Lygodactylus pakenhami LOVERIDGE, 1941
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Lygodactylus pakenhami
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| Higher Taxa | Gekkonidae, Gekkota, Sauria, Squamata (lizards: geckos) |
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| Common Names | E: Grote’s dwarf gecko |
| Synonym | Lygodactylus grotei pakenhami LOVERIDGE 1941: 176 Lygodactylus capensis pakenhami — BROADLEY & HOWELL 1991: 9 Lygodactylus (Lygodactylus) capensis pakenhami — RÖSLER 2000: 92 Lygodactylus capensis pakenhami — HAWLITSCHEK et al. 2012 Lygodactylus capensis pakenhami — DE LISLE et al. 2013: 153 Lygodactylus pakenhami — RÖLL 2018 Lygodactylus grotei pakenhami — REBELO et al. 2019 Lygodactylus pakenhami — RÖLL et al. 2023 |
| Distribution | Tanzania (Pemba Island) Type locality: Wete, Pemba Island, Tanzania |
| Reproduction | oviparous (not imputed, fide Zimin et al. 2022) |
| Types | Holotype: MCZ R-46082 |
| Diagnosis | Diagnosis: Agrees with grotei Sternfeld in scale counts, but differs in color pattern and habitus, which is smaller and less robust than in grotei. The light vertebral and lateral lines of typical grotei (of which I recently collected seventeen topotypes) are absent or only faintly indicated. A dark streak from nostril through eye to neck is present, but is both narrower and less well defined than in the typical mainland form. The insular form is characterized by conspicuous black flecking on head, back, and limbs. (Loveridge 1941: 176) |
| Comment | Similar species: Lygodactylus pakenhami from Pemba and L. grotei from mainland Africa cannot be distinguished by their scalation, but their reciprocal monophyly suggested by mitochondrial DNA, conspicuously different coloration (both in adults and hatchlings) and their high genetic distances (16.3% in ND2) support the hypothesis that these taxa represent two distinct species (Röll et al. 2023). |
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