Gonatodes seigliei DONOSO-BARROS, 1966

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Higher Taxa	Sphaerodactylidae, Gekkota, Sauria, Squamata (lizards: geckos)
Subspecies
Common Names	E: Estados Sucre Gecko
Synonym	Gonatodes seigliei DONOSO-BARROS 1966: 11 Gonatodes seigliei — RÖSLER 2000: 84 Gonatodes seigliei — BARRIO-AMORÓS & ORTÍZ 2016: 550
Distribution	Venezuela (Sucré, Monagas) Type locality: Bosque de Miraflores, Puertas del Guarapichea, a los límites del estados Sucré y Monagas, Venezuela
Reproduction	oviparous
Types	Holotype: MZUC 12038 (Museo Zoologico, Concepción, Chile, was ”Macho 646081”), col. Donoso-Barros
Diagnosis	Diagnosis: “Un gecko pequeño, caracterizado por rostral y labiales granulosas, con vermiculaciones negras sobre el dorso y presencia de un par de ocelos pequejíos dispuestos muy anteriormente.”
Comment	Behavior: mainly diurnal
Etymology	Named after Dr. George Alfredo Seiglie (1926-1988), a Cuban who went to live in Venezuela (1960) rather than remain under Castro's regime.
References	Barrio-Amorós, C.L. 2010. GONATODES - Los Geckos diurnos de Venezuela. RioVerde 2010; 43-50 BARRIO-AMORÓS, CESAR L. & JUAN C. ORTÍZ 2016. 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). Zootaxa 4136 (3): 537–552 - get paper here Beolens, Bo; Michael Watkins, and Michael Grayson 2011. The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, USA - get paper here Donoso-Barros, R. 1966. Dos nuevos Gonatodes de Venezuela. Publ. Ocas. Mus. Hist. Nat., Santiago de Chile, 11: 1-32 RIVAS, GILSON A.; CÉSAR R. MOLINA, GABRIEL N. UGUETO, TITO R. BARROS, CÉSAR L. BAR- RIO-AMORÓS & PHILIPPE J. R. KOK 2012. Reptiles of Venezuela: an updated and commented checklist. Zootaxa 3211: 1–64 - get paper here Rösler, H. 2000. Kommentierte Liste der rezent, subrezent und fossil bekannten Geckotaxa (Reptilia: Gekkonomorpha). Gekkota 2: 28-153
External links	IUCN Red List National Center for Biotechnology Information Google images

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