Kabaena Bow-fingered Gecko

The Kabaena bow-fingered gecko is Cyrtodactylus wallacei, the largest bent-toed gecko documented from Sulawesi, reaching 11.4 cm from snout to vent. It has a robust body, long digits and 17–29 crosswise rows of slightly keeled, three-sided tubercles. Five irregular dark-purple blotches between the nape and tail base are each narrowly bordered with yellow (Reptile Database diagnosis; Hayden and colleagues 2008).

The species is known from Sulawesi; its type locality is Kelapa Dua village in South Sulawesi rather than Kabaena in the database record. It lays eggs. The tail becomes uniformly dark purple when regrown and lacks the original tail's tubercles. The opened account does not provide habitat, activity, prey, clutch size or incubation. The mismatch between the checklist's English name and the documented type locality deserves review (Reptile Database).