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was described from Medje, Haut-Uele Province,
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, by Schmidt, who described the species as an intermediate form between
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<emphasis id="B96E6451FFC0FFE8FB9345A0FB43FA45" box="[1105,1231,1498,1521]" italics="true" pageId="23" pageNumber="470">L. picturatus</emphasis>
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and
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<emphasis id="B96E6451FFC0FFE8FACA45A0FA0DFA46" box="[1288,1409,1498,1522]" italics="true" pageId="23" pageNumber="470">L. gutturalis</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
:
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The relation of this species with
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<emphasis id="B96E6451FFC0FFE8FBB44580FAD5F9A5" box="[1142,1369,1530,1553]" italics="true" pageId="23" pageNumber="470">L. picturatus picturatus</emphasis>
(Peters)
</taxonomicName>
appears to be close; its coloration is in some respects similar but does not seem to fall within the wide variation … chevrons of the throat equally distinct in the female (only two Vs in three of the
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) narrower than in
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<emphasis id="B96E6451FFC0FFE8FB29460CFACAF93A" box="[1259,1350,1654,1678]" italics="true" pageId="23" pageNumber="470">gutturalis</emphasis>
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… Venter and enlarged subcaudals immaculate yellow in life—an apparently constant distinction from
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<emphasis id="B96E6451FFC0FFE8FBAA46CFFA21F979" box="[1128,1453,1717,1741]" italics="true" pageId="23" pageNumber="470">Lygodactylus picturatus gutturalis</emphasis>
(
<bibRefCitation id="EF8BC5B2FFC0FFE8FCF746AEFB89F958" author="Schmidt KP" box="[821,1029,1748,1772]" pageId="23" pageNumber="470" pagination="385 - 624" refId="ref37222" refString="Schmidt KP. Contributions to the herpetology of the Belgian Congo based on the collection of the American Museum Congo Expedition, 1909 - 1915. Part I: turtles, crocodiles, lizards, and chamaeleons. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 1919; 39: 385 - 624." type="journal article" year="1919">Schmidt 1919: 466</bibRefCitation>
)
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. However,
<bibRefCitation id="EF8BC5B2FFC0FFE8FB4646AEFAF4F958" author="Loveridge A" box="[1156,1400,1748,1772]" pageId="23" pageNumber="470" pagination="1 - 469" refId="ref35578" refString="Loveridge A. Revision of the African lizards of the family Gekkonidae. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 1947; 98: 1 - 469." type="journal article" year="1947">Loveridge (1947: 227)</bibRefCitation>
, relegated this taxon to a subspecies of
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<emphasis id="B96E6451FFC0FFE8FB5F468EFA97F8BF" box="[1181,1307,1780,1803]" italics="true" pageId="23" pageNumber="470">L. picturatus</emphasis>
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, stating:
<emphasis id="B96E6451FFC0FFE8FA46468EFA13F8BF" box="[1412,1439,1780,1803]" italics="true" pageId="23" pageNumber="470"></emphasis>
a somewhat doubtful race, differing from
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<emphasis id="B96E6451FFC0FFE8FB094769FAAAF89F" box="[1227,1318,1811,1835]" italics="true" pageId="23" pageNumber="470">gutturalis</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
only in gular and subcaudal markings
<emphasis id="B96E6451FFC0FFE8FBE44749FBCDF8FE" box="[1062,1089,1843,1866]" italics="true" pageId="23" pageNumber="470"></emphasis>
. This taxonomic action was ignored by Pasteur, 1965(1964), but followed by
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, both authors without justification.
<bibRefCitation id="EF8BC5B2FFC0FFE8FB96470BFB52F83D" author="Kluge AG" box="[1108,1246,1905,1929]" pageId="23" pageNumber="470" refId="ref35077" refString="Kluge AG. Gekkonoid Lizard Taxonomy. San Diego: International Gecko Society, 1993." type="book" year="1993">Kluge (1993)</bibRefCitation>
included
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<emphasis id="B96E6451FFC0FFE8FA824708FA3FF83D" box="[1344,1459,1905,1929]" italics="true" pageId="23" pageNumber="470">L. depressus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
as a full species, in his checklist again without any justification of his taxonomic decision.
