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Pseudogonatodes quihuai ROJAS-RUNJAIC, KOCH+<br />CASTROVIEJO-FISHER+<br />PRUDENTE, 2024

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Higher TaxaSphaerodactylidae, Gekkota, Sauria, Squamata (lizards: geckos)
Subspecies 
Common Names 
SynonymPseudogonatodes quihuai ROJAS-RUNJAIC, KOCH, CASTROVIEJO-FISHER & PRUDENTE 2024: 304 
DistributionVenezuela (Cordillera de Mérida)

Type locality: ⁓2.2 km NW from Altamira de Cáceres, Bolívar municipality, Barinas state, Venezuela (8.839790°, -70.513770°; elevation 1,120 m asl; Fig. 1).  
Reproduction 
TypesHolotype: MHNLS 21643, adult female, from El Potrerito, collected on February 15, 2015, by Daniel Quihua.
Paratypes (n=6): an adult female (MHNLS 22711, field number DQ 83), an adult male (MHNLS 22710, field number DQ 82), and a juvenile (MHNLS 22709, field number DQ 81), from Sendero El Oso, Posada San Ramón, ⁓6 km N from Altamira de Cáceres, Bolívar municipality, Barinas state, Venezuela (8.878750°, - 70.497580°; elevation 1,319 m asl), collected on October 17, 2016, by Daniel Quihua, José Vieira & Dennys Mora; an adult male (MHNLS 22712, field number DQ 84) and a juvenile (MHNLS 22713, field number DQ 85), from the type locality, collected on October 20, 2016, by Daniel Quihua, José Vieira & Dennys Mora; and a juvenile (MHNLS 21644, without field number) with the same data as the holotype. 
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Comment 
EtymologyNamed in honor of José Daniel Quihua Ramírez, a young self-taught naturalist and wildlife photographer and collaborator of the first author. 
References
  • ROJAS-RUNJAIC, FERNANDO J. M. ; CLAUDIA KOCH; SANTIAGO CASTROVIEJO-FISHER & ANA L. C. PRUDENTE 2024. A new dwarf gecko of the genus Pseudogonatodes (Squamata: Sphaerodactylidae) from the eastern slope of the Andean Cordillera de Mérida in northern South America. Zootaxa 5418 (4): 301-327 - get paper here
  • Wang, K., Yu, Z. B., Wu, Y. H., Hou, S. B., Gao, W., Duan, S. H., ... & Che, J. 2024. Herpetofauna diversity of the Gaoligong Mountain in China: Checklist, zoogeography, and conservation. Zoological Research: Diversity and Conservation - get paper here
 
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