Cnemaspis dringi Das & Bauer 1998
Creators: name: Grismer, Lee
name: Wood, Perry L.
name: Anuar, Shahrul
name: Riyanto, Awal
name: Ahmad, Norhayati
name: Muin, Mohd A.
name: Sumontha, Montri
name: Grismer, Jesse L.
name: Onn, Chan Kin
name: Quah, Evan S. H.
name: Pauwels, Olivier S. A.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Reptilia
Squamata
Gekkonidae
Cnemaspis
Cnemaspis dringi

description: Cnemaspis dringi Das & Bauer, 1998   
Dring’s Rock Gecko  
Fig. 68  
 Holotype. FMNH 148588. Type locality “ Labang Camp (03° 20'N; 113°29'E), Bintulu District, Fourth Division, Sarawak, East Malaysia, Borneo ” at approximately 30 m in elevation.   
 Diagnosis. Maximum SVL 46.4 mm; 11 supralabials; nine infralabials; keeled ventral scales; five or six discontinuous, pore-bearing, precloacal scales with round pores; 25–27 paravertebral tubercles; body tubercles randomly arranged, absent from flanks; tubercles absent from lateral caudal furrows; no ventrolateral row of caudal tubercles; lateral row of caudal tubercles present; caudal tubercles do not encircle tail; subcaudals keeled; enlarged median row of subcaudals present; two postcloacal tubercles on each side of tail base; no enlarged femoral, subtibial or submetatarsal scales; subtibials keeled; 32–35 subdigital fourth toe lamellae; distinct, whitish spots on a dark flank (Tables 6,7).   
 Color pattern (Fig. 68). Dorsal ground color pale brown overlain with a vertebral series of irregularly shaped, light-colored markings flanked by a linear, dark, paravertebral series of markings extending from nape to beyond base of tail; two dark-brown, postorbital stripes extending to ear opening; upper surface of limbs bearing dark bands; ventral surfaces pale-brown with scattered clusters of off-white scales, manifesting a very weakly mottled appearance; flanks dark-brown bearing distinct, whitish spots of varying size.   
 Distribution. Cnemaspis dringi is known only from Labang Camp, Bintulu District, Fourth Division and Sungai Segaham, Belaga District, Seventh Division, Sarawak, East Malaysia (Das & Bauer 1998; Fig. 4).   
 Natural history. According to Das and Bauer (1998), the only known aspect of this species’ natural history is that the paratype from Sungai Segaham was taken from a log.   
 Relationships. The distribution of Cnemaspis dringi in East Malaysia would suggest it belongs within the Southern Sunda clade (Fig. 4). Having precloacal pores like all species of the nigridia group of East Malaysia differentiates C. dringi from all species in the kendallii group as well as C. limi. Like all species of the nigridia group, C. dringi lacks tubercles encircling the tail, which further separates it from the kendallii group. These data (Tables 6,7) would suggest that C. dringi is most closely related to the East Malaysian nigridia group.   
 Material examined. Malaysia: Sarawak, Fourth Division, Bintulu District, Labang Camp FMNH 148588; seventh Division, Belaga District FMNH 221478. These specimens represent the type series.
description: Published as part of Grismer, Lee, Wood, Perry L., Anuar, Shahrul, Riyanto, Awal, Ahmad, Norhayati, Muin, Mohd A., Sumontha, Montri, Grismer, Jesse L., Onn, Chan Kin, Quah, Evan S. H. & Pauwels, Olivier S. A., 2014, Systematics and natural history of Southeast Asian Rock Geckos (genus Cnemaspis Strauch, 1887) with descriptions of eight new species from Malaysia, Thailand, and Indonesia, pp. 1-147 in Zootaxa 3880 (1) on pages 131-132, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3880.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4949564