</paragraph>
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Since then this species has been collected in different regions of the
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Basin. However, this material was overlooked in many publications that revisited the
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<emphasis id="B96E6451FFCFFFE7FDC740B5FD08FF52" box="[517,644,207,230]" italics="true" pageId="24" pageNumber="471">L. picturatus</emphasis>
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group (
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Röll
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2010
</bibRefCitation>
,
<bibRefCitation id="EF8BC5B2FFCFFFE7FF3D4094FE5EFEB2" author="Malonza PK &amp; Granthon C &amp; Williams DA" box="[255,466,238,262]" pageId="24" pageNumber="471" pagination="418 - 28" refId="ref35732" refString="Malonza PK, Granthon C, Williams DA. A new species of dwarf gecko in the genus Lygodactylus (Squamata: Gekkonidae) from central Kenya. Zootaxa 2016; 4061: 418 - 28. https: // doi. org / 10.11646 / zootaxa. 4061.4.6" type="journal article" year="2016">
Malonza
<emphasis id="B96E6451FFCFFFE7FEA04095FE19FEB2" box="[354,405,238,262]" italics="true" pageId="24" pageNumber="471">et al.</emphasis>
2016
</bibRefCitation>
,
<bibRefCitation id="EF8BC5B2FFCFFFE7FE234094FD99FEB2" author="Malonza PK &amp; Bauer AM &amp; Granthon C" box="[481,533,238,262]" pageId="24" pageNumber="471" pagination="308 - 20" refId="ref35682" refString="Malonza PK, Bauer AM, Granthon C et al. A new species of gecko of the genus Lygodactylus (Sauria: Gekkonidae) from southeastern Kenya. Zootaxa 2019; 4609: 308 - 20. https: // doi. org / 10.11646 / zootaxa. 4609.2.6" type="journal article" year="2019">2019</bibRefCitation>
). We recovered a genetic clade that is sister to
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<emphasis id="B96E6451FFCFFFE7FE464174FE75FE91" box="[388,505,269,293]" italics="true" pageId="24" pageNumber="471">L. gutturalis</emphasis>
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, from the rainforest of the
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Basin (
<figureCitation id="1321A4C6FFCFFFE7FED04157FEC0FEF1" box="[274,332,301,325]" captionStart="Figure 1" captionStartId="9.[114,179,1431,1455]" captionTargetBox="[115,1460,146,1402]" captionTargetId="figure-247@9.[113,1460,144,1403]" captionTargetPageId="9" captionText="Figure 1. Maximum likelihood analysis based on 532 bp of the mitochondrial 16S rRNA gene, for all available samples of the Afro-American Lygodactylus Clade (Clade C of Gippner et al. 2021). Support values (ML BS = Maximum Likelihood bootstrap values; BI PP = Bayesian Inference posterior probabilities) are shown graphically at the nodes according to the colours shown in the inset key." figureDoi="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13302837" httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/13302837/files/figure.png" pageId="24" pageNumber="471">Figs 1</figureCitation>
,
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) that differs by
<emphasis id="B96E6451FFCFFFE7FDC24157FD85FEF0" box="[512,521,301,324]" italics="true" pageId="24" pageNumber="471">c</emphasis>
. 9.04% (
<emphasis id="B96E6451FFCFFFE7FDA04156FD05FEF0" box="[610,649,300,324]" italics="true" pageId="24" pageNumber="471">16S</emphasis>
uncorrected p-distance; Table 2) from its sister taxon. Among this material, we included specimens from Lake Tumba, where historical material of
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<emphasis id="B96E6451FFCFFFE7FF1741F1FEC5FE17" box="[213,329,395,419]" italics="true" pageId="24" pageNumber="471">L. depressus</emphasis>
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was previously collected. Consequently, we revised historical material collected from the
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Basin, tentatively attributed to
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<emphasis id="B96E6451FFCFFFE7FE9F41B0FE59FE55" box="[349,469,457,481]" italics="true" pageId="24" pageNumber="471">L. gutturalis</emphasis>
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and
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<emphasis id="B96E6451FFCFFFE7FDCE41B0FD0EFE55" box="[524,642,457,481]" italics="true" pageId="24" pageNumber="471">L. depressus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
(Supporting Information, Table S2). After morphological examination and comparison of preserved specimens (faded), we observed a complete overlap between specimens ascribed to these two taxa, failing to identify any morphological differences based on pholidosis or gular ornamentation. In his description of
