English: Title: Current herpetology Identifier: currenthe222420032004niho (find matches) Year: 2000 (2000s) Authors: Nihon Hachu Ryoseirui Gakkai Subjects: Reptiles; Herpetology Publisher: Kyoto : The Herpetological Society of Japan Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library View Book Page: Book Viewer About This Book: Catalog Entry View All Images: All Images From Book Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book. Text Appearing Before Image: DAS & LEONG—NEW LIZARD FROM SOUTHERN THAILAND 65 Text Appearing After Image: Fig. L The holotype of Cnemaspis phuketensis sp. nov. (ZRC 2.5212) in life. Description of holotype A small species of Cnemaspis (snout-vent length 29.0 mm); snout elongate, large (HL/ SVL ratio 0.18), narrow (HW/SVL ratio 0.16), depressed (HD/HL ratio 0.66), distinct from neck; lores sloping and interorbital region flattened; snout long (E-S/HW ratio 0.87), longer than eye diameter (ED/E-S ratio 0.43); scales on snout and forehead warty, under magnification revealed as tubercles that are raised towards posterior of each scale; scales on snout larger than those on occipital region; eye large (ED/HL ratio 0.32); 'extra-brillar fringes' (of Underwood, 1954) indistinct; pupil round; elongated supraciliaries on top half of orbit; ear-opening deep, slit-like, its greatest diameter vertically, fairly narrow (EL/E-S ratio 0.13); eye to ear distance greater than diameter of eyes (E-E/ED ratio 1.59); no ridge of tubercles along mandible or from posterior of orbit to postero-venter of tympanum, or from antero-dorsum of tympanum to nape; rostral completely divided by a simple rostral groove which meets anterior of snout; rostral less than half as deep as wide (rostral width= 1.3 mm/rostral depth=0.5 mm; width/depth ratio 2.6); contacted posteriorly by two nostrils and two semi-circular supranasals that are separated by a single scale; ventro-posteriorly, rostral is in contact with supralabial I; nostrils oval, situated within nasals, and oriented later- ally; nasals reduced, in broad contact with supralabial I; anterior nasal larger than poste- rior nasal; three postnasals bound nasal; four scale rows separate orbit from supralabials; mentals subtriangular, deeper than wide, paired postmentals that are semicircular, smaller than mental and separated by a single scale; poste- riorly, each postmental is bounded by three smooth, rounded and juxtaposed scales; tongue narrowly elongate, with a weak median cleft. Body slender, elongate (A-G/SVL ratio 0.51); scale size does not decrease dorsally after thorax; ventrally, scales do not decrease in size from chin region to gular, pectoral and abdominal regions; scales on dorsum at mid- body unicarinate, smaller than those of ven- trum at same level; scales along vertebral region not differentiable from adjacent scales; scattered spinose tubercles on paravertebral Note About Images Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original work.