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species groups
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The genus
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and modified by subsequent authors. The
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-group is actually composed of seven species, six of them occurring eastward of the Albertine Rift Valley in East Africa, whereas
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<emphasis id="00D6305B52764B751AC994C060D6A58E" box="[1161,1263,1759,1785]" italics="true" pageId="9" pageNumber="570">L. lobeke</emphasis>
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occurs westward in the Lower
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region.
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Morphologically,
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differs greatly in
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uncorrected pairwise distance (> 10%) from
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, well above the species threshold proposed by
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<bibRefCitation id="563391B852764B751F689597662DA4A5" author="Gippner, S. & Travers, S. L. & Scherz, M. D. & Colston, T. J. & Lyra, M. L. & Ashwini, V. M. & Multzsch, M. & Nielson, S. V. & Rancilhac, L. & Glaw, F. & Bauer, A. M. & Vences, M." box="[296,532,1975,2002]" pageId="9" pageNumber="570" refId="ref8048" refString="Gippner, S., Travers, S. L., Scherz, M. D., Colston, T. J., Lyra, M. L., Ashwini, V. M., Multzsch, M., Nielson, S. V., Rancilhac, L., Glaw, F., Bauer, A. M. & Vences, M. (2021) A comprehensive phylogeny of dwarf geckos of the genus Lygodactylus, with insights into their systematics and morphological variation. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 165, 107311. https: // doi. org / 10.1016 / j. ympev. 2021.107311" type="journal volume" year="2021">
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Gippner
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<emphasis id="00D6305B52764B751FCB959865FAA4A6" box="[395,451,1975,2001]" italics="true" pageId="9" pageNumber="570">et al.</emphasis>
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(2021)
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and
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<bibRefCitation id="563391B852764B751C0B95976743A4A5" author="Lobon-Rovira, J. & Bauer, A. M. & Vaz Pinto, P. & Trape, J. F. & Conradie, W. & Kusamba, C. & Julio, T. & Cael, G. & Stanley, E. L. & Huges, D. F. & Behangana, M. & Masudi, F. M. & Pauwels, O. S. G. & Greenbaum, E." box="[587,890,1975,2002]" pageId="9" pageNumber="570" pagination="447 - 492" refId="ref8783" refString="Lobon-Rovira, J., Bauer, A. M., Vaz Pinto, P., Trape, J. F., Conradie, W., Kusamba, C., Julio, T., Cael, G., Stanley, E. L., Huges, D. F., Behangana, M., Masudi, F. M., Pauwels, O. S. G. & Greenbaum, E. (2023) Integrative revision of the Lygodactylus gutturalis (Bocage, 1873) complex unveils extensive cryptic diversity and traces its evolutionary history. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, 201 (2), 447 - 492. [published with pagination in 2024] https: // doi. org / 10.1093 / zoolinnean / zlad 123" type="journal article" year="2023">
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Lobón-Rovira
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(2023)
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for this genus.
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Interestingly, the
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<emphasis id="00D6305B52764B751FCC95FC662AA482" box="[396,531,2011,2037]" italics="true" pageId="9" pageNumber="570">L. scheffleri</emphasis>
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-group shares the double row of enlarged subcaudals with
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<emphasis id="00D6305B52764B751AEB95FC6127A482" box="[1195,1310,2011,2037]" italics="true" pageId="9" pageNumber="570">L. fischeri</emphasis>
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of western and central Africa, a species sometimes confused with
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<taxonomicName id="F5A297CA52754B761CBA92B76746A3C6" authorityName="Sternfeld" authorityYear="1912" box="[762,895,151,177]" class="Squamata" family="Gekkonidae" genus="Lygodactylus" kingdom="Animalia" pageId="10" pageNumber="571" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="scheffleri">
|
||
<emphasis id="00D6305B52754B761CBA92B76746A3C6" box="[762,895,151,177]" italics="true" pageId="10" pageNumber="571">L. scheffleri</emphasis>
|
||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
and
|
||
<taxonomicName id="F5A297CA52754B761DF592B7600BA3C6" authorityName="Matschie" authorityYear="1892" box="[949,1074,151,177]" class="Squamata" family="Gekkonidae" genus="Lygodactylus" kingdom="Animalia" pageId="10" pageNumber="571" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="conradti">
|
||
<emphasis id="00D6305B52754B761DF592B7600BA3C6" box="[949,1074,151,177]" italics="true" pageId="10" pageNumber="571">L. conradti</emphasis>
|
||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
. However,
|
||
<taxonomicName id="F5A297CA52754B761AF292B7611DA3C6" baseAuthorityName="Boulenger" baseAuthorityYear="1890" box="[1202,1316,151,177]" class="Squamata" family="Gekkonidae" genus="Lygodactylus" kingdom="Animalia" pageId="10" pageNumber="571" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="fischeri">
|
||