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<emphasis id="B96E6451FFCFFFE7FD37421DFF56FD29" italics="true" pageId="24" pageNumber="471">L. depressus</emphasis>
,
<bibRefCitation id="EF8BC5B2FFCFFFE7FF2B42FFFE45FD29" author="Schmidt KP" box="[233,457,645,669]" pageId="24" pageNumber="471" pagination="385 - 624" refId="ref37222" refString="Schmidt KP. Contributions to the herpetology of the Belgian Congo based on the collection of the American Museum Congo Expedition, 1909 - 1915. Part I: turtles, crocodiles, lizards, and chamaeleons. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 1919; 39: 385 - 624." type="journal article" year="1919">Schmidt (1919: 466)</bibRefCitation>
</taxonomicName>
remarked: ‘… coloration dark blueish grey, irregularly mottled with black, more heavily anteriorly …’. However, he also made reference to colour variation recorded by Herbert O. Lang (collector): ‘…
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was entirely black when caught, turning blueish grey when injected …’. We observed that
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allocated to
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<emphasis id="B96E6451FFCFFFE7FDAE4359FD53FC8E" box="[620,735,802,826]" italics="true" pageId="24" pageNumber="471">L. depressus</emphasis>
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and collected at Lotende (a river at Mabali, the site of a colonial-era research station at Lake Tumba;
<bibRefCitation id="EF8BC5B2FFCFFFE7FE22431AFDE6FCCC" author="Marlier G" box="[480,618,864,888]" pageId="24" pageNumber="471" pagination="352 - 85" refId="ref35781" refString="Marlier G. Recherches hydrobiologiques au lac Tumba (Congo Belge, Province de l'Equateur). Hydrobiologia 1958; 10: 352 - 85. https: // doi. org / 10.1007 / BF 00142195" type="journal article" year="1958">Marlier 1958</bibRefCitation>
), Lake Tumba (RMCA 1981.065.R.005) by Laurent, exhibit both colour morphs described for
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<emphasis id="B96E6451FFCFFFE7FE9F43DAFE43FC03" box="[349,463,927,951]" italics="true" pageId="24" pageNumber="471">L. depressus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
(mottled and uniform). In contrast,
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(RMCA R.8575/A and RMCA R.8575/B) collected from Flandria,
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,
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(~
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north-east from the previous locality) and identified by de Witte in 1923 (RMCA unpublished data) as
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<emphasis id="B96E6451FFCFFFE7FDE34467FD16FB80" box="[545,666,1052,1076]" italics="true" pageId="24" pageNumber="471">L. gutturalis</emphasis>
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, show the same two dorsal patterns as the previous specimens mentioned above (
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). Two additional specimens (RMCA 1038/B and 1038/C) were collected from the Ituri Forest (without a precise locality within this region, but in the same region as the
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locality of
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<emphasis id="B96E6451FFCFFFE7FF2D44C0FEE9FB65" box="[239,357,1209,1233]" italics="true" pageId="24" pageNumber="471">L. depressus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
) and tentatively assigned to
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<emphasis id="B96E6451FFCFFFE7FD5044C0FC85FB65" box="[658,777,1209,1233]" italics="true" pageId="24" pageNumber="471">L. gutturalis</emphasis>
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by de Witte in 1923 (RMCA unpublished data). However, these specimens have morphological characters that are intermediate between these two taxa. Thus, material from
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and
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(previously attributed to
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<emphasis id="B96E6451FFCFFFE7FB4440EAFB76FF1C" box="[1158,1274,144,168]" italics="true" pageId="24" pageNumber="471">L. gutturalis</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
), shows substantial morphological overlap with topotypic material of
