Tarentola boettgeri STEINDACHNER, 1891

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Higher Taxa	Phyllodactylidae, Gekkota, Sauria, Squamata (lizards: geckos)
Subspecies	Tarentola boettgeri boettgeri STEINDACHNER 1891 Tarentola boettgeri bischoffi JOGER 1984 Tarentola boettgeri hierrensis JOGER & BISCHOFF 1983
Common Names	E: Boettger's Wall Gecko G: Gestreifter Kanarengecko
Synonym	Tarentola delalandii var. boettgeri STEINDACHNER 1891 Tarentola delalandii var. boettgeri — BOULENGER 1906: 200 Tarentola delalandii boettgeri — LOVERIDGE 1947: 330 Tarentola delalandii boettgeri — WERMUTH 1965: 179 Tarentola (Makariogecko) boettgeri — JOGER 1984 Tarentola boettgeri — KLUGE 1993 Tarentola (Makariogecko) boettgeri — RÖSLER 2000: 116 Tarentola boettgeri boettgeri — DE LISLE et al. 2013 Tarentola boettgeri bischoffi JOGER 1984: 104 Tarentola bischoffi JOGER 1984 Tarentola delalandii — BACALLADO & OROMI 1978 Tarentola boettgeri bischoffi — NOGALES et al. 1998 Tarentola bischoffi — JOGER 1998 Tarentola (Makariogecko) bischoffi — CARRANZA et al. 2000 Tarentola (Makariogecko) bischoffi — RÖSLER 2000: 116 Tarentola boettgeri bischoffi — PENADO et al. 2015 Tarentola boettgeri bischoffi — SPEYBROECK et al. 2020 Tarentola boettgeri hierrensis JOGER & BISCHOFF 1983 Tarentola boettgeri hierrensis — BISCHOFF 1984 Tarentola boettgeri hierrensis — NETTMANN & RYKENA 1985 Tarentola boettgeri hierrensis — DE LISLE et al. 2013
Distribution	Gran Canaria, El Hierro (Canary Islands) bischoffi: Selvagens Archipelago (Madeira, Portugal); Type locality: Selvagem Grande (Selvagens Archipelago) hierrensis: Hierro, Canary Islands, Spain; Type locality: “Arenas blancas, westl. Sabinosa, Westspitze der Insel Hierro” Type locality: Gran Canaria.
Reproduction	oviparous
Types	Syntypes: NMW 17981:1-31 Holotype: SMF 29294, male; paratypes: ZFMK [bischoffi] Holotype: ZFMK 24906, paratypes in ZFMK, SMF, HLMD RA-1684-1685 (formerly ZFMK) [hierrensis]
Diagnosis
Comment	Distribution: Tarentola boettgeri doesn’t occur on the Cape Verde Islands (A. Vilado, pers. comm.) although it has been reported from these islands. Subspecies: Tarentola boettgeri bischoffi JOGER 1984 has been elevated to species status, but since T. bischoffi is closely related to T. boettgeri hierrensis (Carranza et al. 2000) it has been treated as subspecies again by more recent authors.
Etymology	Named after Oskar Boettger (1844-1910), herpetologist at the Senckenberg Museum in Frankfurt am Main. T. b. bischoffi was named after Wolfgang Bischoff (born 1945), German herpetologist. See Zawadzki 2010-2020 for biographical details.
References	BACALLADO, J. J. & OROMI, P. 1978. Breve Nota Ornitológica y herpetológica sobre las Islas Salvajes. - In: Anonymus, Contribución al Estudio de la Historia natural de las Islas Salvajes, Resultado de la Expedición científica "Agamemnon 76",. Mus. cienc. nat. Cabildo ins. Santa Cruz de Tenerife: 199-209 Beolens, Bo; Michael Watkins, and Michael Grayson 2011. The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, USA - get paper here Bischoff, W. 1984. Bemerkungen über die endemische Echsenfauna der Kanarischen Inseln. Sauria 6 (2): 5-11 - get paper here Bischoff, W. 1985. Die Herpetofauna der Kanarischen Inseln. II. Die Geckos der Gattung Tarentola. Herpetofauna 7 (35): 27-34 - get paper here Bonetti, Mathilde 2002. 100 Sauri. Mondadori (Milano), 192 pp. - get paper here Boulenger, G.A. 1906. Report on the reptiles collected by the late L. Fea in West Africa. Ann. Mus. civ. Stor. Nat. Genova (3) 2: 196-216 - get paper here Brown, R.P. 1996. Thermal Biology of the Gecko Tarentola boettgeri: Comparisons among Populations from Different Elevations within Gran Canaria Herpetologica 52 (3): 396-405. - get paper here Carranza, S., Arnold, E. Nicholas; Mateo, J. A. and L. F. López-Jurado 2000. Long-distance colonization and radiation in gekkonid lizards, Tarentola (Reptilia: Gekkonidae), revealed by mitochondrial DNA sequences. Proc. R. Soc. London B 267: 637-649 - get paper here Gemel, R.; G. Gassner & S. Schweiger 2019. Katalog der Typen der Herpetologischen