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<emphasis id="B92C694AFFAA9D5CFF26C8CDFE1CFA71" bold="true" box="[151,480,1505,1531]" italics="true" pageId="1" pageNumber="366">Ascalabotes sthenodactylus</emphasis>
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, 1823
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1823
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<emphasis id="B92C694AFFAA9D5CFF6BCB04FEA9F9B4" box="[218,341,1576,1598]" italics="true" pageId="1" pageNumber="366">Ascalabotes</emphasis>
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<emphasis id="B92C694AFFAA9D5CFED4CB04FE07F9B4" box="[357,507,1576,1598]" italics="true" pageId="1" pageNumber="366">sthenodactylus</emphasis>
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Lichtenstein, Verzeichniss
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der Doubletten
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<th id="76B9DE66FFAA62A2FC6BCB04FA61F9B4" box="[986,1437,1576,1598]" gridcol="2" gridrow="0" pageId="1" pageNumber="366">des zoologischen Museums der Königl.</th>
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<th id="76B9DE66FFAA62A2FF26CB6AFEA6F9D6" box="[151,346,1606,1628]" gridcol="0" gridrow="1" pageId="1" pageNumber="366">Universität zu</th>
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<td id="76B9DE66FFAA62A2FED5CB6AFC2FF9D6" box="[356,979,1606,1628]" gridcol="1" gridrow="1" pageId="1" pageNumber="366">Berlin nebst Beschreibung vieler bisher unbekannter Arten</td>
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<td id="76B9DE66FFAA62A2FC6BCB6AFA61F9D6" box="[986,1437,1606,1628]" gridcol="2" gridrow="1" pageId="1" pageNumber="366">von Säugethieren, Vögeln, Amphibien und</td>
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<th id="76B9DE66FFAA62A2FF26CB49FEA6F9F1" box="[151,346,1637,1659]" gridcol="0" gridrow="2" pageId="1" pageNumber="366">Fischen: 102.</th>
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<emphasis id="B92C694AFFAA9D5CFF26CB84FE2DF94A" box="[151,465,1704,1728]" italics="true" pageId="1" pageNumber="366">Ascalabotes sthenodactylus</emphasis>
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was described very briefly by
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(1823b) in the catalogue of duplicate specimens from the collections of the Zoological Museum of Berlin (ZMB, now Museum für Naturkunde). The original description does not refer to any particular specimen, nor does it mention the number of specimens examined, and provides but a very imprecise
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locality: “
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<collectingCountry id="F34FF5C8FFAA9D5CFC89CA38FC6CF8A6" box="[824,912,1812,1836]" name="Egypt" pageId="1" pageNumber="366">Aegypt</collectingCountry>
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. et
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” (=
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and
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).
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<paragraph id="8BE7B558FFAA9D5CFF76CA15FA60F86A" blockId="1.[151,1437,1703,2016]" pageId="1" pageNumber="366">
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Bauer and Günther (1991) and Bauer (2000) gave more detailed information about the specimens on which this name was based. According to these sources,
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(1823b) established this nomen based on specimens collected by Hemprich and Ehrenberg in
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and
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<collectingCountry id="F34FF5C8FFAA9D5CFD6ACA53FCDEF81D" box="[731,802,1919,1943]" name="Sudan" pageId="1" pageNumber="366">Nubia</collectingCountry>
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, some of which are still preserved in the Berlin museum. From these five remaining
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<typeStatus id="54E30BFAFFAA9D5CFE63CA89FDC8F837" box="[466,564,1957,1981]" pageId="1" pageNumber="366" type="syntype">syntypes</typeStatus>
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(Museum für Naturkunde, Berlin, ZMB 437A–C and 438A–B), Bauer and Günther (1991) designated specimen ZMB 437A as
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of
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<taxonomicName id="4C58CEDBFFAA9D5CFC33CAE4FA65F86A" authority="Lichtenstein, 1823" authorityName="Lichtenstein" authorityYear="1823" box="[898,1433,1992,2016]" class="Squamata" family="Gekkonidae" genus="Ascalabotes" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" pageId="1" pageNumber="366" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="sthenodactylus">
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<emphasis id="B92C694AFFAA9D5CFC33CAE4FB46F86A" box="[898,1210,1992,2016]" italics="true" pageId="1" pageNumber="366">Ascalabotes sthenodactylus</emphasis>
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, 1823
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.
