Hemidactylus ituriensis SCHMIDT, 1919

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Higher Taxa	Gekkonidae, Gekkota, Sauria, Squamata (lizards: geckos)
Subspecies
Common Names	E: Ituri Leaf-toed Gecko
Synonym	Hemidactylus ituriensis SCHMIDT 1919: 455 Hemidactylus ituriensis — LOVERIDGE 1936: 50 Hemidactylus fasciatus ituriensis — LOVERIDGE 1947 Hemidactylus fasciatus ituriensis — WERMUTH 1965: 74 Hemidactylus fasciatus ituriensis — RÖSLER 2000: 85 Hemidactylus ituriensis — WAGNER et al. 2014
Distribution	NE Democratic Republic of the Congo (Zaire) Type locality: “Avakubi,” Democratic Republic of the Congo.
Reproduction	oviparous (not imputed, fide Zimin et al. 2022)
Types	Holotype: AMNH 10272; AMNH 10273 now in RMCA
Diagnosis
Comment	Distribution: only known from northeastern parts of the DR Congo. Wagner (2010) suggests a wider distribution along the Albertine Rift and probably eastwards to Uganda and probably Kenya, similar to the distribution pattern of forest species in this area (Wagner et al. 2008, 2009, Wagner et al. 2014). Relationships. So far genetic information of this taxon are lacking, but we expect, due to morphological characters and the distribution pattern, a close, probably sister taxon, relationship to the clade including H. eniangii sp. n., H. coalescens sp. n., and H. biokoensis sp. n. (Wagner et al. 2014).
References	Badjedjea, G., Akuboy, J. B., Colyn, M., & Pauwels, O. S. 2023. Reptile Fauna of Kungulu and Mbiye Islands, Upper Congo River: Current Knowledge and New Records. Bulletin of the Chicago Herpetological Society, 58(1), 1-11 - get paper here Loveridge, A. 1936. African reptiles and amphibians in the Field Museum of Natural History. Zool. Ser. Field Mus. Nat. Hist., Chicago, 22 (1): 1-122 - 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 Rösler, H. 2000. Kommentierte Liste der rezent, subrezent und fossil bekannten Geckotaxa (Reptilia: Gekkonomorpha). Gekkota 2: 28-153 Rösler, Herbert 2015. Bemerkungen über einige Geckos der Zoologischen Staatssammlung München. Gekkota, Suppl. (2): 3-54 Schmidt, Karl Patterson 1919. Contributions to the Herpetology of the Belgian Congo based on the Collection of the American Congo Expedition, 1909-1915. Part I: turtles, crocodiles, lizards, and chamaeleons. Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist. 39 (2): 385-624 - get paper here Wagner, P., Leaché, A. & Fujita, M.K. 2014. Description of four new West African forest geckos of the Hemidactylus fasciatus Gray, 1842 complex, revealed by coalescent species delimitation. Bonn zoological Bulletin 63 (1): 1–14 - get paper here Wagner, Philipp; Jörn Köhler; Andreas Schmitz; Wolfgang Böhme 2008. The biogeographical assignment of a west Kenyan rain forest remnant: further evidence from analysis of its reptile fauna. Journal of Biogeography 35: 1349–1361 - get paper here Wagner, Philipp; Wolfgang Böhme; Olivier S. G. Pauwels & Andreas Schmitz 2009. A review of the African red-flanked skinks of the Lygosoma fernandi (BURTON, 1836) species group (Squamata: Scincidae) and the role of climate change in their speciation. Zootaxa 2050: 1-30 - get paper here Wermuth, H. 1965. Liste der rezenten Amphibien und Reptilien. Gekkonidae, Pygopodidae, Xantusiidae. Das Tierreich (80): 1—246 Zimin, A., Zimin, S. V., Shine, R., Avila, L., Bauer, A., Böhm, M., Brown, R., Barki, G., de Oliveira Caetano, G. H., Castro Herrera, F., Chapple, D. G., Chirio, L., Colli, G. R., Doan, T. M., Glaw, F., Grismer, L. L., Itescu, Y., Kraus, F., LeBreton 2022. A global analysis of viviparity in squamates highlights its prevalence in cold climates. Global Ecology and Biogeography, 00, 1–16 - get paper here
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