Morphometric Analysis of Sumatran, Kalimantan, and Javan  Cyrtodactylus , which were Labelled as  Cyrtodactylus marmoratus , Revealed Undescribed Species

Muhammad Alif Fauzi; Awal Riyanto; Nia Kurniawan

doi:10.22146/jtbb.66688

Morphometric Analysis of Sumatran, Kalimantan, and Javan Cyrtodactylus, which were Labelled as Cyrtodactylus marmoratus, Revealed Undescribed Species

https://doi.org/10.22146/jtbb.66688

Muhammad Alif Fauzi^(1*), Awal Riyanto⁽²⁾, Nia Kurniawan⁽³⁾

(1) Department of Biology, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, Brawijaya University, Malang 65145, East Java, Indonesia
(2) Museum Zoologicum Bogoriense, Biosystematics and Evolution Research Center, National Research, and Innovation Agency–BRIN; Jl. Raya Jakarta Bogor km 46, Cibinong, West Java, 16911, Indonesia
(3) Department of Biology, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, Brawijaya University, Malang 65145, East Java, Indonesia
(*) Corresponding Author

Abstract

Cyrtodactylus marmoratus is originally described based on the specimen from Java. Due to the marbled body colour pattern and the similarity in morphology, many specimens from outside of Java have been identified as C. marmoratus. The ongoing research, both molecular and morphological studies, showed that C. marmoratus is restricted to Java. The taxonomic status of specimens labelled as C. marmoratus from outside Java remains unresolved. Here, we study the morphometric and meristic of Javan, Sumatran, and Kalimantan Cyrtodactylus which were labelled as C. marmoratus to reveal their taxonomic status. We examined 11 morphometric and 19 meristic characters in 51 specimens at Museum Zoologicum Bogoriense (MZB) originally from, Java, Sumatra, and Kalimantan labelled as C. marmoratus as well as other recognized species. Principal Component Analysis (PCA) results show that C. marmoratus from Java differs from previous specimens which labelled as C. marmoratus from Sumatra and Kalimantan. The PCA results also show that C. marmoratus from Martabe differs from C. marmoratus Java which is supported by statistical analysis on interorbital, HeadW, HeadD, tubercle on the ventrolateral fold, dorsal tubercle and ventral scales. We hypothesized that Cyrtodactylus from Martabe is a suspected undescribed species-await formal description, and overall molecular analyses are needed for future study.

Keywords

Cyrtodactylus marmoratus; complex species; undescribed species.

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.22146/jtbb.66688