Sammlung des Naturhistorischen Museums Wien – 2018. Ann. Naturhist. Mus. Wien, B 121: 33–248 Gil V, Pinho CJ, Aguiar CAS, Jardim C, Rebelo R, Vasconcelos R. 2020. Questioning the proverb ‘more haste, less speed’: classic versus metabarcoding approaches for the diet study of a remote island endemic gecko. PeerJ 8: e8084 - get paper here Joger U; Bischoff W 1983. Zwei neue Taxa der Gattung Tarentola (Reptilia: Sauria: Gekkonidae) von den Kanarischen Inseln. Bonner Zoologische Beiträge 34 (1-3): 459-468 - get paper here Joger, U. 1984. Die Radiation der Gattung Tarentola in Makaronesien. Courier Forschungsinstitut Senckenberg 71: 91-111 Joger, U. 1985. Biochemical and immunological data on endemic gecko of the Selvages Islands. Bonner Zoologische Beiträge 36: 307-314 - get paper here JOGER, U. 1998. Tarentola bischoffi Joger, 1984 - Selvagens-Gecko. In: W. BISCHOFF (Hrsg.) Die Reptilien der Kanarischen Inseln, der Selvagens-Inseln und des Madeira Archipels. (Handbuch der Reptilien und Amphibien Europas Bd. 6) 449 pp. Aula Verlag Wiesbaden, pp. 131-136 Krefft, G. 1949. Beobachtungen an kanarischen Inseleidechsen. 4. Tarentola delalandei boettgeri. Wochenschr. Aquar. Terr. 5 (43): 114-116 Malkmus, R. 1995. Die Amphibien und Reptilien Portugals, Madeiras und der Azoren. Die Neue Brehm-Bücherei, Bd. 621. Westarp Wissenschaften (Magdeburg)/Spektrum Akademischer Verlag (Heidelberg) NETTMANN, H. K. & S. RYKENA 1985. Verhaltens- und fortpflanzungsbiologische Notizen von kanarischen und nordafrikanischen Tarentola-Arten. Bonner zool. Beitr. 36, 287-305 Nogales M., M. López, J. Jiménez-Asensio, J. M. Larruga, M. Hernández, and P. González 1998. Evolution and biogeography of the genus Tarentola (Sauria: Gekkonidae) in the Canary Islands, inferred from mitochondrial DNA sequences. J. Evol. Biol. 11: 481–494 - get paper here Penado, Andreia; Ricardo Rocha, Marta Sampaio, Vanessa Gil, Bruno M. Carreira, Rui Rebelo 2015. Where to “Rock”? Choice of retreat sites by a gecko in a semi-arid habitat. Acta Herpetologica 10: 47-54 - get paper here PIQUET, JULIEN C.; BORJA MAESTRESALAS & MARTA LÓPEZ-DARIAS. 2022. Coupling phenotypic changes to extinction and survival in an endemic prey community threatened by an invasive snake. Scientific Reports 12(1): 18249. - get paper here Rocha, Ricardo; Rui Rebelo. 2010. First record of a piebald Selvagens Gecko Tarentola boettgeri bischoffi (Squamata: Gekkonidae). Herpetology Notes 3: 361-362. Rösler, H. 2000. Kommentierte Liste der rezent, subrezent und fossil bekannten Geckotaxa (Reptilia: Gekkonomorpha). Gekkota 2: 28-153 RYKENA, S. , B. HIELEN & H. K. NETTMANN 1998. Tarentola boettgeri Steindachner, 1891 - Gestreifter Kanarengecko. In: W. BISCHOFF (Hrsg.) Die Reptilien der Kanarischen Inseln, der Selvagens-Inseln und des Madeira Archipels. (Handbuch der Reptilien und Amphibien Europas Bd. 6) 449 pp. Aula Verlag Wiesbaden, pp. 137 - 160 Sindaco, R. & Jeremcenko, V.K. 2008. The reptiles of the Western Palearctic. Edizioni Belvedere, Latina (Italy), 579 pp. - get paper here Speybroeck, Jeroen; Wouter Beukema, Christophe Dufresnes, Uwe Fritz, Daniel Jablonski, Petros Lymberakis, Iñigo Martínez-Solano, Edoardo Razzetti, Melita Vamberger, Miguel Vences, Judit Vörös0, Pierre-André Crochet 2020. Species list of the European herpetofauna – 2020 update by the Taxonomic Committee of the Societas Europaea Herpetologica.. Amphibia-Reptilia 41: 139-189 - get paper here Steindachner, F. 1891. Ueber die Reptilien und Batrachier der westlichen und oestlichen Gruppe der Kanarischen Inseln. Ann. K.K. Hofmuseums Wien 6: 287-306 - get paper here Wagner, P.R. 2002. Die Echsen der Ilhas Selvagens - einer vergessenen kleinen makaronesischen Inselgruppe. Elaphe 10 (1): 61-67 ZAWADZKI, M. 2010. Zum 65. Geburtstag von WOLFGANG BISCHOFF. Die Eidechse 21 (2): 61-63. - get paper here ZAWADZKI, M. 2015. Zum 70. Geburtstag von WOLFGANG BISCHOFF. Die Eidechse 26 (2): 60-61. - get paper here ZAWADZKI, M. 2020. WOLFGANG BISCHOFF - Zum 75. Geburtstag! Elaphe 2020 (5): 86-87
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