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Ancylodactylus spinicollis MÜLLER, 1907

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Higher TaxaGekkonidae, Gekkota, Sauria, Squamata (lizards: geckos)
Subspecies 
Common Names 
SynonymAncylodactylus spinicollis MÜLLER 1907: 825
Ancylodactylus spinicollis — LOVERIDGE 1947: 84
Ancylodactylus spinicollis — WERMUTH 1965: 7
Ancylodactylus spinicollis — HOOGMOED 1980
Cnemaspis spinicollis — KLUGE 1993
Cnemaspis (Ancylodactylus) spinicollis — RÖSLER 2000: 63
Cnemaspis spinicollis — TRAPE, CHIRIO & TRAPE 2012
Ancylodactylus spinicollis — MALONZA & BAUER 2022 
DistributionIvory Coast, Cameroon, Benin, Nigeria, Togo (elevation in Cameroon from 400 to 1700 m), Ghana

Type locality: Mukonje-Farm, Mundame, Cameroon.  
Reproductionoviparous 
TypesHolotype: lost, was ZSM 603/1911 (fide Franzen & Glaw 2007) 
DiagnosisAdditional details, e.g. a detailed description or comparisons (2014 characters), are available for collaborators and contributors. Please contact us for details. 
CommentHabitat: forested habitats (Perret 1986; Lawson 1993), montane savanna.

Type species: C. spinicollis is the type species of the genus Ancylodactylus MÜLLER 1907. 
References
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  • Chirio, L. & Lebreton, M. 2007. Atlas des reptiles du Cameroun. MNHN, IRD, Paris 688 pp.
  • Franzen, M. & Glaw, F. 2007. Type catalogue of reptiles in the Zoologische Staatssammlung München. Spixiana 30 (2): 201-274 - get paper here
  • Ganesh S.R., Bubesh Guptha 2021. Herpetological diversity in the Central Eastern Ghats, Peninsular India. Journal of Animal Diversity 3 (3): 18-44 - get paper here
  • Gonwouo, Nono LeGrand; Tchassem Fonkwa Arnaud Marius, Doherty-Bone Thomas, Rödel Mark-Oliver 2021. Amphibian and reptiles of a proposed iron ore mining concession in southern Cameroon. Herpetology Notes 14: 1051-1065
  • Hoogmoed, M.S. 1979. Herpetologische waarnemingen in Ghana [part 1 - introduction]. Lacerta 37 (10-11): 164-168 - get paper here
  • Hoogmoed, M.S. 1980. Herpetologische waarnemingen in Ghana [part 6]. Lacerta 38 (8): 76-80 - get paper here
  • Lawson, Dwight P. 1993. The reptiles and amphibians of the Korup National Park Project, Cameroon. Herpetological Natural History 1 (2): 27-90
  • Lokasola, Albert Lotana; Cédric Botshuna Lotana, Gabriel Badjejea Babangenge and Crispin Gembu Tungaluna 2017. Distributional Data of the Lizard Fauna (Sauria) of the Maringa-Lopori-Wamba Landscape, Democratic Republic of the Congo. Journal of Environmental Science and Engineering B 6: 151-159 - get paper here
  • Loveridge, A. 1947. Revision of the African lizards of the family Gekkondiae. Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool. Harvard 98: 1-469 - get paper here
  • MALONZA, P. K., & BAUER, A. M. 2022. Resurrection of the African gecko genus Ancylodactylus Müller, 1907 (Squamata: Gekkonidae) and description of six new species from Kenya. Zootaxa 5141 (2): 101-139 - get paper here
  • Müller, L. 1907. Über einen neuen Gecko aus Kamerun und eine neue colubrine Schlange aus Centralchina. Zool. Anz. 31:824—830 - get paper here
  • Perret J L 1986. Revision des especes africaines du genre Cnemaspis Strauch, sous-genre Ancylodactylus Muller (Lacertilia, Gekkonidae), avec la description de quatre especes nouvelles. Revue Suisse de Zoologie 93 (2) 1986: 457-505 - get paper here
  • Portik DM, Jongsma GFM, Kouete MT, Scheinberg LA, Freiermuth B, Tapondjou WP, Blackburn DC. 2016. A survey of amphibians and reptiles in the foothills of Mount Kupe, Cameroon. Amphibian & Reptile Conservation 10(2) [Special Section]: 37–67 (e131)
  • Rösler, H. 2000. Kommentierte Liste der rezent, subrezent und fossil bekannten Geckotaxa (Reptilia: Gekkonomorpha). Gekkota 2: 28-153
  • Segniagbeto, Gabriel Hoinsoude; Jean-François Trape, Komlan M. Afiademanyo, Mark-Oliver Rödel, Annemarie Ohler, Alain Dubois, Patrick David, Danny Meirte, Isabelle Adolé Glitho, Fabio Petrozzi, and Luca Luiselli 2015. Checklist of the lizards of Togo (West Africa), with comments on systematics, distribution, ecology, and conservation. Zoosystema 37 (2): 381-402 - get paper here
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