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<paragraph id="8BE7B558FFA99D5FFF26CDBBFEDCFEEE" blockId="2.[151,1436,151,501]" pageId="2" pageNumber="367">
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According to the same authors, the collection locality of this specimen is “
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”. In addition, there is one specimen in the BMNH (1946.8.20.49) catalogued as one of the original
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of
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<taxonomicName id="4C58CEDBFFA99D5FFBEECD90FA68FF5E" box="[1119,1428,188,212]" class="Squamata" family="Gekkonidae" genus="Ascalabotes" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" pageId="2" pageNumber="367" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="sthenodactylus">
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<emphasis id="B92C694AFFA99D5FFBEECD90FA68FF5E" box="[1119,1428,188,212]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="367">Ascalabotes sthenodactylus</emphasis>
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. This specimen originates from
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and was presented by Dr. J. Anderson. There is no additional information available supporting its identification as one of the original
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. Even if this specimen were part of the original
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series, it would now have lost its status as name-bearing
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after the aforementioned
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designation.
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According to Bauer (2000), however, the nomen was based on Hemprich’s hand-written notes where he also detailed that the series of specimens that includes the
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originated from “Tscheile” (=el Achterieh, now Al Dukhaylach
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according to Bauer
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<emphasis id="B92C694AFFA99D5FFD68CC95FCEFFE5A" box="[729,787,440,464]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="367">et al.</emphasis>
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2003) or Abusiris (an archeological site located close to Burg El Arab
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). Thus, one of these two localities currently constitutes the
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locality.
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<emphasis id="B92C694AFFA99D5FFF26CA82FEF0F84E" bold="true" box="[151,268,1966,1989]" pageId="2" pageNumber="367">FIGURE 1</emphasis>
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. Lectotype (ZMB 437A) of
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<emphasis id="B92C694AFFA99D5FFD9DCA83FCBFF84F" box="[556,835,1967,1989]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="367">Ascalabotes sthenodactylus</emphasis>
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Lichtenstein, 1823
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, photos F. Tillack.
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<paragraph id="8BE7B558FFA89D5EFF76CDB4FDE9FE26" blockId="3.[151,1436,151,1148]" pageId="3" pageNumber="368">
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Upon examination of pictures of the specimen ZMB 437A, kindly sent to us by M.-
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. Rödel (
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<figureCitation id="1363A9DDFFA89D5EFAFDCDBBFA69FF25" box="[1356,1429,151,175]" captionStart="FIGURE 1" captionStartId="2.[151,250,1966,1989]" captionTargetBox="[151,1436,553,1943]" captionTargetId="figure@2.[151,1436,553,1945]" captionTargetPageId="2" captionText="FIGURE 1. Lectotype (ZMB 437 A) of Ascalabotes sthenodactylus Lichtenstein, 1823, photos F. Tillack." httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/222295/files/figure.png" pageId="3" pageNumber="368">Fig. 1</figureCitation>
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, photographs by F. Tillack), we realized that it presents traits characteristic of the species now called
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<taxonomicName id="4C58CEDBFFA89D5EFAB0CD90FE0DFF7D" authority="Guichenot, 1850" authorityName="Guichenot" authorityYear="1850" class="Reptilia" family="Gekkonidae" genus="Stenodactylus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Squamata" pageId="3" pageNumber="368" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="mauritanicus">
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<emphasis id="B92C694AFFA89D5EFAB0CD90FED7FF72" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="368">Stenodactylus mauritanicus</emphasis>