<taxonomicName id="4C1AC3C0FFCFFFE7FA8440CAFA30FF73" ID-CoL="3WQ3G" authorityName=", Schmidt" authorityYear="1919" box="[1350,1468,175,199]" class="Reptilia" family="Gekkonidae" genus="Lygodactylus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Squamata" pageId="24" pageNumber="471" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="depressus">
<emphasis id="B96E6451FFCFFFE7FA8440CAFA30FF73" box="[1350,1468,175,199]" italics="true" pageId="24" pageNumber="471">L. depressus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
, making it impossible to differentiate them from the
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series (
<figureCitation id="1321A4C6FFCFFFE7FC864094FC1DFEB1" box="[836,913,237,262]" captionStart="Figure 15" captionStartId="26.[129,194,1836,1860]" captionTargetBox="[198,1405,144,1808]" captionTargetId="figure-10@26.[198,1405,144,1808]" captionTargetPageId="26" captionText="Figure 15. Specimens of L. depressus in life or freshly euthanized from (A) Npenda, Équateur Province, DRC (UTEP 22580), (B) Katopa, Maniema Province, DRC (UTEP 22597), (C) Lake Tumba, Équateur Province, DRC (UTEP 22578), and (EG) Barra do Cuanza, Cuanza Sul Province, Angola (MNCN 50772). Photo of habitat at (D) Lake Tumba, Équateur Province, DRC and (H) Barra do Cuanza, Cuanza Sul Province, Angola. Photographs by E.G.(AC), C.K. (D), P.V.P.(EG), and J.L.R. (H)." figureDoi="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13302887" httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/13302887/files/figure.png" pageId="24" pageNumber="471">Figs 15</figureCitation>
,
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). The specimen collected from
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(MNCN 50772) has a dark blueish coloration
<emphasis id="B96E6451FFCFFFE7FB074174FB71FE91" box="[1221,1277,269,293]" italics="true" pageId="24" pageNumber="471">in life</emphasis>
(
<figureCitation id="1321A4C6FFCFFFE7FAD24177FAE7FE91" box="[1296,1387,269,293]" captionStart="Figure 15" captionStartId="26.[129,194,1836,1860]" captionTargetBox="[198,1405,144,1808]" captionTargetId="figure-10@26.[198,1405,144,1808]" captionTargetPageId="26" captionText="Figure 15. Specimens of L. depressus in life or freshly euthanized from (A) Npenda, Équateur Province, DRC (UTEP 22580), (B) Katopa, Maniema Province, DRC (UTEP 22597), (C) Lake Tumba, Équateur Province, DRC (UTEP 22578), and (EG) Barra do Cuanza, Cuanza Sul Province, Angola (MNCN 50772). Photo of habitat at (D) Lake Tumba, Équateur Province, DRC and (H) Barra do Cuanza, Cuanza Sul Province, Angola. Photographs by E.G.(AC), C.K. (D), P.V.P.(EG), and J.L.R. (H)." figureDoi="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13302887" httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/13302887/files/figure.png" pageId="24" pageNumber="471">Fig. 15G</figureCitation>
), as described in
<taxonomicName id="4C1AC3C0FFCFFFE7FC644157FB97FEF0" ID-CoL="3WQ3G" authorityName=", Schmidt" authorityYear="1919" box="[934,1051,300,324]" class="Reptilia" family="Gekkonidae" genus="Lygodactylus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Squamata" pageId="24" pageNumber="471" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="depressus">
<emphasis id="B96E6451FFCFFFE7FC644157FB97FEF0" box="[934,1051,300,324]" italics="true" pageId="24" pageNumber="471">L. depressus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
. Consequently, due to the high morphological and geographic overlap, we consider that this clade, sister to
<emphasis id="B96E6451FFCFFFE7FC964116FC67FE37" box="[852,1003,363,387]" italics="true" pageId="24" pageNumber="471">
<taxonomicName id="4C1AC3C0FFCFFFE7FC964116FC45FE37" ID-CoL="3WQ3T" box="[852,969,363,387]" class="Reptilia" family="Gekkonidae" genus="Lygodactylus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Squamata" pageId="24" pageNumber="471" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="gutturalis">L. gutturalis</taxonomicName>
<taxonomicNameLabel id="A25DD92AFFCFFFE7FC124116FC67FE37" box="[976,1003,364,387]" pageId="24" pageNumber="471" sensu="stricto">s.s.</taxonomicNameLabel>
</emphasis>
(
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), represents
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<emphasis id="B96E6451FFCFFFE7FB7B4116FAA1FE37" box="[1209,1325,363,387]" italics="true" pageId="24" pageNumber="471">L. depressus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
. Nevertheless, we recommend caution until topotypic material can be included in a phylogenetic context, because the possibility of further cryptic diversification within this group cannot be excluded.
