Tropiocolotes confusus MACHADO, SMÍD, MAZUCH, SINDACO, SHUKAILI, CARRANZA, 2018
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Tropiocolotes confusus
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| Higher Taxa | Gekkonidae, Gekkota, Sauria, Squamata (lizards: geckos) |
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| Synonym | Tropiocolotes confusus MACHADO, ŠMÍD, MAZUCH, SINDACO, SHUKAILI, CARRANZA 2018 Tropiocolotes scorteccii — ARNOLD 1980: 289 (part) Tropiocolotes scorteccii — ARNOLD 1986: 423 (part) Tropiocolotes scorteccii — VAN DER KOOIJ 2000: 119 (part.) Tropiocolotes scorteccii — BAHA EL DIN 2001: 47 (part.) Tropiocolotes scorteccii — SINDACO & JEREMCENKO 2008: 140 (part.) Tropiocolotes scorteccii — KRAUSE et al., 2013: 23 (part.) Tropiocolotes scorteccii — GARDNER 2013: 210 (part.) Tropiocolotes sp. — CARRANZA et al. 2018: (S2 Appendix, 47) Tropiocolotes confusus — MACHADO et al. 2020 |
| Distribution | Oman (Dhofar) Type locality: Mughsayl, Dhofar, Oman, 16.879N, 53.774E WGS84, alt. 12 m elevation. |
| Reproduction | oviparous (manual imputation, fide Zimin et al. 2022) |
| Types | Holotype: NMP 6V 74272/2 (sample code OM113), male, collected on the 4 April 2010 by Jirı Smıd (MorphoBank P1260: M340162-67). Paratypes: NMP 6V 74272/1 (sample code OM114), male, same collecting data as holotype (MorphoBank P1260: M340169-74); NMP6V 75045 (sample code TMHC406), female, from West of Mughsayl, Dhofar, Oman, 16.884N, 53.773E WGS84, alt. 21 m a.s.l., collected on the 24 September 2013 by Tomas Mazuch (MorphoBank P1260: M340053– 101). |
| Diagnosis | Diagnosis: A small Tropiocolotes characterized by the following combination of morphological characters: (i) maximum recorded snout-vent length (SVL) 25.66 mm (23.59 +/- 1.18); (ii) robust body with relatively broad head (HW/HL = 0.65 +/- 0.07) and round short snout (Figure 6e in Machado et al. 2018); (iii) dorsal and ventral scales on head, body, extremities, and tail imbricate and strongly keeled (one keel on each scale), dorsals larger than ventrals (Figure 6g,i; Table S6); (iv) digits not dilated, covered below by a series of transverse tricarinated subdigital scales; (v) two pairs of postmental scales, 7–9/8–10 lower labials and 8–11/9–10 upper labials (left/right), 10–15 interorbitals; (vi) five wide dark-brown transverse bands, one on neck, three on trunk, and one just behind the hind limbs (Figure 6a,c); (vii) a wide dark-brown temporal stripe from behind the eyes, through the ear opening (avoiding its anterior part; see Figure 6a,e), and to the level of the forelimbs (Figure 6a); and (viii) 6–8 dark brown transverse bands on tail (Figure 6c). |
| Comment | Distribution: See map in Machado et al. 2020 (Fig. 1). |
| Etymology | The species epithet confusus is a Latin adjective that refers to the history of recurrent confusion by different authors between this new species and T. scorteccii. |
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