On the sand and among the crowds: a new species of Woodworthia gecko (Reptilia Diplodactylidae) from Auckland, Aotearoa / New Zealand Author Winkel, Dylan Van 0000-0002-9431-3424 Bioresearches (Babbage Consultants Ltd.), Level 4, 68 Beach Road, Auckland 1010, New Zealand. svanwinkel@unitec.ac.nz Author Wells, Sarah J. 0009-0006-7564-8102 School of Environmental and Animal Sciences, Te Pukenga - New Zealand Institute of Skills and Technology, Private Bag 92025, Auckland 1142, New Zealand. nharker@xtra.co.nz Author Harker, Nicholas 0000-0002-5433-1089 Independent herpetologist, Onehunga, Auckland. rod.hitchmough@xtra.co.nz Author Hitchmough, Rodney A. 0000-0002-3014-6081 151 Woodburn Drive, Takapu Valley, Wellington 5028. dylan.vanwinkel@hotmail.co.nz text Zootaxa 2023 2023-11-16 5374 2 263 294 https://mapress.com/zt/article/download/zootaxa.5374.2.7/52290 journal article 278749 10.11646/zootaxa.5374.2.7 291f6104-0ef0-41a6-977c-858c8e126552 1175-5326 10147319 973FE7A1-91F3-40DC-8CC7-A3DAA36C046C

TABLE 6. Meristic, mensural (mm), proportional value, and character data from the type series of W. korowai sp. nov. (n = 4). Data (mean ± standard deviation, range in parentheses below) for all examined W. korowai sp. nov. specimens (type series and two additional in-life examined specimens) and geographically close and genetically closely related congeners (W. maculata, n = 26 and W. “Mt Arthur”, n = 4). Abbreviations are listed in the Materials and methods. Key: ND = no data, na = not applicable. Individuals with regenerated tails were excluded from pooled (mean) data for TL, TW, and TH characters. Bold text indicates characters with statistical significance among the three taxa.

		Woodworthia korowai sp. nov.				W. maculata (n = 26)	W. “Mt Arthur” (n = 4)
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	Holotype		Paratypes		All examined W. korowai sp. nov. ( n = 6, including in- life specimens)
	AWMM LH2445	AWMM LH4069	AWMM LH4067	AWMM LH4068
Sex	f	m	f	m
Mensural
SVL	57.4	55.8	47.0	68.0	58.7 (± 6.52) (47.0–68.0)	62.1 (± 6.67) (48.8–74.0)	52.0 (± 4.38) (46.6–57.5)
TL	66.4	54.8	49.0	61.0	57.7 (± 8.7) (49.0–66.4)	71.1 (± 6.36) (60.5–81.0)	ND
TW	6.5	8.0	4.4	4.4	5.45 (± 1.05) (4.4–8.0)	7.1 (± 0.98) (5.3–8.3)	7.2 (± 0.00) (7.2)
TH	5.9	6.4	4.2	4.6	5.05 (± 0.85) (4.6–6.0)	6.2 (± 0.88) (4.7–7.3)	6.4 (± 0.00) (6.4)
Regen. tail	No	Yes	No	Yes	-	-	-
BH	11.2	6.5	ND	5.4	7.8 (± 1.97) (5.4–11.2)	9.4 (± 1.77) (6.6–12.6)	9.7 (± 1.37) (8.3–11.8)
