Ptyodactylus togoensis TORNIER, 1901

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Higher Taxa	Phyllodactylidae, Gekkota, Sauria, Squamata (lizards: geckos)
Subspecies
Common Names	E: Togo Fan-footed gecko
Synonym	Ptyodactylus hasselquistii var. togoensis TORNIER 1901: 68 Ptyodactylus hasselquistii togoensis — LOVERIDGE 1947: 283 Ptyodactylus togoensis — METALLINOU et al. 2015 Ptyodactylus togoensis — BAUER et al. 2017: 200 Ptyodactylus togoensis — TRAPE 2017
Distribution	Mauritania, Mali, Niger through S Algeria, SW Libya, N Chad; Burkina Faso to Togo and Nigeria, N Cameroon (fide Bauer et al. 2017) Type locality: “Mangu” [= Mango, formerly Sansanné-Mango,Togo].
Reproduction	oviparous
Types	Syntypes: ZMB 16312, 16622
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Comment	Synonymy: has been synonymized with P. ragazzi by Heimes 1987 but revalidated again by Metallinou et al. 2015. Karyotype: Chrostek et al. 2023. Distribution: See map in METALLINOU et al. 2015: 210 (Fig. 1).
Etymology	Named after the type locality.
References	Bauer, Aaron M.; Jonathan C. DeBoer , Dylan J. Taylor 2017. Atlas of the Reptiles of Libya. Proc. Cal. Acad. Sci. 64 (8): 155-318 - get paper here Chrostek G, Domaradzka A, Yurchenko A, Kratochvíl L, Mazzoleni S, Rovatsos M 2023. Cytogenetic Analysis of Seven Species of Gekkonid and Phyllodactylid Geckos. Genes 14 (1): 178 - get paper here Heimes, P. 1987. Beitrag zur Systematik der Fächerfinger (Sauria: Gekkonidae: Ptyodactylus). Salamandra 23 (4): 212-235 - get paper here Loveridge, A. 1947. Revision of the African lizards of the family Gekkondiae. Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool. Harvard 98: 1-469 - get paper here Metallinou, Margarita; Jan Cervenka, Pierre-Andre Crochet, Lukas Kratochvil, Thomas Wilms, Philippe Geniez, Mohammed Y. Shobrak, Jose C. Brito, Salvador Carranza 2015. Species on the rocks: Systematics and biogeography of the rock-dwelling Ptyodactylus geckos (Squamata: Phyllodactylidae) in North Africa and Arabia. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 85: 208-220 - get paper here Tornier,G. 1901. Die Crocodile, Schildkröten und Eidechsen in Togo. Archiv für Naturgeschichte 1901, Beiheft: 65-88 - get paper here TRAPE, Jean-François 2017. Une nouvelle espèce de gecko palmé du genre Ptyodactylus Goldfuss, 1820 (Sauria, Ptyodactilidae) de Mauritanie. Bull. Soc. Herp. France 163: 53-66
External links	National Center for Biotechnology Information Google images

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