11646 / zootaxa. 4425.1.5