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Cyrtodactylus tautbatorum

species of reptile

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 25, 2026
Entity authorityQ3009386 ↗
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Cyrtodactylus tautbatorum is a species of gecko, a lizard in the family Gekkonidae. The species is endemic to Palawan in the Philippines.

Etymology

The specific name, tautbatorum, is in honor of the Tau't-Bato peoples.

Description

C. tautbatorum is a small species for its genus. It has a dorsal pattern of transverse body bands which have a "bow-tie" shape. Similar species have transverse body bands which have a "dumbbell" shape.

References

Further reading

Welton LJ, Siler CD, Diesmos AC, Brown RM (2009). "A new bent-toed gecko (genus Cyrtodactylus) from southern Palawan Island, Philippines and clarification of the taxonomic status of C. annulatus ". Herpetologica 65 (3): 328–343. (Cyrtodactylus tautbatorum, new species).

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This entry incorporates text from “Cyrtodactylus tautbatorum” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.