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Gonatodes seigliei DONOSO-BARROS, 1966

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Higher TaxaSphaerodactylidae, Gekkota, Sauria, Squamata (lizards: geckos)
Subspecies 
Common NamesE: Estados Sucre Gecko 
SynonymGonatodes seigliei DONOSO-BARROS 1966: 11
Gonatodes seigliei — RÖSLER 2000: 84
Gonatodes seigliei — BARRIO-AMORÓS & ORTÍZ 2016: 550 
DistributionVenezuela (Sucré, Monagas)

Type locality: Bosque de Miraflores, Puertas del Guarapichea, a los límites del estados Sucré y Monagas, Venezuela  
Reproductionoviparous 
TypesHolotype: MZUC 12038 (Museo Zoologico, Concepción, Chile, was ”Macho 646081”), col. Donoso-Barros 
DiagnosisDiagnosis: “Un gecko pequeño, caracterizado por rostral y labiales granulosas, con vermiculaciones negras sobre el dorso y presencia de un par de ocelos pequejíos dispuestos muy anteriormente.” 
CommentBehavior: mainly diurnal 
EtymologyNamed after Dr. George Alfredo Seiglie (1926-1988), a Cuban who went to live in Venezuela (1960) rather than remain under Castro's regime. 
References
  • Barrio-Amorós, C.L. 2010. GONATODES - Los Geckos diurnos de Venezuela. RioVerde 2010; 43-50
  • BARRIO-AMORÓS, CESAR L. & JUAN C. ORTÍZ 2016. Venezuelan geckos (Gekkonidae, Phyllodactylidae, Sphaerodactylidae) in the collection of the Universidad de Concepción in Chile, with description of the type series of Gonatodes ligiae and Gonatodes petersi (Sphaerodactylidae). Zootaxa 4136 (3): 537–552 - get paper here
  • Beolens, Bo; Michael Watkins, and Michael Grayson 2011. The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, USA - get paper here
  • Donoso-Barros, R. 1966. Dos nuevos Gonatodes de Venezuela. Publ. Ocas. Mus. Hist. Nat., Santiago de Chile, 11: 1-32
  • RIVAS, GILSON A.; CÉSAR R. MOLINA, GABRIEL N. UGUETO, TITO R. BARROS, CÉSAR L. BAR- RIO-AMORÓS & PHILIPPE J. R. KOK 2012. Reptiles of Venezuela: an updated and commented checklist. Zootaxa 3211: 1–64 - get paper here
  • Rösler, H. 2000. Kommentierte Liste der rezent, subrezent und fossil bekannten Geckotaxa (Reptilia: Gekkonomorpha). Gekkota 2: 28-153
 
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