</paragraph>
<paragraph id="8BA5B843FFCFFFE7FC974192FCF5FD6F" blockId="24.[825,1474,144,731]" pageId="24" pageNumber="471">
A photographic record from Molondou,
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,
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, reported by Chirio and LeBreton (2007), and attributed to
<taxonomicName id="4C1AC3C0FFCFFFE7FC6C4252FBAEFD8B" authorityName=", Schmidt" authorityYear="1919" box="[942,1058,551,575]" class="Reptilia" family="Gekkonidae" genus="Lygodactylus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Squamata" pageId="24" pageNumber="471" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="depressus">
<emphasis id="B96E6451FFCFFFE7FC6C4252FBAEFD8B" box="[942,1058,551,575]" italics="true" pageId="24" pageNumber="471">L. depressus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
, does not agree with the diagnostic dark blueish coloration mentioned by
<bibRefCitation id="EF8BC5B2FFCFFFE7FB44423CFAA7FDEA" author="Schmidt KP" box="[1158,1323,582,606]" pageId="24" pageNumber="471" pagination="385 - 624" refId="ref37222" refString="Schmidt KP. Contributions to the herpetology of the Belgian Congo based on the collection of the American Museum Congo Expedition, 1909 - 1915. Part I: turtles, crocodiles, lizards, and chamaeleons. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 1919; 39: 385 - 624." type="journal article" year="1919">Schmidt (1919)</bibRefCitation>
. Therefore, because of the highly diverse character of the
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<emphasis id="B96E6451FFCFFFE7FB37421CFADAFDC9" box="[1269,1366,614,637]" italics="true" pageId="24" pageNumber="471">picturatus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
subgroup, records from
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and other localities west and north of the Ubangi and
<collectingCountry id="F30DF8D3FFCFFFE7FC2642DEFBA6FD08" box="[996,1066,676,700]" name="Democratic Republic of the Congo" pageId="24" pageNumber="471">Congo</collectingCountry>
rivers might belong to an undescribed taxon.
</paragraph>
</subSubSection>
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<paragraph id="8BA5B843FFCFFFE7FCFB437FFBE1FCE9" blockId="24.[825,1474,773,861]" pageId="24" pageNumber="471">
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<emphasis id="B96E6451FFCFFFE7FCFB437FFC1EFCA9" box="[825,914,773,797]" italics="true" pageId="24" pageNumber="471">
<typeStatus id="54A106E1FFCFFFE7FCFB437FFC1EFCA9" box="[825,914,773,797]" pageId="24" pageNumber="471" type="holotype">Holotype</typeStatus>
</emphasis>
(
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):
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, adult male with original tail, collected at
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,
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,
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,
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, on
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<collectingDate id="EFE0676BFFCFFFE7FA77435FFC16FCE8" pageId="24" pageNumber="471" value="1914-07-05">5 July 1914</collectingDate>
</date>
by
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</paragraph>
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(
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):
</emphasis>
<emphasis id="B96E6451FFCFFFE7FAD94304FAAAFC22" bold="true" box="[1307,1318,894,918]" pageId="24" pageNumber="471"></emphasis>
<emphasis id="B96E6451FFCFFFE7FAED4304FAEEFC21" box="[1327,1378,894,917]" italics="true" pageId="24" pageNumber="471">
<collectingCountry id="F30DF8D3FFCFFFE7FAED4304FAEEFC21" box="[1327,1378,894,917]" name="Democratic Republic of the Congo" pageId="24" pageNumber="471">DRC</collectingCountry>
</emphasis>
(
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)
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:
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.3216 (formerly
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), males (
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;
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/
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(
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/
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), males, and
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<specimenCode id="DBBC1038FFCFFFE7FAC24381FA35FBA7" box="[1280,1465,1019,1043]" collectionCode="UTEP" country="USA" httpUri="http://biocol.org/urn:lsid:biocol.org:col:15719" lsid="urn:lsid:biocol.org:col:15719" name="University of Texas at El Paso Biodiversity Collections" pageId="24" pageNumber="471" type="Museum">UTEP 2258081</specimenCode>
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/
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(
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/
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), females, collected at
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, north-east of
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,
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<emphasis id="B96E6451FFCFFFE7FF4347FEFF69F828" bold="true" box="[129,229,1924,1948]" pageId="24" pageNumber="471">Figure 13.</emphasis>
Dorsolateral and ventral variation of two male specimens [RMCA R.8575/A (left) and RMCA R.8575/B (right)] of
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, collected in sympatry at Flandria, Équateur Province, DRC.