BW	14.8	13.4	10.1	10.5	12.1 (± 1.63) (10.1–14.8)	13.2 (± 2.10) (10.0–18.2)	13.2(± 0.96) (12.1–14.7)
HL	16.2	17.9	15.8	18.9	17.2 (± 1.04) (15.8–18.9)	17.2 (± 1.68) (14.2–20.4)	15.3 (± 0.69) (14.5–16.3)
HW	11.4	11.1	9.4	12.3	11.4 (± 1.08) (9.4–12.8)	12.4 (± 1.25) (10.0–14.8)	10.8 (± 0.58) (9.9–11.4)
HD	8.1	8.7	5.9	5.5	7.2 (± 1.16) (5.5–8.7)	8.2 (± 0.81) (6.5–9.4)	7.9(± 0.62) (7.3–8.7)
EN	4.7	4.3	4.0	4.4	4.5 (± 0.3) (4.0–4.9)	4.6 (± 0.47) (3.6–5.4)	4.1 (± 0.28) (3.7–4.4)
SNT	6.3	6.5	5.7	6.3	6.2 (± 0.26) (5.7–6.5)	6.5 (± 0.70) (5.2–7.7)	5.7 (± 0.29) (5.3–6.1)
EE	5.6	6.0	4.6	5.4	5.5 (± 0.47) (4.6–6.0)	5.6 (± 0.53) (4.3–6.5)	5.2 (± 0.43) (4.6–5.7)
ED	3.2	3.3	2.5	3.8	3.2 (± 0.38) (2.5–3.8)	3.6 (± 0.51) (2.5–4.5)	2.9(± 0.24) (2.6–3.2)
EW	1.4	1.17L	1.5	0.9	1.2 (± 0.28) (0.7–1.5)	0.9 (± 0.29) (0.4–1.5)	0.9 (± 0.12) (0.7–1.1)
EL	2.0	1.34L	1.1	2.5	2.0 (± 0.57) (1.1–2.6)	1.9 (± 0.44) (0.9–2.9)	1.6 (± 0.12) (1.5–1.8)
IN	2.8	2.4	2.3	2.5	2.6 (± 0.25) (2.3–3.0)	2.8 (± 0.30) (2.2–3.4)	2.4 (± 0.20) (2.2–2.7)
SF	21.2	23.8	20.6	25.8	22.9 (± 1.82) (20.6–25.8)	24.4 (± 2.82) (18.5–29.4)	21.5 (± 0.51) (21.1–22.4)
	Holotype		Paratypes		All examined W. korowai sp. nov. ( n = 6, including in- life specimens)
	AWMM LH2445	AWMM LH4069	AWMM LH4067	AWMM LH4068
Sex	f	m	f	m
AG	29.5	23.9	21.2	29.2	27.2 (± 3.59) (21.2–31.8)	27.6 (± 4.30) (17.1–35.6)	21.2 (± 3.51) (1.75–25.3)
HUM	7.2	7.5	6.7	8.5	7.8 (± 0.70) (6.7–8.6)	8.8 (± 1.11) (6.5–10.7)	8.0 (± 0.56) (7.2–8.8)
ULN	5.5	7.2	6.2	7.3	6.9 (± 0.81) (5.5–8.0)	7.4 (± 1.05) (5.2–9.6)	6.2(± 0.73) (5.2–7.2)
FEM	10.2	9.0	8.3	10.7	10.0 (± 1.10) (8.3–11.7)	11.0 (± 1.39) (8.5–13.2)	8.8 (± 0.46) (8.0–9.2)
TIB	7.7	8.5	6.5	8.5	8.1 (± 0.85) (6.5–9.2)	8.6 (± 1.21) (6.5–10.8)	7.8 (± 0.57) (6.9–8.4)
4TL	5.8	6.2	5.0	6.9	6.0 (± 0.57) (5.0–6.9)	6.7 (± 1.01) (4.5–8.5)	5.4 (± 0.26) (5.1–5.8)
4TLAML	4.9	4.7	3.5	5.1	4.7 (± 0.57) (3.5–5.2)	4.7 (± 0.84) (3.2–6.7)	4.0 (± 0.16) (3.8–4.2)
4TLAMW	1.8	1.9	1.3	1.53	1.6 (± 0.19) (1.3–1.8)	1.8 (± 0.27) (1.3–2.3)	1.6 (± 0.13) (1.4–1.7)
4TDPL	1.2	1.4	1.3	1.36	1.4 (± 0.23) (1.2–1.9)	2.0 (± 0.36) (1.3–3.0)	1.8 (± 0.21) (1.6–2.1)
SF/AG	0.72	1.00	0.97	0.88	0.86 (± 0.10) (0.72–1.00)	0.90 (± 0.12) (0.7–1.2)	1.04 (± 0.16) (0.84–1.22)
AG/SVL	0.51	0.43	0.45	0.43	0.46 (± 0.04) (0.43–0.51)	0.44 (± 0.04) (0.40–0.50)	0.41 (± 0.04) (0.36–0.44)
HW/SVL	0.20	0.20	0.20	0.18	0.19 (± 0.01) (0.18–0.21)	0.20 (± 0.01) (0.20)	0.21 (± 0.02) (0.19–0.24)
