Pauwels, OSG.,  Das, S.,  Kunya, K.,  Sumontha, M.,  Donbundit, N.,  Pauwels, TPC.,  Sonet, G.,  Brecko, J. & Meesook, W. 2025. ‘A new sandstone-dwelling leaf-toed gecko (Gekkonidae: Dixonius hinchangsi) from Khon Kaen Province, northeastern Thailand’. Zootaxa 5584(4): 482-504. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5584.4.2. URL: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/388868769_A_new_sandstone-dwelling_leaf-toed_gecko_Gekkonidae_Dixonius_hinchangsi_from_Khon_Kaen_Province_northeastern_Thailand  I.F. 1.09.

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We describe Dixonius hinchangsi sp. nov. from a sandstone area near Hin Chang Si, Khon Kaen Province, northeastern Thailand. The new species differs from all currently recognized Dixonius by the following combination of morphological characters and pattern: maximal known snout-vent length of 50.1 mm, 12 longitudinal rows of dorsal tubercles; 30 to 34 paravertebral tubercles; 23 to 27 longitudinal rows of ventral scales across the abdomen; six to eight precloacal pores in males, no pores in females; no canthal stripe; strongly barred lips; and a spotted to uniform dorsal pattern in males and females. We provide a cranial osteological description and a phylogenetic analysis of the new species. This discovery brings the number of recognized Dixonius species to 19, among them nine species endemic to Thailand.