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<emphasis id="B96E6451FFCEFFE6FFB34429FF5AFBDF" bold="true" box="[113,214,1107,1131]" pageId="25" pageNumber="472">Figure 14.</emphasis>
Holotype of
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(AMNH 10345) from Medje, Ituri Forest, Haut-Uele Province, DRC. A, Dorsal and ventral view of body. B, Detailed view of head in dorsal, ventral, and lateral views (from top to bottom). C, Details of cloacal region. D, Details of left manus. Photos provided by Lauren Vonnahme: American Museum of Natural History, New York City (AMNH).
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Diagnosis:
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is a large-sized
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). Males with 78 precloacal pores. Ventral pholidosis with large, flattened, and imbricate scales. Ventral scales usually with small denticulation posteriorly. Digits elongated with five terminal scansors on the fourth toe (Supporting Information, Table S6).
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Like other members of the
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group members and from other members of the
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subgroup by the gular pattern and dorsal colour pattern (
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). It should be noted that
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<emphasis id="B96E6451FFCEFFE6FD24471AFF47F823" italics="true" pageId="25" pageNumber="472">L. depressus</emphasis>
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has a dark blueish grey dorsum
<emphasis id="B96E6451FFCEFFE6FDD94705FDDDF823" box="[539,593,1919,1943]" italics="true" pageId="25" pageNumber="472">in life</emphasis>
, unlike the light blueish dorsal coloration in the
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<emphasis id="B96E6451FFCEFFE6FE7147E5FD98F802" box="[435,532,1951,1974]" italics="true" pageId="25" pageNumber="472">picturatus</emphasis>
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subgroup.
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<emphasis id="B96E6451FFCEFFE6FC8744A9FBABFB5F" box="[837,1063,1235,1259]" italics="true" pageId="25" pageNumber="472">Lygodactylus depressus</emphasis>
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can be differentiated from other species within the
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<emphasis id="B96E6451FFCEFFE6FC074488FBACFABE" box="[965,1056,1266,1290]" italics="true" pageId="25" pageNumber="472">gutturalis</emphasis>
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subgroup by having a dark blueish grey coloration of the dorsum, with some specimens having a mottled pattern on the dorsum, vs. brownish or light grey without a mottled pattern in
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<emphasis id="B96E6451FFCEFFE6FBDA452BFB18FADC" box="[1048,1172,1360,1384]" italics="true" pageId="25" pageNumber="472">L. gutturalis</emphasis>
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. However, blackish specimens can only be differentiated by subtle morphometric and meristic data, being almost impossible to differentiate in the field.
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<emphasis id="B96E6451FFCEFFE6FCA145D4FBC8FA72" box="[867,1092,1454,1478]" italics="true" pageId="25" pageNumber="472">Lygodactylus depressus</emphasis>
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can be partially differentiated from
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<emphasis id="B96E6451FFCEFFE6FCE845B4FC13FA51" box="[810,927,1485,1509]" italics="true" pageId="25" pageNumber="472">L. gutturalis</emphasis>
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as follows: eye proportionally smaller in
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<emphasis id="B96E6451FFCEFFE6FAFD45B4FA3FFA51" box="[1343,1459,1485,1509]" italics="true" pageId="25" pageNumber="472">L. depressus</emphasis>
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(OD/HL ≤ 0.25 vs.
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); and narrower snout (IN/HW ≤ 0.29 vs.