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Guichenot, 1850
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</taxonomicName>
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: the snout profile is strongly convex and the nostrils do not project much (see Baha El Din 2006, which fully agrees with our own examination of a large series of specimens from North Africa, many of which genotyped by Metallinou
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<emphasis id="B92C694AFFA89D5EFD80CC05FD91FECA" box="[561,621,296,320]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="368">et al.</emphasis>
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2012). In addition, the localities where the
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could have been collected are both found in the mesic coastal Mediterranean areas west of the Nile delta, where, according to Baha el Din (2006) and Metallinou
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<emphasis id="B92C694AFFA89D5EFE5ACC5DFDD8FE02" box="[491,548,368,392]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="368">et al.</emphasis>
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(2012), only
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<emphasis id="B92C694AFFA89D5EFD0ECC5CFC8CFE02" box="[703,880,368,392]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="368">S. mauritanicus</emphasis>
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</taxonomicName>
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occurs nowadays,
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<taxonomicName id="4C58CEDBFFA89D5EFBF6CC5CFAF6FE02" box="[1095,1290,368,392]" class="Squamata" family="Gekkonidae" genus="Ascalabotes" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" pageId="3" pageNumber="368" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="sthenodactylus">
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<emphasis id="B92C694AFFA89D5EFBF6CC5CFAF6FE02" box="[1095,1290,368,392]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="368">S. sthenodactylus</emphasis>
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</taxonomicName>
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occurring in more xeric habitats further inland.
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</paragraph>
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<paragraph id="8BE7B558FFA89D5EFF76CC94FADAFCBD" blockId="3.[151,1436,151,1148]" pageId="3" pageNumber="368">
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It is therefore clear that the
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<typeStatus id="54E30BFAFFA89D5EFDA0CC9BFD8BFE45" box="[529,631,439,463]" pageId="3" pageNumber="368" type="lectotype">lectotype</typeStatus>
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of
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||
<taxonomicName id="4C58CEDBFFA89D5EFD12CC94FC27FE5A" box="[675,987,440,464]" class="Squamata" family="Gekkonidae" genus="Ascalabotes" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" pageId="3" pageNumber="368" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="sthenodactylus">
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<emphasis id="B92C694AFFA89D5EFD12CC94FC27FE5A" box="[675,987,440,464]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="368">Ascalabotes sthenodactylus</emphasis>
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||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
is a specimen of the species currently known as
|
||
<taxonomicName id="4C58CEDBFFA89D5EFEBBCCF0FDBCFE7E" box="[266,576,476,500]" class="Reptilia" family="Gekkonidae" genus="Stenodactylus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Squamata" pageId="3" pageNumber="368" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="mauritanicus">
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||
<emphasis id="B92C694AFFA89D5EFEBBCCF0FDBCFE7E" box="[266,576,476,500]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="368">Stenodactylus mauritanicus</emphasis>
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</taxonomicName>
|
||
, in obvious contradiction to the prevailing usage of these names. According to the Code Article 75.6, an author who discovers that “the existing name-bearing
|
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<typeStatus id="54E30BFAFFA89D5EFB85CF2CFB98FD92" box="[1076,1124,512,536]" pageId="3" pageNumber="368">type</typeStatus>
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of a nominal species-group taxon is not in taxonomic accord with the prevailing usage of names” should maintain prevailing usage and request the Commission to set aside the existing name-bearing
|
||
<typeStatus id="54E30BFAFFA89D5EFD4FCF64FCD2FDEA" box="[766,814,584,608]" pageId="3" pageNumber="368">type</typeStatus>
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and designate a
