Gekko guishanicus LIN & YAO, 2016

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Higher Taxa	Gekkonidae, Gekkota, Sauria, Squamata (lizards: geckos)
Subspecies
Common Names
Synonym	Gekko guishanicus LIN & YAO 2016 Gekko (Japonigekko) guishanicus — WOOD et al. 2019 Gekko (Japonigekko) guishanicus — WOOD et al. 2020
Distribution	Taiwan (Guishan Isle) Type locality: Guishan Isle, Toucheng Township, Yilan County, northeast Taiwan.
Reproduction	oviparous
Types	Holotype: TMRL (also as NTM) 0461 (originally given as TMRL) (National Taiwan Museum), (Figure 4 & 5 in Lin & Yao 2016), adult male; Paratypes: National Taiwan Museum TMRL 0473 and 0474, adult males both on 10 Aug. 1998; TMRL 0441 and 0450, adult females on 27 May 1997 and 10 Nov. 1997, all paratypes are collected at same locality as holotype, by Jun-Tsong Lin.
Diagnosis	Diagnosis: A small species of Gekko, Habitus slightly depressed, Digits long, relatively narrow; nostril in contact with rostral scale; internasal scale between two nasorostral scales and contact with rostral scale; ear opening oblique, oval; postmentals two, enlarged, each side have 2-4 submental scales, 2-3 larynx scales in behind the postmentals and about 2/3-1/3 to postmental; finger and toe webbing weakly developed; Lamella single row, subdigital lamellae on first toe 8-10 (Figure 9); precloacal pores six to eight in males, absent in females (Figure 10); enlarge tubercle lacking on dorsal surfaces of body and limbs (Figure 11 & 12); postcloacal tubercle single and present on both side surface of tail base; SVL 54-64 (mean x = 59.7) in adults, paratype of males are 60 and 64, paratype of females are 64 and 60mm (Table 4); HL 12.80-16.45 (x = 14.65); HW 9.90-12.80 (x = 11.31); SE 5.20-7.80 (x = 6.46); OD 3.25-4.90 (x = 3.88); EE 4.15-5.34 (x = 4.67). Dorsum with six thin, wide dark bands between nape and sacrum; tail with six or more dark bands (Figure 4). Different between G. hokouensis and G. guishanicus (Table 3).
Comment	Similar species: Gekko hokouensis Abundance: only known from its original description (Meiri et al. 2017).
Etymology	Named after the type locality.
References	Lin, Jun-Tsong and Chiou-Ju Yao 2016. A New Species of the Genus Gekko (Squamata: Sauria: Gekkonidae) from Guishan Isle, Yilan County, Taiwan. [in Chinese and English] 國立臺灣博物館學刊 69 (2): 1-14 - get paper here Meiri, Shai; Aaron M. Bauer, Allen Allison, Fernando Castro-Herrera, Laurent Chirio, Guarino Colli, Indraneil Das, Tiffany M. Doan, Frank Glaw, Lee L. Grismer, Marinus Hoogmoed, Fred Kraus, Matthew LeBreton, Danny Meirte, Zoltán T. Nagy, Cristiano d 2017. Extinct, obscure or imaginary: the lizard species with the smallest ranges. Diversity and Distributions - get paper here Wood Jr, Perry L.; Xianguang Guo, Scott L. Travers, Yong-Chao Su, Karen V. Olson, Aaron M. Bauer, L. Lee Grismer, Cameron D. Siler, Robert G. Moyle, Michael J. Andersen, Rafe M. Brown 2019. Parachute geckos free fall into synonymy: Gekko phylogeny, and a new subgeneric classification, inferred from thousands of ultraconserved elements. bioRxiv 717520 [preprint] - get paper here Wood, P. L., Guo, X., Travers, S. L., Su, Y. C., Olson, K. V., Bauer, A. M., Grismer, L. L., Siler, C. D., Moyle, R. G., Andersen, M. J. and Brown, R. M. 2020. Parachute geckos free fall into synonymy: Gekko phylogeny, and a new subgeneric classification, inferred from thousands of ultraconserved elements. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 146: 106731 [corrigendum: MPE 164: 107255] - get paper here
External links	IUCN Red List Google images

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