Tarentola caboverdiana SCHLEICH, 1984
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Tarentola caboverdiana
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| Higher Taxa | Phyllodactylidae, Gekkota, Sauria, Squamata (lizards: geckos) |
| Subspecies | |
| Common Names | E: Cape Verde Wall Gecko |
| Synonym | Tarentola caboverdianus caboverdianus SCHLEICH 1984 Tarentola delalandii — BOCAGE 1896: 4 (part.), 1902: 209 (part.) Tarentola delalandii var. rudis — LOVERIDGE 1947: 334 (part.) Tarentola delalandei delalandei — DEKEYSER & VILLIERS 1951: 1152 (part.) Tarentola delalandii rudis — MERTENS 1954: 6 (part.) Tarentola delalandii delalandii — SCHLEICH 1982: 246 (part.) Tarentola caboverdiana caboverdiana — JOGER 1984: 102 Tarentola caboverdianus — SCHLEICH 1984 Tarentola caboverdiana — SCHLEICH 1987 Tarentola caboverdiana caboverdiana — JOGER 1993 Tarentola caboverdianus — KLUGE 1993 Tarentola caboverdiana antoensis JOGER 1984 (nomen nudum) Tarentola (Makariogecko) caboverdiana — CARRANZA et al. 2000 Tarentola caboverdiana — VASCONCELOS et al. 2012: 348 Tarentola caboverdiana — MORAVEC 2023 |
| Distribution | Sto. Antão (Cape Verde Islands) Type locality: Sto. Antão (Cape Verde Islands) |
| Reproduction | oviparous |
| Types | Holotype: ZSM 141/1981/3 (given as ZSM 03.141/81) |
| Diagnosis | Diagnosis (caboverdiana): Medium-sized gecko [maximum SVL around 73.0 mm (Joger, 1993), 56.7 mm on average; Appendix 2], eye/ear opening ratio between 1.5 and 2 (Schleich, 1987); ear–eye/eye–snout distance ratio ≤ 1 (Schleich, 1987). Nine to 13 supralabials and seven to ten infralabials (Schleich, 1987); eight to ten enlarged lamellae under the 4th finger; 116–150 midbody scales (Joger, 1984b); oval to round conical and saddle-like more-or-less keeled dorsal tubercles (Fig. 5B3) with 14–16 (often 16) longitudinal lines (Schleich, 1987); no tubercles between the eye and the ear opening. Dorsal pattern with symmetrical butterfly- or X-shaped dark dorsal crossbands often lined with whitish tubercles posteriorly; vertebral stripe frequently present, but narrow and indistinct (Figs 6B3, 7B3); cream to yellow ventral parts; gen- erally white labials; eye iris blackish. It differs from other Tarentola from clades B and C by its tail length, which is smaller than SVL (Schleich, 1984). It differs from T. raziana by its larger SVL and higher number of dorsal bands; from T. substituta by its lower number of interorbital scales and by the head length being comparatively shorter than hind- limb length (Joger, 1984b). It differs from specimens from clade C by having a lower number of lamellae under the fifth toe (Joger, 1984b). MORPHOBANK M44501–M44514, M55715–M55761 [VASCONCELOS et al. 2012]. |
| Comment | Synonymy after Filipe Sousa (pers. comm.) and VASCONCELOS et al. 2012. Subspecies: The subspecies Tarentola caboverdianus substituta JOGER 1984 T. c. nicolauensis SCHLEICH 1984, and T. c. razianus SCHLEICH 1984 have been elevated to full species status. |
| Etymology | named after its type locality. |
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