Phyllopezus przewalskii KOSLOWSKY, 1895

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Higher Taxa	Phyllodactylidae, Gekkota, Sauria, Squamata (lizards: geckos)
Subspecies
Common Names	E: Przewalsky’s Gecko Portuguese: Lagartixa-de-Pedra, Lagartixa-do-Cerrado
Synonym	Phyllopezus przewalskii KOSLOWSKY 1895: 371 Phyllopezus goyazensis PERACCA 1895 (nec PETERS 1877) Phyllopezus goyazensis — GRIFFIN 1933 (partim) Phyllopezus pollicaris przewalskyi — VANZOLINI 1952 Phyllopezus pollicaris przewalskyi — CEI 1993: 347 Phyllopezus przewalskii — GALLARDO 1966: 16 Phyllopezus przewalskii — GALLARDO 1972 Phyllopezus pollicaris przewalskyi — CEI 1993 Phyllopezus pollicaris przewalskii — RÖSLER 1995: 147 Phyllopezus goyazensis — DIRKSEN & DE LA RIVA 1999 Phyllopezus pollicaris — DIRKSEN & DE LA RIVA 1999 Phyllopezus pollicaris przewaskii [sic] — RÖSLER 2000: 105 Phyllopezus goyazensis — LANGSTROTH 2005 Phyllopezus przewalskii — COSTA & BÉRNILS 2015 Phyllopezus przewalskii — CACCIALI et al. 2018 Phyllopezus przewalskii — DUBEUX et al. 2025
Distribution	N Argentina, SW Brazil, W Paraguay, SE Bolivia Type locality: Descalvado, Distrito Cáceres, Mato Grosso, Brazil.
Reproduction	oviparous
Types	Holotype: MLP S2419
Diagnosis	Diagnosis: “Lagarto mediano o grande, con cabeza deprimida; grisáceo, liso, con hileras longitudinales de pequeños tubérculos chatos dorsales. Reconocible de Homonota, y todo otro lacertilido argentino, por sus dedos muy dilatados, con lamelas no divididas en el medio y terminando con falanges modificadas, angostas y unguiculadas.” (Cei 1993) Unfortunately we had to temporarily remove additional information as this was scraped by multiple AI companies who sell that data to their customers. These details, e.g. detailed descriptions or comparisons (about 3244 characters) are available for collaborators and contributors. Please contact us for details.
Comment	Distribution: For distributions maps of both subspecies see Vanzolini 1968: 100 (Map 7), Cacciali et al. 2018: 2 (Fig. 1), and Dubeux et al. 2025: 174 (Fig. 1).
Etymology	Named after Nikolai Mikhailovitch Prjevalsky (1839–1888), Russian militar, explorer and naturalist. (Esteban Lavilla, pers. comm., April 2024).
References	Cacciali, Pier; Sebastian Lotzkat, Tony Gamble, and Gunther Köhler 2018. Cryptic Diversity in the Neotropical Gecko Genus Phyllopezus Peters, 1878 (Reptilia: Squamata: Phyllodactylidae): A New Species from Paraguay. International Journal of Zoology, Article ID 3958327, 14 pp. - get paper here Cei, J. M. 1993. Reptiles del noroeste, nordeste y este de la Argentina. Museo Regionale Sci. Naturale Torino, Monografie 14: 1-949 Costa, Henrique Caldeira & Renato Silveira Bérnils 2015. Répteis brasileiros: lista de espécies 2015. Herpetologia Brasileira 4 (3): 75-93 Dirksen, L. & De la Riva, I. 1999. The lizards and amphisbaenians of Bolivia (Reptilia, Squamata): checklist, localities, and bibliography. Graellsia 55: 199-215 - get paper here Dorado-Rodrigues, T. F., Valadão, R. M., Valério, L. M., Castro, C. P. D., & Strüssmann, C. 2025. Herpetofauna from a protected area situated in a biogeographic transition zone in Central South America. Biota Neotropica, 25(1), e20241681 - get paper here Dubeux, M. J., Dubeux, G. M. V., Neves, J. M., Werneck, F. P., Rodrigues, M. T., Mott, T., & Nunes, P. M. 2025. Uncovering Neotropical rock geckos’ diversity: multiple data sources on an integrated taxonomic approach reveal a new species of Phyllopezus Peters, 1878 (Squamata: Phyllodactylidae) from northeastern Brazilian Atlantic Forest. Zoologischer Anzeiger 319: 173-195 - get paper here Gallardo, J.M. 1972. Composicion faunistica de los saurios de la Provincia de la Pampa, Republica Argentina. Neotropica 17 (52): 44-48 Gallardo, Jose M. 1966. Liolaemus lentus nov. Sp. (Iguanidae) de la Pampa y Algunas observaciones sobre los saurios de picha provincia Argentina y del oeste de Buenos Aires. Neotropica 12 (37): 15-29 Gonzalez R. C. et al. 2020. Lista dos Nomes Populares dos Répteis no Brasil – Primeira Versão. Herpetologia Brasileira 9 (2): 121 – 214 - get paper here Griffin, L. E. 1917. A list of the South American lizards of the Carnegie Museum, with descriptions of four new species. Annals of the Carnegie Museum 11: 304-320. - get paper here Koslowsky, J. 1895. Un nuevo geco de Matto Grosso. Revista del Museo de La Plata, 6 [1894]: 371-373 - get paper here Langstroth, R.P. 2005. Adiciones probables y confirmadas para la saurofauna boliviana. Kempffiana 1 (1): 101-128 - get paper here Peracca, M. G. 1897. Rettili e Anfibi. Viaggio del Dott. Alfredo Borelli nel Chaco boliviano e nella Repubblica Argentina. Bollettino dei Musei di Zoologia ed Anatomia Comparata della R. Università di Torino, 12 (274): 1-19. - get paper here Rösler, H. 2000. Kommentierte Liste der rezent, subrezent und fossil bekannten Geckotaxa (Reptilia: Gekkonomorpha). Gekkota 2: 28-153 RÖSLER, H. 2020. Vergleichende Untersuchungen zur extrakorporalen Entwicklung weich- und hartschaliger Eier von Geckos (Squamata: Gekkota): 6. Phyllopezus przewalskii Koslowsky, 1895 (Phyllodactylidae) Sauria 42 (2): 45-50 Rösler, Herbert 1995. Geckos der Welt - Alle Gattungen. Urania, Leipzig, 256 pp. Smith, P., Maciel, J. ., Redin Hurtado, M. ., Galeano, S. ., Stepan, N. ., Brouard, J.-P. ., Ríos, S. D. ., Ferreira Riveros, M. ., Smith, R. L. ., Owen, M. ., Nicolay, H. ., Derna, R. ., Vera Burró, A. ., Lahaye, T. ., & Cacciali, P. . 2024. Twenty-eight new and significant departmental reptile records for Paraguay Acta Zoológica Lilloana, 347–385 - get paper here Vanzolini, P. E. 1952. Sobre o Género Phyllopezus Peters (Sauria, Gekkonidae). Pap. Avuls. Zool. 11 (22): 353-369 - get paper here
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