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Gekko athymus BROWN & ALCALA, 1962

IUCN Red List - Gekko athymus - Near Threatened, NT
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Higher TaxaGekkonidae, Gekkota, Sauria, Squamata (lizards: geckos)
Subspecies 
Common NamesE: Brown's Gecko 
SynonymGekko athymus BROWN & ALCALA 1962: 67
Gekko athymus — KLUGE 1993
Gekko athymus — RÖSLER 2000: 81
Gekko (Archipelagekko) athymus — WOOD et al. 2019
Gekko (Archipelagekko) athymus — WOOD et al. 2020 
DistributionPhilippines (Palawan)

Type locality: dipterocarp forest about 8 to 9 km south of Balico, Palawan Island, near north end of Village Range, elevation about 75 m.  
Reproductionoviparous 
TypesHolotype: CAS-SUR 23119, male, paratypes: CAS-SUR, a female and a juvenile 
DiagnosisDiagnosis: “A Gekko covered dorsally by small, relatively uniform granules, without enlarged tubercles of any kind; nostril in contact with rostral; toes about one-third webbed except between the first and second toes of the hind foot where the web is lacking; preanal pores in a moderately long series, narrowly separated from the short series of femoral pores; toes moderately dilated throughout their length; 19 to 20 lamellae beneath the fourth toe of the hind foot.” (Brown & Alcala 1962)


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Comment 
EtymologyUnclear, not explained by Brown & Alcala 1962. Possibly from Greek thymos = life energy, soul, temper, for the apparent lack of energy although the authors do not comment on behavior. 
References
  • Brown, R.M.; Oliveros, C.; Siler, C.D. & Diesmos, A.C. 2009. Phylogeny of Gekko from the Northern Philippines, and Description of a New Species from Calayan Island. Journal of Herpetology 43 (4): 620–635 - get paper here
  • Brown, Rafe M.; Cameron D. Siler, Carl H. Oliveros, Arvin C. Diesmos, and Angel C. Alcala 2011. A New Gekko from Sibuyan Island, Central Philippines. Herpetologica 67 (4): 460-476. - get paper here
  • Brown, Rafe M.; Carl H. Oliveros, Cameron D. Siler, and Arvin C. Diesmos 2008. A New Gekko from the Babuyan Islands, Northern Philippines. Herpetologica 64 (3): 305-320 - get paper here
  • Brown, W. C., and A. C. Alcala. 1962. A new lizard of the genus Gekko from the Philippine Islands. Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington 75:67-70 - get paper here
  • Linkem, C.W.; Siler, D.D.; Diesmos, A.C.; Sy, E., Brown, R.M. 2010. A new species of Gekko (Squamata: Gekkonidae) from central Luzon Island, Philippines. Zootaxa 2396: 37–49 - get paper here
  • Rafe M. Brown, Cameron D. Siler, Indraneil Das, Yong Min 2012. Testing the phylogenetic affinities of Southeast Asia’s rarest geckos: Flap-legged geckos (Luperosaurus), Flying geckos (Ptychozoon) and their relationship to the pan-Asian genus Gekko. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 63: 915-921 - get paper here
  • Rösler, H. 2000. Kommentierte Liste der rezent, subrezent und fossil bekannten Geckotaxa (Reptilia: Gekkonomorpha). Gekkota 2: 28-153
  • Supsup CE, Asis AA, Carestia Jr UV, Diesmos AC, Mallari NAD, Brown RM 2020. Variation in species richness, composition and herpetological community structure across a tropical habitat gradient of Palawan Island, Philippines. Herpetozoa 33: 95-111 - 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
  • YANG, JIAN-HUAN; YING-YONG WANG, TIAN-DU ZHANG, YAN-JUN SUN & SHI-SHI LIN 2012. Genetic and morphological evidence on the species validity of Gekko melli Vogt, 1922, with notes on its diagnosis and range extension (Squamata: Gekkonidae). Zootaxa 3505: 67–74 - get paper here
 
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