Garthia gaudichaudii (DUMÉRIL & BIBRON, 1836)
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Garthia gaudichaudii
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| Higher Taxa | Phyllodactylidae, Gekkota, Sauria, Squamata (lizards: geckos) |
| Subspecies | Garthia gaudichaudii gaudichaudii DUMÉRIL & BIBRON 1836 Garthia gaudichaudii dorbignii (DUMÉRIL & BIBRON 1836) Garthia gaudichaudii klugei DONOSO-BARROS 1970 |
| Common Names | E: Chilean Marked Gecko E: Coquimbo Marked Gecko [penai] |
| Synonym | Gymnodactylus gaudichaudii DUMÉRIL & BIBRON 1836: 413 Saurodactylus gaudichaudii — FITZINGER 1843: 91 (fide BRYGOO 1991) Homonota guidichaudi — GRAY 1845: 150 (in error) Gonatodes gaudichaudii — BOULENGER 1885: 63 Gonatodes gaudichaudii — WERNER 1898: 247 Homonota gaudichaudii — KLUGE 1964: 31 Garthia gaudichaudii — DONOSO-BARROS & VANZOLINI 1965: 6 Homonota gaudichaudii penai DONOSO-BARROS & VANZOLINI 1965 (n. nud.) Garthia peñai DONOSO-BARROS 1966: 125 Garthia penai — PETERS & DONOSO-BARROS 1970: 124 Homonota penai — KLUGE 1993 Homonota darwinii — KLUGE 1993 Garthia penai — ABDALA & MORO 1996: 61 Garthia penai — ABDALA 1998 Garthia gaudichaudii — ABDALA 1998 Garthia gaudichaudii — RÖSLER 2000: 79 Garthia penai — RÖSLER 2000: 79 Garthia gaudichaudii — NÚÑEZ & VELOSO 2001 Garthia penai — MORANDO et al. 2014 Garthia gaudichaudii — MORANDO et al. 2014 Garthia gaudichaudii dorbignii (DUMÉRIL & BIBRON 1836) Gymnodactylus dorbignii DUMÉRIL & BIBRON 1836: 418 Gymnodactylus dorbignyi — BOULENGER 1885: 33 (nom. subst.) Homonota dorbignii — KLUGE 1964: 20 Gymnodactylus (Gymnodactylus) dorbignii — WERMUTH 1965: 51 Homonota dorbignii — WERMUTH 1965 Garthia gaudichaudii dorbingvi [sic] — DONOSO-BARROS & VANZOLINI 1965 Garthia dorbignyi — DONOSO-BARROS 1966: 122 (nom. subst.) Garthia gaudichaudii dorbignii — DONOSO-BARROS 1970 Homonota gaudichaudii dorbignii — WELCH 1994 Homonota gaudichaudii dorbignii — KLUGE 1993 Garthia gaudichaudii dorbignii — RÖSLER 2000: 79 Homonota dorbignyi — LANGSTROTH 2005 Garthia dorbignii — RÖSLER 2017 Garthia gaudichaudii dorbignii — DE LISLE et al. 2018 Garthia gaudichaudii klugei DONOSO-BARROS 1970 Garthia gaudichaudii klugei DONOSO-BARROS 1970: 83 Homonota gaudichaudi klugei — KLUGE 1991: 17 Garthia gaudichaudii klugei — RÖSLER 2000: 79 Garthia gaudichaudii klugei — DE LISLE et al. 2018 |
| Distribution | Argentina (Buenos Aires), SC Bolivia, Chile (Chuquisaca, west coast) klugei: Chile (Pichidangui region) dorbignii: SC Bolivia (Chuquisaca), C/N Chile; Type locality: Provincia de la Laguna and Valparaiso, Chile (corrected and restricted by DUMÉRIL 1851: 44 to area along Río Grande, at Pampa Ruiz, between Valé Grande and Pescado, Dep. Chuquisaca, Bolivia) penai (invalid): Chile (Coquimbo); Type locality: Los Molles, Combabarlá, Prov. de Coquimbo, Chile, elevation 1500 m. |
| Reproduction | oviparous |
| Types | Holotype: MNHN-RA 2327 Lectotype: MNHN-RA 6755; paralectotypes: MNHN-RA 2330, MNHN-RA 2330A-B [dorbignii] Holotype: MNHNC (?), male [klugei] Holotype: MNHNC 757 (fide De Lisle et al. 2013); also given as IZUA although not given in original description (IZUA = Inst. Zool. Univ. Chile) [penai] |
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| Comment | Distribution: Not in Argentina fide AVILA et al. 2010, Avila et al. 2013; not in Uruguay (Daniel Pincheira-Donoso, pers. comm., 19 Feb 2013). Synonymy: Mella-Ávila 2023 suggest that there is only one species within the genus: G. gaudichaudii, which shows morphological variation, with three morphs, where the “penai” morph would be very rare. However, he also says that this needs to be confirmed with a molecular and morphometric analysis. Núñez and Jaksic (1992) stated that "there are no characters that allow for clear distinctions that justify the use of subspecies" [in gaudichaudii], recognizing G. gaudichaudii as the only valid taxon, a criterion accepted by Pincheira-Donoso (2007) and Mella (2017). Mella (2023) also found that only seven of the 142 photographic records match the "penai" morph, which is distributed punctually and randomly in six localities between the Coquimbo and Valparaíso regions. Type species: Gymnodactylus gaudichaudii DUMÉRIL & BIBRON 1836: 413 is the type species of the genus Garthia DONOSO-BARROS & VANZOLINI in DONOSO-BARROS 1965: 1. Characteristics: Homonota lizards lack the femoral pores typical of other South American Phyllodactylidae, and their infradigital lamellas are not expanded. Reference images: see Uetz et al. 2024 for high-resolution reference images for this species. RDB speciesID: 14111 [penai] Etymology: G. penai was named after Dr. Luis E. Pena (d. 1995), an entomologist and a lepidopterist who collected zoological specimens (1950s-1960s) in Chile for the American Museum of Natural History. |
| Etymology | Named after Charles Gaudichaud-Beaupré (1789 – 1854), a French botanist who traveled to South America and Australia. G. g. dorbignii was named after Alcide Charles Victor Marie Dessalines d'Orbigny (1802 – 1857), a French naturalist. G. g. klugei was named after Arnold G. Kluge, American herpetologist. The genus Garthia was named after Garth Leon Underwood (1919-2002), British herpetologist (obituary in Copeia 2003: 222-225). |
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