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Issue: Vol. 4136 No. 3: 7 Jul. 2016
Type: Article
Published: 2016-07-07
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4136.3.6
Page range: 537–552
Abstract views: 161
PDF downloaded: 8

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)

Doc Frog Expeditions, Uvita, Costa Rica.
Departamento de Zoología, Universidad de Concepción, Chile.
Reptilia Gekkota taxonomy type series Venezuela Museum Roberto Donoso-Barros collection

Abstract

Herein we catalogue all geckos (Gekkonidae, Phyllodactylidae and Sphaerodactylidae) collected by Roberto Donoso-Barros in Venezuela between 1963 and 1964, deposited in the Universidad de Concepción in Chile. Donoso-Barros did not provide detailed descriptions of two species of Gonatodes named by him, despite both being valid species. We take the opportunity to do so and the type series of Gonatodes ligiae and G. petersi are described for the first time. We also present images in life of all species collected by Donoso-Barros in Venezuela.

 

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