|
||
<typeStatus id="54E30BFAFFA89D5EFC56CF64FBBFFDEA" box="[999,1091,584,608]" pageId="3" pageNumber="368" type="neotype">neotype</typeStatus>
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. Prevailing usage is defined by the Code as “that usage of the name which is adopted by at least a substantial majority of the most recent authors concerned with the relevant taxon, irrespective of how long ago their work was published”. All authors that have used both names as valid (usually as distinct subspecies of the same species) applied
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||
<taxonomicName id="4C58CEDBFFA89D5EFBC1CF99FAF8FD46" box="[1136,1284,693,716]" class="Reptilia" family="Gekkonidae" genus="Stenodactylus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Squamata" pageId="3" pageNumber="368" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="mauritanicus">
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||
<emphasis id="B92C694AFFA89D5EFBC1CF99FAF8FD46" box="[1136,1284,693,716]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="368">mauritanicus</emphasis>
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||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
to the northwestern taxon and
|
||
<taxonomicName id="4C58CEDBFFA89D5EFEDBCFF4FDEDFD7A" box="[362,529,728,752]" class="Squamata" family="Gekkonidae" genus="Ascalabotes" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" pageId="3" pageNumber="368" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="sthenodactylus">
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||
<emphasis id="B92C694AFFA89D5EFEDBCFF4FDEDFD7A" box="[362,529,728,752]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="368">sthenodactylus</emphasis>
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</taxonomicName>
|
||
to the southern and eastern taxon: see for ex. Baha El Din 2006; Bons & Geniez 1996; Leviton 1992; Loveridge 1947; Pasteur 1960; Sindaco 2008. Metallinou
|
||
<emphasis id="B92C694AFFA89D5EFB96CFD1FB9EFC9E" box="[1063,1122,764,788]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="368">et al.</emphasis>
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||
(2012) provide an updated insight into the distribution patterns of the two species, through a large collection of genotyped samples.
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||
</paragraph>
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||
<paragraph id="8BE7B558FFA89D5EFF76CE69FD9AFC4D" blockId="3.[151,1436,151,1148]" pageId="3" pageNumber="368">
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We thus propose to maintain
|
||
<taxonomicName id="4C58CEDBFFA89D5EFDBCCE68FBE5FCD6" authority="Lichtenstein, 1823" authorityName="Lichtenstein" authorityYear="1823" box="[525,1049,836,860]" class="Squamata" family="Gekkonidae" genus="Ascalabotes" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" pageId="3" pageNumber="368" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="sthenodactylus">
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||
<emphasis id="B92C694AFFA89D5EFDBCCE68FCBDFCD6" box="[525,833,836,860]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="368">Ascalabotes sthenodactylus</emphasis>
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||
<collectingCountry id="F34FF5C8FFA89D5EFCF8CE68FC2BFCD6" box="[841,983,836,860]" name="Liechtenstein" pageId="3" pageNumber="368">Lichtenstein</collectingCountry>
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||
, 1823
|
||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
as the valid nomen of the taxon to which it has been applied until now and will apply to the Commission in due course to designate as
|
||
<typeStatus id="54E30BFAFFA89D5EFA93CE45FA87FC0B" box="[1314,1403,873,897]" pageId="3" pageNumber="368" type="neotype">neotype</typeStatus>
|
||
of
|
||
<taxonomicName id="4C58CEDBFFA89D5EFF26CEA0FD4CFC2E" authority="Lichtenstein, 1823" authorityName="Lichtenstein" authorityYear="1823" box="[151,688,908,932]" class="Squamata" family="Gekkonidae" genus="Ascalabotes" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" pageId="3" pageNumber="368" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="sthenodactylus">
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||
<emphasis id="B92C694AFFA89D5EFF26CEA0FE33FC2E" box="[151,463,908,932]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="368">Ascalabotes sthenodactylus</emphasis>
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||
<collectingCountry id="F34FF5C8FFA89D5EFE6DCEA0FD95FC2E" box="[476,617,908,932]" name="Liechtenstein" pageId="3" pageNumber="368">Lichtenstein</collectingCountry>
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||
, 1823
|
||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
a specimen of the eastern taxon for which this name has been used—to our knowledge—by all authors.