<emphasis id="00D6305B52754B761AF292B7611DA3C6" box="[1202,1316,151,177]" italics="true" pageId="10" pageNumber="571">L. fischeri</emphasis>
|
||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
is actually a member of a different group (the
|
||
<taxonomicName id="F5A297CA52754B761C69929B66A5A3A2" baseAuthorityName="Boulenger" baseAuthorityYear="1890" box="[553,668,187,213]" class="Squamata" family="Gekkonidae" genus="Lygodactylus" kingdom="Animalia" pageId="10" pageNumber="571" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="fischeri">
|
||
<emphasis id="00D6305B52754B761C69929B66A5A3A2" box="[553,668,187,213]" italics="true" pageId="10" pageNumber="571">L. fischeri</emphasis>
|
||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
-group), which originally contained two other West African species, namely
|
||
<taxonomicName id="F5A297CA52754B761EB292FF65F8A38E" authority="Tornier" authorityName="Tornier" authorityYear="1902" box="[242,449,223,249]" class="Squamata" family="Gekkonidae" genus="Lygodactylus" kingdom="Animalia" pageId="10" pageNumber="571" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="conraui">
|
||
<emphasis id="00D6305B52754B761EB292FF655EA38F" box="[242,359,223,248]" italics="true" pageId="10" pageNumber="571">L. conraui</emphasis>
|
||
Tornier
|
||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
and
|
||
<taxonomicName id="F5A297CA52754B761FB992FF66D3A38E" authority="(Peters)" baseAuthorityName="Peters" baseAuthorityYear="1881" box="[505,746,223,249]" class="Squamata" family="Gekkonidae" genus="Lygodactylus" kingdom="Animalia" pageId="10" pageNumber="571" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="thomensis">
|
||
<emphasis id="00D6305B52754B761FB992FF66B1A38E" box="[505,648,223,249]" italics="true" pageId="10" pageNumber="571">L. thomensis</emphasis>
|
||
(Peters)
|
||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
.
|
||
<bibRefCitation id="563391B852754B761CB692FF67A2A38E" author="Pasteur, G." box="[758,923,222,249]" pageId="10" pageNumber="571" pagination="1 - 132" refId="ref9476" refString="Pasteur, G. (1965 [1964]) Recherches sur l'evolution des lygodactyles, lezards afromalgaches actuels. Travaux de l'Institut Scientifique Cherifien, Serie Zoologie, 29, 1 - 132." type="book chapter" year="1965">Pasteur (1965)</bibRefCitation>
|
||
erected this group as the only member of his ‘phylum guinéen’ due to the distribution of these species in western Africa. However, in doing so he deliberately ignored that the members of this group are inconsistent in typical scale characters: while
|
||
<taxonomicName id="F5A297CA52754B761A2B930760E5A236" baseAuthorityName="Boulenger" baseAuthorityYear="1890" box="[1131,1244,295,321]" class="Squamata" family="Gekkonidae" genus="Lygodactylus" kingdom="Animalia" pageId="10" pageNumber="571" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="fischeri">
|
||
<emphasis id="00D6305B52754B761A2B930760E5A236" box="[1131,1244,295,321]" italics="true" pageId="10" pageNumber="571">L. fischeri</emphasis>
|
||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
has a double row of enlarged subcaudals and a semi-divided mental, both
|
||
<taxonomicName id="F5A297CA52754B761D45936B6740A213" authorityName="Tornier" authorityYear="1902" box="[773,889,331,356]" class="Squamata" family="Gekkonidae" genus="Lygodactylus" kingdom="Animalia" pageId="10" pageNumber="571" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="conraui">
|
||
<emphasis id="00D6305B52754B761D45936B6740A213" box="[773,889,331,356]" italics="true" pageId="10" pageNumber="571">L. conraui</emphasis>
|
||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
and
|
||
<taxonomicName id="F5A297CA52754B761DED936B6003A212" baseAuthorityName="Peters" baseAuthorityYear="1881" box="[941,1082,331,357]" class="Squamata" family="Gekkonidae" genus="Lygodactylus" kingdom="Animalia" pageId="10" pageNumber="571" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="thomensis">
|
||
<emphasis id="00D6305B52754B761DED936B6003A212" box="[941,1082,331,357]" italics="true" pageId="10" pageNumber="571">L. thomensis</emphasis>
|
||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
have only one median row with strongly enlarged subcaudals and a large, undivided mental. Judging from these scale characters,
|
||
<taxonomicName id="F5A297CA52754B761A97934F6171A2FE" baseAuthorityName="Boulenger" baseAuthorityYear="1890" box="[1239,1352,367,393]" class="Squamata" family="Gekkonidae" genus="Lygodactylus" kingdom="Animalia" pageId="10" pageNumber="571" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="fischeri">
|
||
<emphasis id="00D6305B52754B761A97934F6171A2FE" box="[1239,1352,367,393]" italics="true" pageId="10" pageNumber="571">L. fischeri</emphasis>
|
||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
fits the species of the
|
||
<emphasis id="00D6305B52754B761F7793B365FFA2DA" box="[311,454,403,429]" italics="true" pageId="10" pageNumber="571">L. scheffleri-</emphasis>
|
||
group much better. Indeed, it would seem justified to split up the ‘
|
||
<taxonomicName id="F5A297CA52754B761AEA93B36125A2DA" baseAuthorityName="Boulenger" baseAuthorityYear="1890" box="[1194,1308,403,429]" class="Squamata" family="Gekkonidae" genus="Lygodactylus" kingdom="Animalia" pageId="10" pageNumber="571" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="fischeri">
|
||
<emphasis id="00D6305B52754B761AEA93B36125A2DA" box="[1194,1308,403,429]" italics="true" pageId="10" pageNumber="571">L. fischeri</emphasis>
|
||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
’-group.
