GYMNODACTYLUS 



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GYMNODACTYLUS PHILIPPINICUS Steindachner 



Cyrtodactylus marmoratus Gray, Cat. Liz. (1845) 173, part. 



Gymnodactylus philippinicus Steindachner, Novara Exp., Rept. 

 Wien (1869) 17, pi. 2, fig. 1; Boulenger, Cat. Liz. Brit. Mus. 1 

 (1885) 46; Boettger, Ber. Senck. Nat. Ges. (1886) 94; de Rooij, 

 Indo-Aust. Arch. 1 (1915) 17; Taylor, Philip. Journ. Sci. § D 12 

 (1917) 367. 



Description of species. — (From a series of specimens from 

 Negros, Mindoro, and Polillo.) Head rather large, not espe- 

 cially depressed, much longer than wide, depth of head in oc- 

 cipital region equal to length of snout; eye large, its distance 



Fig. 3. Gymnodactylus philipioinicus Steindachner, preanal pores ; X 3. 



from nostril equal to or a little greater than its distance from 

 auricular opening; rostral large, subrectangular, somewhat ru- 

 gose, partially divided by a cleft from above, which forks near 

 the middle of the scale; nostril surrounded by rostral (which 

 enters it broadly) , first labial (usually) , two or three postnasals, 

 and enlarged supranasal; latter broadly in contact with rostral 

 but separated from its fellow by two or three scales; ten 

 to twelve upper labials, eleven lower labials; mental large, reg- 

 ularly triangular, followed by a pair of chin shields broadly in 

 contact with first labial and with each other ; a slightly enlarged 