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). It also differs by a minimum of
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. 9.04% uncorrected p-distance for
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(Table 2), lacks any nuclear haplotype sharing with
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<emphasis id="B96E6451FFCEFFE6FAFF4631FA3EF9D7" box="[1341,1458,1611,1635]" italics="true" pageId="25" pageNumber="472">L. gutturalis</emphasis>
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in
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(
<figureCitation id="1321A4C6FFCEFFE6FC5B4610FC59F936" box="[921,981,1642,1666]" captionStart="Figure 2" captionStartId="11.[113,178,1269,1293]" captionTargetBox="[117,1455,147,1239]" captionTargetId="figure-288@11.[114,1458,144,1242]" captionTargetPageId="11" captionText="Figure 2. A, Multilocus species tree and Bayesian chronogram of divergences among Afro-American Lygodactylus clade (Clade C of Gippner et al. 2021), based on an alignment of 13 concatenated markers (including eight nuclear-encoded genes, four protein-coding mitochondrial genes, and the 16S mitochondrial rRNA gene, see Gippner et al.2021). Branches with posterior probability&gt; 0.9 are denoted by asterisks (*) at relevant nodes. Blue bars depict 95% High Probability Density (HPD) intervals of estimated divergence dates.B, Median-joining nuclear allele network showing the relationships between the L. picturatus-fischeri groups, inferred from the RAG1 nuclear gene (262 bp including all available RAG1 sequences of the L. picturatus-fischeri groups).C, Median-joining nuclear allele network of the RAG1 nuclear gene (980 bp) showing the relationships within the L. gutturalis subgroup, excluding L. gutturalis s.s. In all networks, circle frequency of alleles and small lines represent mutational steps." figureDoi="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13302840" httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/13302840/files/figure.png" pageId="25" pageNumber="472">Fig. 2</figureCitation>
), and habitat (rainforest for
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<emphasis id="B96E6451FFCEFFE6FAC94611FA0FF936" box="[1291,1411,1642,1666]" italics="true" pageId="25" pageNumber="472">L. depressus</emphasis>
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and sub-Saharan savannah for
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<emphasis id="B96E6451FFCEFFE6FBF746F0FB26F915" box="[1077,1194,1673,1697]" italics="true" pageId="25" pageNumber="472">L. gutturalis</emphasis>
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). It can also be differentiated from
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<emphasis id="B96E6451FFCEFFE6FC5646D3FB89F974" box="[916,1029,1704,1728]" italics="true" pageId="25" pageNumber="472">L. dysmicus</emphasis>
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by having fewer precloacal pores (78 vs.
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<emphasis id="B96E6451FFCEFFE6FC9846B3FC40F954" box="[858,972,1736,1760]" italics="true" pageId="25" pageNumber="472">L. dysmicus</emphasis>
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) and nostril never in contact with rostral scale vs. nostril contacting the rostral in
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<emphasis id="B96E6451FFCEFFE6FB4F4692FB72F94B" box="[1165,1278,1767,1791]" italics="true" pageId="25" pageNumber="472">L. dysmicus</emphasis>
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. For a distinction from other species not included above, described herein, see the respective diagnoses below.
</paragraph>
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<emphasis id="B96E6451FFCEFFE6FCE84725FC51F8C3" box="[810,989,1887,1911]" italics="true" pageId="25" pageNumber="472">Coloration: In life</emphasis>
(
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), dorsal colour is highly variable; predominantly dark grey, with lighter grey blotches surrounded by black dots on the flanks, which can form a diffuse dorsolateral band; dark
<emphasis id="B96E6451FFCCFFE4FF2F4463FF71FB84" box="[237,253,1049,1072]" italics="true" pageId="27" pageNumber="474">V</emphasis>
-shaped line between the eyes (absent in darker specimens), and black line from snout to anterior insertion of the forelimb; tail with diffuse bars of lighter grey; throat usually with white background and black chevrons; venter vivid yellow, orange, or cream from tail tip to posterior part of the gular region.
<emphasis id="B96E6451FFCCFFE4FF6944CFFEB4FB78" box="[171,312,1205,1228]" italics="true" pageId="27" pageNumber="474">In preservative</emphasis>
(
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;
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), dorsum grey with dark brown dots from head to midbody; venter uniform light cream to yellow with whitish colouration on all digits.
