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Lygodactylus wetzeli (SMITH, MARTIN & SWAIN, 1977)

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Higher TaxaGekkonidae, Gekkota, Sauria, Squamata (lizards: geckos)
Subspecies 
Common NamesE: South American Dwarf Gecko
Portuguese: Briba, Lagartixa-Anã 
SynonymVanzoia wetzeli SMITH, MARTIN & SWAIN 1977: 196
Lygodactylus wetzeli — BONS & PASTEUR 1977
Lygodactylus wetzeli — KLUGE 1993
Vanzoia wetzeli — RÖSLER 2000: 120
Lygodactylus wetzli — UETANABARO et al. 2007 (in error)
Lygodactylus wetzeli — CACCIALI et al. 2016 
DistributionBrazil (Matto Grosso do Sul), N Paraguay, E Bolivia (Santa Cruz, Tarija)

Type locality: Brasil, Mato Grosso do Sul, Urucum  
Reproductionoviparous 
TypesHolotype: MZUSP 7722, an adult male (Museu de Zoologia, Universidade de Sao Paulo) 
DiagnosisDiagnosis: A species having the characters of the genus Vanzoia, but differing from V. klugei in having more numerous preanal pores (7 vs 3-5); escutcheon not involving shank, but large on abdomen; no porelike escutcheon scales following preanal pores (Smith et al. 1977: 199). 
CommentSouth American Lygodactylus presumably resulted from a single trans-Atlantic dispersal event 29 Mya (Lanna et al. 2018). 
EtymologyNamed after Ralph M. Wetzel, “in recognition of his pioneering efforts to open the Chaco Boreal of Paraguay to study of its modern vertebrate fauna”. 
References
  • Bons & PASTEUR 1977. C.R. Acad. Sci. paris 284: 2547
  • Cacciali, Pier; Norman J. Scott, Aida Luz Aquino Ortíz, Lee A. Fitzgerald, and Paul Smith 2016. The Reptiles of Paraguay: Literature, Distribution, and an Annotated Taxonomic Checklist. SPECIAL PUBLICATION OF THE MUSEUM OF SOUTHWESTERN BIOLOGY, NUMBER 11: 1–373 - get paper here
  • CERÍACO, L. M., & PASSOS, P. 2023. Historical natural history collections allow the description of a new and presumably extinct species of dwarf gecko (Squamata: Gekkonidae: Lygodactylus Gray, 1864) from Fernando de Noronha Island, Brazil. An Acad Bras Cienc, 95(3), e20230222
  • Gonzáles, L. 1998. La herpetofauna del Izozog. Ecol. Bolivia 31: 45-51.
  • Gonzales, Lucindo; Arturo Muñoz y Edson Cortez 2006. PRIMER REPORTE SOBRE LA HERPETOFAUNA DE LA RESERVA NATURAL “EL CORBALÁN”, TARIJA, BOLIVIA [FIRST REPORT ON THE HERPETOFAUNA OF “EL CORBALAN” NATURAL RESERVE, TARIJA, BOLIVIA]. Kempffiana 2 (1): 72-94 - get paper here
  • Gonzalez R. C. et al. 2020. Lista dos Nomes Populares dos Répteis no Brasil – Primeira Versão. Herpetologia Brasileira 9 (2): 121 – 214 - get paper here
  • Lanna, F.M., Werneck, F.P., Gehara, M., Fonseca, E.M., Colli, G.R., Sites, J.W. Jr., Rodrigues, M.T., Garda, A.A. 2018. The evolutionary history of Lygodactylus lizards in the South American open diagonal. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution - get paper here
  • Rösler, H. 2000. Kommentierte Liste der rezent, subrezent und fossil bekannten Geckotaxa (Reptilia: Gekkonomorpha). Gekkota 2: 28-153
  • Smith, H. M., R. L. Martin, and T. A. Swain. 1977. A new genus and two new species of South American geckos (Reptilia: Lacertilia). Pap. Avulsos Zool. 30: 195—213 - get paper here
  • Strussman,C. & de Carvalho,M.A. 1998. New herpetological records for the state of Mato Grosso, western Brazil. Herpetological Review 29 (3): 183-185 - get paper here
  • Uetanabaro, Masao; Franco Leandro Souza, Paulo Landgref Filho,<br>Arlindo Figueira Beda & Reuber Albuquerque Brandão 2007. Anfíbios e répteis do Parque Nacional da Serra da Bodoquena, Mato Grosso do Sul, Brasil. Biota Neotropica 7 (3) - get paper here
 
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