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph id="8BE7B558FFA89D5EFF76CEFFFECBFBD3" blockId="3.[151,1436,151,1148]" pageId="3" pageNumber="368">
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||
<emphasis id="B92C694AFFA89D5EFF76CEFFFE46FC66" bold="true" box="[199,442,979,1004]" pageId="3" pageNumber="368">
|
||
Name-bearing
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||
<typeStatus id="54E30BFAFFA89D5EFECFCEF8FE49FC66" box="[382,437,980,1004]" pageId="3" pageNumber="368">type</typeStatus>
|
||
:
|
||
</emphasis>
|
||
currently Museum für Naturkunde, Berlin, ZMB 437A,
|
||
<typeStatus id="54E30BFAFFA89D5EFBECCEF8FB3FFC66" box="[1117,1219,980,1004]" pageId="3" pageNumber="368" type="lectotype">lectotype</typeStatus>
|
||
by designation of Bauer and Günther (1991), pending decision of the International Commission of Zoological Nomenclature.
|
||
<emphasis id="B92C694AFFA89D5EFAD0CED4FF0BFBBE" bold="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="368">
|
||
<typeStatus id="54E30BFAFFA89D5EFAD0CED4FA66FB9A" box="[1377,1434,1016,1040]" pageId="3" pageNumber="368">Type</typeStatus>
|
||
locality:
|
||
</emphasis>
|
||
currently either Al Dukhaylach (
|
||
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<geoCoordinate id="EE6CD39FFFA89D5EFD6FC930FCB9FBBE" box="[734,837,1052,1076]" direction="east" orientation="longitude" pageId="3" pageNumber="368" precision="925" value="29.816668">29° 49’E</geoCoordinate>
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||
) or Abusiris near Burg El Arab (
|
||
<geoCoordinate id="EE6CD39FFFA89D5EFB72C930FAD9FBBE" box="[1219,1317,1052,1076]" direction="north" orientation="latitude" pageId="3" pageNumber="368" precision="925" value="30.916666">30°55’N</geoCoordinate>
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||
<geoCoordinate id="EE6CD39FFFA89D5EFA9FC930FA73FBBE" box="[1326,1423,1052,1076]" direction="east" orientation="longitude" pageId="3" pageNumber="368" precision="925" value="29.533333">29°32’E</geoCoordinate>
|
||
), both in
|
||
<collectingCountry id="F34FF5C8FFA89D5EFF5DC96DFECFFBD3" box="[236,307,1089,1113]" name="Egypt" pageId="3" pageNumber="368">Egypt</collectingCountry>
|
||
.
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
</subSubSection>
|
||
<subSubSection id="C342E6D3FFA89D5EFF76C948FC31FBF6" box="[199,973,1124,1148]" pageId="3" pageNumber="368" type="description">
|
||
<paragraph id="8BE7B558FFA89D5EFF76C948FC31FBF6" blockId="3.[151,1436,151,1148]" box="[199,973,1124,1148]" pageId="3" pageNumber="368">
|
||
<emphasis id="B92C694AFFA89D5EFF76C948FE71FBF6" bold="true" box="[199,397,1124,1148]" pageId="3" pageNumber="368">Proposed status:</emphasis>
|
||
<taxonomicName id="4C58CEDBFFA89D5EFE25C948FC34FBF6" authority="Lichtenstein, 1823" authorityName="Lichtenstein" authorityYear="1823" box="[404,968,1124,1148]" class="Reptilia" family="Gekkonidae" genus="Stenodactylus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Squamata" pageId="3" pageNumber="368" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="sthenodactylus">
|
||
<emphasis id="B92C694AFFA89D5EFE25C948FD27FBF6" box="[404,731,1124,1148]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="368">Stenodactylus sthenodactylus</emphasis>
|
||
(
|
||
<collectingCountry id="F34FF5C8FFA89D5EFD5BC948FC85FBF6" box="[746,889,1124,1148]" name="Liechtenstein" pageId="3" pageNumber="368">Lichtenstein</collectingCountry>
|
||
, 1823)
|
||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
.
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
</subSubSection>
|
||
</treatment>
|
||
</document> |