</paragraph>
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<emphasis id="B96E6451FFCDFFE5FF434756FF69F8F0" bold="true" box="[129,229,1836,1860]" pageId="26" pageNumber="473">Figure 15.</emphasis>
Specimens of
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in life or freshly euthanized from (A) Npenda, Équateur Province, DRC (UTEP 22580), (B) Katopa, Maniema Province, DRC (UTEP 22597), (C) Lake Tumba, Équateur Province, DRC (UTEP 22578), and (EG) Barra do Cuanza, Cuanza Sul Province, Angola (MNCN 50772). Photo of habitat at (D) Lake Tumba, Équateur Province, DRC and (H) Barra do Cuanza, Cuanza Sul Province, Angola. Photographs by E.G. (AC), C.K. (D), P.V.P. (EG), and J.L.R. (H).
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<emphasis id="B96E6451FFCCFFE4FFB243BBFF58FC6D" bold="true" box="[112,212,961,985]" pageId="27" pageNumber="474">Figure 16.</emphasis>
Dorsal and ventral views of head showing gular ornamentation and pholidosis variation in
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. Red points denote males and blue points denote females.
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<emphasis id="B96E6451FFCCFFE4FFB34557FF58FAF0" box="[113,212,1325,1348]" italics="true" pageId="27" pageNumber="474">Variation:</emphasis>
Meristic and morphometric data are summarized and depicted in the Supporting Information (Table S6) and
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.
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is the most variable taxon within the
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<emphasis id="B96E6451FFCCFFE4FF5545F1FE87FA17" box="[151,267,1419,1443]" italics="true" pageId="27" pageNumber="474">L. gutturalis</emphasis>
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group with respect to coloration, particularly the gular pattern (
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). Some specimens lose the dorsal pattern, resulting in a uniform dorsal coloration. However, other specimens have a mottled dorsal pattern (
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).
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<emphasis id="B96E6451FFCCFFE4FFB34658FEEDF98E" box="[113,353,1570,1594]" italics="true" pageId="27" pageNumber="474">Habitat and distribution</emphasis>
(
<figureCitation id="1321A4C6FFCCFFE4FEBA4658FE39F98E" box="[376,437,1570,1594]" captionStart="Figure 6" captionStartId="17.[113,178,866,890]" captionTargetBox="[117,1454,147,835]" captionTargetId="figure-489@17.[114,1458,144,838]" captionTargetPageId="17" captionText="Figure 6. Geographical distribution of the L.gutturalis complex in Africa, on a hybrid map of the major vegetation divisions (Sayre et al. 2013) and 1 arc-second elevation map across tropical Africa (NASA 2000). Different colours depict records of different species within the L. gutturalis subgroup; see inset for explanations of symbols.White circles denote records of L. cf. gutturalis that cannot be assigned to any of the nominate taxa. Black stars represent the type localities of each nominate taxon within the L. picturatus subgroup (1 L. picturatus, 1S L. picturatus sudanensis, 1U L. picturatus ukerewensis, 2 L. inexpectatus, 3 L. keniensis, 4 L. kimhowelli, 5 L. manni, 6 L. mombasicus, 7 L. scorteccii, 8 L. tsavoensis, 9 L. wojnowskii, 10 L. williamsi)." figureDoi="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13302854" httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/13302854/files/figure.png" pageId="27" pageNumber="474">Figs 6</figureCitation>
,
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): This species is widely distributed within the
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Basin, from the Ituri Forest in the north-east, through the heart of the
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River at Npenda and Lake Tumba, south to
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at the southernmost extreme of its range. The material from
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was collected from mangroves growing at the mouth of the Cuanza River. However, all material from
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was collected in dense Congolian rainforest.
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<subSubSection id="C300EBC8FFCCFFE4FFB3476DFDD3F87F" pageId="27" pageNumber="474" type="biology_ecology">
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<emphasis id="B96E6451FFCCFFE4FFB3476DFE9BF89B" box="[113,279,1815,1839]" italics="true" pageId="27" pageNumber="474">Natural history:</emphasis>
Individuals in
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were observed actively moving and hunting between the branches and trunk of trees during the day, but due to the difficult access to the mangroves, specimens were collected at night while sleeping on thin branches. Specimens from Lotende,
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, were collected in the canopy, as recorded by Laurent in his field notes.
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