HW/HL	0.70	0.62	0.59	0.65	0.66 (± 0.05) (0.59–0.73)	0.72 (± 0.06) (0.6–0.8)	0.71 (± 0.03) (0.68-0.75)
HD/HL	0.50	0.49	0.37	0.29	0.42 (± 0.07) (0.29-0.50)	0.48 (± 0.04) (0.4-0.5)	0.51 (± 0.02) (0.49–0.53)
SNT/HL	0.39	0.36	0.36	0.33	0.36 (± 0.02) (0.33–0.39)	0.38 (± 0.03) (0.3–0.4)	0.37 (± 0.01) (0.37–0.39)
ED/HL	0.20	0.18	0.16	0.20	0.19 (± 0.01) (0.16–0.20)	0.21 (± 0.02) (0.2–0.3)	0.19 (± 0.01) (0.17–0.20)
EL/HL	0.12	0.07	0.07	0.13	0.11 (± 0.03) (0.07–0.15)	0.11 (± 0.02) (0.10)	0.11 (± 0.01) (0.10–0.11)
EN/ED	1.47	1.30	1.60	1.16	1.42 (± 0.15) (1.16–1.60)	1.29 (± 0.13) (1.0–1.5)	1.44 (± 0.05) (1.39–1.49)
EN/EE	0.84	0.72	0.87	0.81	0.82 (± 0.05) (0.72–0.87)	0.82 (± 0.06) (0.7–0.9)	0.80 (± 0.20) (0.69–0.95)
4TL/SVL	0.10	0.11	0.11	0.10	0.10 (± 0.01) (0.10–0.11)	0.12 (± 0.01) (0.10)	0.10 (± 0.01) (0.09–0.12)
4 T D P L / 4FTL	0.21	0.23	0.26	0.20	0.24 (± 0.04) (0.20–0.32)	0.30 (± 0.05) (0.2–0.4)	0.34 (± 0.06) (0.30–0.40)
	Holotype		Paratypes		All examined W. korowai sp. nov. ( n = 6, including inlife specimens)
	AWMM LH2445	AWMM LH4069	AWMM LH4067	AWMM LH4068
Sex	f	m	f	m
4T L A M W / 4TLAML	0.37	0.40	0.37	0.30	0.40 (± 0.04) (0.30–0.40)	0.40 (± 0.07) (0.3–0.5)	0.40 (± 0.04) (0.3–0.4)
Meristic
MSR	125	120	129	120	122.8 (± 5.4) (114–129)	131.7 (± 11.62) (105–156)	120.5 (± 6.54) (111–129)
SL	11	11	9	10	10.1 (± 0.69) (9–11)	12.0 (± 1.19) (10–14)	10.8 (± 0.83) (10–12)
IL	10	11	10	8	9.5 (± 0.96) (8–11)	11.4 (± 1.17) (9–14)	9.8 (± 0.43) (9–10)
NLS	4	4	4	4	4.0 (± 0.00) (4)	4.3 (± 0.60) (4–6)	4 (± 0.00) (4)
CS	11	10	13	12	11.3 (± 0.94) (10–13)	11.8 (± 1.09) (10–14)	11.5 (± 0.50) (11–12)
SMO	28	33	29	29	30.5 (± 2.22) (28–34)	30.8 (± 3.00) (25–37)	32 (± 1.87) (29–34)
INS	1	1	2	1	1.5 (± 0.50) (1–2)	1.3 (± 0.73) (0–3)	1.3 (± 0.43) (1–2)
LAMF4	13	13	10	14	12.6 (± 1.36) (10–14)	12.2 (± 1.23) (10–15)	10.5 (± 0.50) (10–11)
LAMT4	14	14	13	15	13.8 (± 0.69) (13–15)	13.2 (± 1.30) (10–16)	11 (± 1.22) (9–12)
4TDP	4	4	5	3	3.7 (± 0.75) (3–5)	6.3 (± 1.05) (5–8)	5.5 (± 0.50) (5–6)
CPR	na	4	na	4	4.0 (± 0.00) (4)	4 (± 0.74) (3–6)	4 (± 0.00) (4)
POR	na	62	na	81	76.0 (± 10.03) (62–85)	68.1 (± 19.25) (29–98)	46 (± 0.00) (46)
CSP	1	1	0	1	0.7 (± 0.47) (0–1)	1.0 (± 0.56) (0–3)	1.0 (± 0.00) (1)
Apical scansor on pes	moderate to well developed	moderately developed	moderately developed	moderately developed	moderately to well developed	weakly to well developed	weakly developed
Scale rows between tail annuli	6	6	6	no visible annuli	6.0 (± 0.00) (6)	7.1 (± 0.43) (6–8)	6.8 (± 0.83) (6–8)