Lygodactylus mirabundus LOBÓN-ROVIRA, BAUER, PINTO, TRAPE, CONRADIE, KUSAMBA, JÚLIO, CAEL, STANLEY, HUGHES, BEHANGANA, MASUDI, PAUWELS & GREENBAUM, 2023
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Lygodactylus mirabundus
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| Higher Taxa | Gekkonidae, Gekkota, Sauria, Squamata (lizards: geckos) |
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| Synonym | Lygodactylus mirabundus LOBÓN-ROVIRA, BAUER, PINTO, TRAPE, CONRADIE, KUSAMBA, JÚLIO, CAEL, STANLEY, HUGHES, BEHANGANA, MASUDI, PAUWELS & GREENBAUM 2023: 34 |
| Distribution | Democratic Republic of Congo (Sankuru) Type locality: Katako Kombe, Sankuru Province, DRC, S03.23949, E24.25117, 551 m a.s.l. |
| Reproduction | |
| Types | Holotype: UTEP 22585 (CFS 1142w), male without tail and with a ventral incision, collected on 8 May 2015 by Wandege M. Muninga, Chifundera Kusamba, and Mwenebatu M. Aristote. |
| Diagnosis | Diagnosis: Lygodactylus mirabundus sp. nov. represents a moderately sized Lygodactylus (SVL 34.8 mm), with a gular pattern that is similar to the L. gutturalis group. Seven to eight supralabials and six infralabials. Large triangular mental followed by three symmetrical postmental scales (Fig. 21). Ventral pholidosis with large, flattened, and imbricate scales. Ventral scales usually denticulated posteriorly. Digits elongated with five terminal scansors under the fourth toe (Table 3). Like other Lygodactylus within the L. gutturalis group, this species can be easily differentiated from members of the L. angularis group by its characteristic ∩-shaped gular chevrons (vs. V-shaped gular in the L. angularis group), and from other members of the L. picturatus group based on dorsal coloration (light brown with five or six laterodorsal cream ocelli vs. usually blueish dorsum with yellow to white head in the L. picturatus group). Lygodactylus mirabundus sp. nov. is a cryptic species and can be differentiated from other species within the L. gutturalis subgroup by only a few morphometric and meristic characters. It can be differentiated from other L. gutturalis subgroup species described above as follows: more precloacal pores [ten vs. 5–8 (in L. gutturalis), nine (in L. dysmicus), seven (in L. depressus), 7–8 (in L. kibera sp. nov.), and eight (in L. karamoja sp. nov.), and a unique gular pattern comprising black markings on the mandibular margin that extend to the posterior region of the jaw, an inverted Y-shaped chevron that converges anteriorly, and a posterior middle line between the two chevron branches (vs. a ∩-shaped pattern in all the described species above). For comparison with other species not included above, see the diagnoses in the species descriptions below. (Lobón-Rovira et al. 2023) |
| Comment | Distribution: for a map of localities see Lobón-Rovira et al. 2023: 18 (Fig. 6). |
| Etymology | The name ‘mirabundus’ is a Latin adjective that means ‘astonishing or surprising’. The species is only known from a unique location in a transition zone between dry savannah and the Congolian Rainforest. |
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