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Higher TaxaPhyllodactylidae, Gekkota, Sauria, Squamata (lizards: geckos)
SubspeciesTarentola fascicularis fascicularis (DAUDIN 1802)
Tarentola fascicularis wolfgangi JOGER & BSHAENIA 2010 
Common NamesE: Wolfgang’s Wall Gecko, Moorish Gecko
G: Wolfgang (Böhme’s) Mauergecko 
SynonymGecko fascicularis DAUDIN 1802
Tarentola mauritanica fascicularis — JOGER 1984
Tarentola mauritanica fascicularis — SINDACO & JEREMČENKO 2008
Tarentola fascicularis — JOGER & BSHAENIA 2010
Tarentola mauritanica fascicularis — TRAPE, CHIRIO & TRAPE 2012
Tarentola fascicularis — SARRA et al. 2013
Gecko fascicularis — BÖHME 2014: 133

Tarentola fascicularis wolfgangi JOGER & BSHAENIA 2010
Tarentola fascicularis wolfgangi — BÖHME 2014: 134 
DistributionC Tunisia, Libya, Egypt

Type locality: Ain Teyanah, 20 km south of Benghazi, Libya.

wolfgangi: C Tunisia; Type locality: Bou Hedma National Park, Tunisia (34.24’N, 9.23’E).  
Reproductionoviparous (manual and phylogenetic imputation, fide Zimin et al. 2022) 
TypesNeotype: ZFMK 35631, designated by JOGER 1984 (fascicularis)
Holotype: NHM-BS (also as SNHMB) N 41980 (State Natural History Museum Braunschweig, also as SNHM-BS), male, collected 19 August 1998 by Ulrich Joger; paratypes: ZFMK, SNHM-BS, HLMD [wolfgangi] 
DiagnosisAdditional details, e.g. a detailed description or comparisons (2804 characters), are available for collaborators and contributors. Please contact us for details. 
CommentRelationships: T. deserti is closely related to T. fascicularis, hence the two are sometimes listed as T. deserti/fascicularis complex (e.g. by Antinucci et al. 2024) 
EtymologyNamed after Latin fascis = bundle or fiber, apparently after the dorsal reticulate lines and cross-bands in this species. 
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