| Higher Taxa | Sphaerodactylidae, Gekkota, Sauria, Squamata (lizards: geckos) |
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| Common Names | E: Peters' Gecko |
| Synonym | Gonatodes petersi DONOSO-BARROS 1967
Gonatodes petersi — RÖSLER 2000: 84
Gonatodes petersi — ROJAS-RUNJAIC & INFANTE-RIVERO 2009 |
| Distribution | Venezuela (Sierra de Perijá, Estado Zulia)
Type locality: Sierra de Perijá, estado Zulia, Venezuela; restricted to 10 km al este de la misión El Tokuko, Sierra de Perijá, Estado Zulia, Venezuela by Rivero-Blanco (1979). See also Rojas-Runjaic & Rivero 2009.
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| Reproduction | oviparous |
| Types | Holotype: MZUC 8836 (Museo Zoologico, Concepción, Chile), adult male; paratypes: same (but collection numbers in original descriptions are “macho V276, ... hembra V277”. |
| Diagnosis | Diagnosis: in Rojas-Runjaic & Infante Rivero 2009 (in Spanish). |
| Comment | Behavior: mainly diurnal |
| Etymology | Named after James A. Peters (1922-1972), American herpetologist, specializing on South American reptiles. |
| References |
- Barrio-Amorós, C.L. 2010. GONATODES - Los Geckos diurnos de Venezuela. RioVerde 2010; 43-50
- BARRIO-AMORÓS, CESAR L. & JUAN C. ORTÍZ 2016. Venezuelan geckos (Gekkonidae, Phyllodactylidae, Sphaerodactylidae) in the collection of the Universidad de Concepción in Chile, with description of the type series of Gonatodes ligiae and Gonatodes petersi (Sphaerodactylidae). Zootaxa 4136 (3): 537–552 - get paper here
- Donoso-Barros, R. 1967. Diagnosis de dos nuevas especies del género Gonatodes de Venezuela. Noticiario Mensual del Museo Nacional de Historia Natural, Santiago (Chile) 11 (129): 4
- RIVAS, GILSON A.; CÉSAR R. MOLINA, GABRIEL N. UGUETO, TITO R. BARROS, CÉSAR L. BAR- RIO-AMORÓS & PHILIPPE J. R. KOK 2012. Reptiles of Venezuela: an updated and commented checklist. Zootaxa 3211: 1–64 - get paper here
- Rivero-Blanco, C. 1979. The Neotropical lizard genus Gonatodes Fitzinger (Sauria: Sphaerodactylinae). Unpublished Ph.D. dissertation, Department of Wildlife and Fisheries Sciences, Texas A&M University, College Station. 233 pp.
- Rojas-Runjaic, Fernando J. M. & Edwin E. Infante Rivero 2009. Redescripción de Gonatodes petersi Donoso-Barros, 1967 (Squamata: Gekkonidae), un tuqueque endémico de la vertiente venezolana de la sierra de Perijá. Memoria de la Fundación La Salle de Ciencias Naturales 170: 81-98 [2008] - get paper here
- Rojas-Runjaic, Fernando J. M. and Gilson A. Rivas Fuenmayor 2006. Notes on the natural history and geographic distribution of Gonatodes petersi Donoso-Barros, 1967, (Sauria: Gekkonidae): An endemic and poorly known gecko of the Sierra de Perijá, Venezuela. Gekko 5 (1): 21-25
- Rösler, H. 2000. Kommentierte Liste der rezent, subrezent und fossil bekannten Geckotaxa (Reptilia: Gekkonomorpha). Gekkota 2: 28-153
- SCHARGEL, WALTER E.; GILSON A. RIVAS, JUAN E. GARCÍA-PÉREZ, CARLOS RIVERO-BLANCO, PAUL T. CHIPPINDALE, MATTHEW K. FUJITA 2017. A new species of Gonatodes (Squamata: Sphaerodactylidae) from the western versant of the Cordillera de Mérida, Venezuela. Zootaxa 4291 (3): 549–562 - get paper here
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