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph id="321DEC4952754B761E87939767FCA14A" blockId="10.[151,1437,151,573]" pageId="10" pageNumber="571">
|
||
To resolve the crucial points discussed above, a revision of the
|
||
<taxonomicName id="F5A297CA52754B761DD893976026A2A6" authorityName="Sternfeld" authorityYear="1912" box="[920,1055,439,465]" class="Squamata" family="Gekkonidae" genus="Lygodactylus" kingdom="Animalia" pageId="10" pageNumber="571" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="scheffleri">
|
||
<emphasis id="00D6305B52754B761DD893976026A2A6" box="[920,1055,439,465]" italics="true" pageId="10" pageNumber="571">L. scheffleri</emphasis>
|
||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
-group is necessary. To date, only three members of the
|
||
<taxonomicName id="F5A297CA52754B761FCD93FB662AA282" authorityName="Sternfeld" authorityYear="1912" box="[397,531,475,501]" class="Squamata" family="Gekkonidae" genus="Lygodactylus" kingdom="Animalia" pageId="10" pageNumber="571" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="scheffleri">
|
||
<emphasis id="00D6305B52754B761FCD93FB662AA282" box="[397,531,475,501]" italics="true" pageId="10" pageNumber="571">L. scheffleri</emphasis>
|
||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
-group (
|
||
<emphasis id="00D6305B52754B761C2F93FB6796A282" box="[623,943,475,501]" italics="true" pageId="10" pageNumber="571">
|
||
<taxonomicName id="F5A297CA52754B761C2F93FB66EFA283" authorityName="Pasteur" authorityYear="1965" box="[623,726,475,500]" class="Squamata" family="Gekkonidae" genus="Lygodactylus" kingdom="Animalia" pageId="10" pageNumber="571" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="gravis">L. gravis</taxonomicName>
|
||
,
|
||
<taxonomicName id="F5A297CA52754B761CA193FB6796A282" authorityName="Pasteur" authorityYear="1964" box="[737,943,475,501]" class="Squamata" family="Gekkonidae" genus="Lygodactylus" kingdom="Animalia" pageId="10" pageNumber="571" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="laterimaculatus">L. laterimaculatus</taxonomicName>
|
||
</emphasis>
|
||
and
|
||
<taxonomicName id="F5A297CA52754B761DA793FB6077A282" authorityName="Röll & Pinto & Lobón-Rovira" authorityYear="2024" box="[999,1102,475,501]" class="Squamata" family="Gekkonidae" genus="Lygodactylus" kingdom="Animalia" pageId="10" pageNumber="571" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="lobeke" status="sp. nov.">
|
||
<emphasis id="00D6305B52754B761DA793FB6077A282" box="[999,1102,475,501]" italics="true" pageId="10" pageNumber="571">L. lobeke</emphasis>
|
||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
<emphasis id="00D6305B52754B761A1593FB6096A282" bold="true" box="[1109,1199,475,501]" pageId="10" pageNumber="571">
|
||
<taxonomicNameLabel id="1BE58D2052754B761A1593FB6096A282" box="[1109,1199,475,501]" pageId="10" pageNumber="571" rank="species">sp. nov.</taxonomicNameLabel>
|
||
</emphasis>
|
||
) have been analyzed genetically. For all other members of the
|
||
<taxonomicName id="F5A297CA52754B761CCC93DF672EA16E" authorityName="Sternfeld" authorityYear="1912" box="[652,791,511,537]" class="Squamata" family="Gekkonidae" genus="Lygodactylus" kingdom="Animalia" pageId="10" pageNumber="571" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="scheffleri">
|
||
<emphasis id="00D6305B52754B761CCC93DF672EA16E" box="[652,791,511,537]" italics="true" pageId="10" pageNumber="571">L. scheffleri</emphasis>
|
||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
-group, including its candidate member—
|
||
<taxonomicName id="F5A297CA52754B761B4293DF6140A16E" baseAuthorityName="Boulenger" baseAuthorityYear="1890" box="[1282,1401,511,537]" class="Squamata" family="Gekkonidae" genus="Lygodactylus" kingdom="Animalia" pageId="10" pageNumber="571" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="fischeri">
|
||
<emphasis id="00D6305B52754B761B4293DF6140A16E" box="[1282,1401,511,537]" italics="true" pageId="10" pageNumber="571">L. fischeri</emphasis>
|
||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
—, sequence data are not yet available, but are most desirable for a revision.
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
</subSubSection>
|
||
</treatment>
|
||
</document> |