Cnemaspis tubaensis sp. nov. Suggested common name: Tuba Island Rock Gecko Fig. 4 & 5 urn:lsid:zoobank.org:act: E81A532A-ABD3-4D9E-BDC3-6EC4F9C8BB3A Holotype (Fig. 4A & B). Adult male, USMHC 2541 collected at night at approximately 2130 hrs on 18 December 2018 by Evan S.H. Quah, Shahrul Anuar M.S. and Muin, M.A. from along the trail to Gua Wang Buluh cave, Tuba Island, Langkawi Archipelago, Kedah, Peninsular Malaysia (approximately 6°14’45.19”N 99°50’54.69”E; 58 m elevation). Paratypes (Fig. 4C & 5). Females USMHC 2538–39 and 2542 bear the same collection data as the holotype. Male USMHC 2527 and females USMHC 2528–29 bear the same locality data as the holotype but were collected on 17 December 2018 at approximately 1000–1130 hrs in the daytime. Diagnosis. Cnemaspis tubaensis sp. nov. differs from all other species of the C. kumpoli group in having a unique combination of a maximum SVL of 37.0 mm; 10 or 11 supralabials; 8 or 9 infralabials; 15–18 semi-linearly arranged paravertebral tubercles; lateral caudal furrow present; lateral caudal tubercles on the anterior portion of the tail; caudal tubercles not encircling tail; five or six precloacal pores; 28 or 29 subdigital lamellae on the fourth toe; smooth ventrals; smooth subcaudals with an enlarged median row of scales; subcaudal region light grey and speckled with yellow; absence of light-colored ocelli on the shoulder region; no yellow postscapular band; dorsum light brown with sage-green blotches and black spots; flanks with scattered yellow spots; and the absence of black gular markings in both sexes. Description of holotype. Adult male; SVL 35.0 mm; head oblong in dorsal profile, moderate in size (HL/ SVL 0.28), somewhat narrow (HW/SVL 0.17), slightly flattened (HD/HL 0.37), distinct from neck; snout moderate (ES/HL 0.47), slightly concave in lateral view; postnasal region constricted medially; scales of rostrum, weekly keeled, raised, larger than similarly shaped scales on occiput; faint supraorbital ridges; very shallow frontorostral sulcus; canthus rostralis nearly absent, smoothly rounded; eye large (ED/HL 0.19); extra-brillar fringe scales largest anteriorly; pupil round; ear opening oval, taller than wide; rostral slightly concave, dorsal 80% divided by longitudinal median groove; rostral bordered posteriorly by supranasal and laterally by first supralabial; 10R, 10L slightly raised supralabials decreasing in size posteriorly; 9R, 9L infralabials decreasing abruptly in size posteriorly; nostril elliptical, oriented posterodorsally, bordered posteriorly by small, granular postnasal scales; mental large, triangular, bordered posteriorly by three postmentals, two large ones on each side separated medially by a smaller, azygous scale; gular and throat scales raised, smooth and round. Body slender, elongate (AG/SVL 0.41); dorsal scales small, raised and equal in size throughout body, intermixed with several larger, weakly keeled tubercles more or less semi-linearly arranged; 17 paravertebral tubercles; tubercles absent on lower flanks; tubercles extend from occiput to base of tail; pectoral and abdominal scales smooth and round, flat to concave, slightly larger than dorsal scales and same size throughout; ventral scales of brachia raised, smooth and juxtaposed; six contiguous, pore-bearing precloacal scales arranged in a chevron; precloacal pores round; precloacal depression absent; femoral pores absent. Forelimbs moderately long, slender, dorsal scales raised, weakly keeled; ventral scales of forearm smooth, juxtaposed; palmar scales smooth, juxtaposed, raised; digits long with an inflected joint; claws recurved; subdigital lamellae unnotched; lamellae beneath first phalanges wide; lamellae beneath phalanx immediately following inflection granular, lamellae of distal phalanges wide; lamella beneath inflection large; slight interdigital webbing present between bases of fingers II–V; fingers increase in length from first to fifth, with fourth and fifth nearly equal in length; relative length of fingers I

Published as part of Quah, Evan S. H., Wood, Perry L., Anuar, M. S. Shahrul, Muin, Mohd Abdul & Grismer, L. Lee, 2020, A new species of Cnemaspis Strauch 1887 (Squamata: Gekkonidae) from the Langkawi Archipelago, Kedah, Peninsular Malaysia with an updated checklist of the herpetofauna of Tuba Island, pp. 138-160 in Zootaxa 4767 (1) on pages 148-152, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4767.1.6, http://zenodo.org/record/3770211