Venezuelan geckos (Gekkonidae, Phyllodactylidae, Sphaerodactylidae) in the collection of the Universidad de Concepción in Chile, with description of the type series of Gonatodes ligiae and Gonatodes petersi (Sphaerodactylidae)
Author
Barrio-Amorós, Cesar L.
Author
Ortíz, Juan C.
text
Zootaxa
2016
4136
3
537
552
journal article
10.11646/zootaxa.4136.3.6
cafaba1e-ca02-4145-99ac-7fc197006b21
1175-5326
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Gonatodes vittatus
(
Lichtenstein
, 1856)
.
(
Fig. 2
F)
Specimens
.
14 June 1963
, Cumanacoa, estado Sucre: (adult males): MZUC 11284, 21167-68, 21172-73, 21175-81. (adult females): MZUC 21170-71, 21174, 21182.
21
September 1963, Mariguitar estado Sucre (adult males): MZUC 21184-85.
26
August 1963, Los Ipures, Cumanacoa MZUC 11270 (adult male), MZUC 21166 (adult female). MZUC 11269 (adult female),
1 June 1963
, Cumanacoa, estado Sucre. MZUC 21163-64 (adult males) and MZUC 8574 (adult female),
22 September 1963
, Camino a Cumanacoa, estado Sucre. MZUC 8554 (adult female),
22 September 1963
, km 22 a Cumanacoa. MZUC 8572 (adult female) and MZUC 21160-62 (juveniles),
9 November 1963
, Peninsula de Paria, estado Sucre.
Remarks
. MZUC 12306 (RDB 2780), identified as
Sphaerodactylus molei
by RDB, is herein considered a juvenile
Gonatodes
sp
. (probably
vittatus
based on the locality: Playa Cumanacoa, estado Sucre,
Venezuela
). This juvenile specimen is quite dehydrated and discolored. It is characterized as
Gonatodes
instead of
Sphaerodactylus
due to the presence of claws on fingers and toes (distal phalanx asymmetric in
Sphaerodactylus
; Peters & Donoso- Barros 1970). Rivas-Fuenmayor
et al.
(2006) present data on natural history of this species.