A new species of karst-dwelling bent-toed gecko (Squamata: Gekkonidae) from Khammouane Province, central Laos Author Luu, Vinh Quang Author Nguyen, Truong Quang Author Le, Minh Duc Author Bonkowski, Michael Author Ziegler, Thomas text Zootaxa 2016 4079 1 87 102 journal article 31528 10.11646/zootaxa.4079.1.6 5c6be4fd-4abc-4289-a32d-81abc21a11a5 1175-5326 1050493 0A8593C8-4A63-4AA0-95BD-5D08149F43F0

TABLE 5. Comparison of Cyrtodactylus bansocensis sp. nov. with other morphologically similar species of Cyrtodactylus (data obtained from Nazarov et al. 2014; Luu et al. 2015; Luu et al. 2016 and own data).

Character	Cyrtodactylus bansocensis sp. nov.	C. rufford	C. khammouanensis	C. soudthichaki
Number of specimens	2	3	4	3
Maximal snout–vent length (mm)	74.0	72.5	73.0	70.0
Ventral scales	34–35	27–29	32–38	32–33
Dorsal tubercle rows	14–15	14–16	16–21	19–20
Supralabials	8–10	10–12	11–12	10–11
Infralabials	8	9–11	9–10	8–9
Femoral and precloacal pores (in males)	34	42–43	40–44	29
Postcloacal tubercles	5–7	4–5	5–6	4–5
Transverse dorsal color pattern between limbs	light bands narrower than dark bands with dark spots in the mid- dorsal region	light thin sometimes irregular shaped bands as narrow as haft dark bands	light regular bands nearly as wide as dark bands	light bands wider than dark bands with dark blotches in the dorsolateral region
Tail color pattern	light rings	light rings	light bands	light bands