Table 10. Key trait differences between Hemiphyllodactylus simaoensis sp. nov. and its congeners.

	H. jinpingensis	H. montawaensis	H. tonywhitteni	H. ngwelwini	H. simaoensis sp. nov.
Values for H. jinpingensis were obtained from Guo et al. (2015), H. montawaensis and H. tonywhitteni were from Grismer et al. (2017), and H. ngwelwini was from Grismer et al. (2020a). See text for abbreviations.
HL/SVL	0.23–0.24	0.23–0.26	0.24–0.27	0.19–0.26	0.16–0.20
HW/HL	0.73–0.76	0.68–0.73	0.62–0.74	0.81–0.94	0.98–1.18
SnEye/HL	0.41–0.43	0.41–0.44	0.41–0.50	0.41–0.54	0.52–0.63
NarEye/HL	0.29–0.32	0.29–0.34	0.29–0.34	0.28–0.41	0.38–0.46
ED/HL	0.22–0.26	0.22–0.24	0.21–0.23	0.23–0.31	0.30–0.35
SnW/HL	0.13–0.15	0.13–0.15	0.13–0.14	0.14–0.18	0.18–0.24