Table 2.

Diagnostic characters separating Cyrtodactylus tanim n. sp. from similar-sized Cyrtodactylus species in mainland Papua New Guinea.

	tanim n. sp.	arcanus	boreoclivus	capreoloides	medioclivus
n=	12	2 (both F)	5	5	2
SVL (in mm)	89.9–96.7	84–92	104–109	62–84	97.2–103.4
TrL/SVL	0.463–0.516	0.441–0.458	0.368–0.496	0.442–0.484	0.449–0.452
TL/SVL	0.147–1.210	0.714–1.011	1.035–1.257	1.119–1.320	0.812–1.224
OT/SVL	0.146–1.210	0.179–0.772	0.199–1.257	0.209–1.158	0.097–1.019
FA/SVL	0.153–0.175	0.150–0.158	0.144–0.160	0.137–0.147	0.155–0.159
HDL/SVL	0.183–0.201	0.163–0.165	0.179–0.197	0.164–0.185	0.177–0.187
HW/SVL	0.172–0.190	0.179–0.180	0.193–0.213	0.171–0.197	0.197–0.203
HL/SVL	0.244–0.260	0.252–0.260	0.252–0.268	0.249–0.262	0.258–0.260
HD/SVL	0.096–0.105	0.105–0.111	0.108–0.119	0.106–0.118	0.110–0.115
EN/SVL	0.085–0.094	0.093–0.093	0.093–0.103	0.092–0.096	0.094–0.101
OrB/SVL	0.075–0.083	0.074–0.075	0.065–0.075	0.067–0.072	0.065–0.071
IN/SVL	0.031–0.039	0.039–0.041	0.037–0.044	0.038–0.041	0.036–0.040
EAR/SVL	0.010–0.022	0.020–0.021	0.014–0.023	0.009–0.107	0.015–0.023
SUPR (R) (to midpt. of eye/rictus)	9–11/10–14	8/13–14	7–9/9–11	5–9/9–12	8/10–11
SUPR (L) (to midpt. of eye/rictus)	9–11/10–14	8–9/12–14	7–9/9–12	7–10/10–12	8–9/10–11
INFR (R)	11–14	12	8–10	9–12	9–10
INFR (L)	12–14	11–12	8–10	9–13	10
DTR	14–16	22–25	16–19	20–22	20
VENT	46–54	37–40	36–44	31–39	43
INTER	1–4	5	?	1–3	0
POMEN	2	2	?	2–3	2
LAM first toe (expanded/narrow)	7–9/7–10	6–8/7	9–10/7–10	6–8/5–9	8/8–9
LAM fourth toe (expanded/narrow)	11–14/11–15	10/9–10	11–13/10–14	8–11/6–14	9–14/11–13
PREPORES	15–17	—	12	13–14	12–13
FEMPORES (R,L)	31–38,34–39	—	18–25,17–24	22,20	19–24,21
PATUB (R,L)	2–4,1–4	2,2	2,2	2,2	3,3