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Hemidactylus paivae CERÍACO, AGARWAL, MARQUES & BAUER, 2020

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Higher TaxaGekkonidae, Gekkota, Sauria, Squamata (lizards: geckos)
Subspecies 
Common NamesPortuguese: Osga de Jorge Paiva
E: Paiva’s Gecko 
SynonymHemidactylus paivae CERÍACO, AGARWAL, MARQUES & BAUER 2020
Hemidactylus verruculatus — BOCAGE 1866: 42
Hemidactylus longicephalus — FERREIRA 1904: 117 [part]
Hemidactylus longicephalus — PARKER 1936: 128
Hemidactylus longicephalus — LOVERIDGE 1947: 187
Hemidactylus longicephalus — HELLMICH 1957: 49
Hemidactylus bocagii — BOULENGER 1885: 126 [part]
Hemidactylus bocagii — BOCAGE 1895: 11
Hemidactylus bocagii — BOCAGE 1897: 193
Hemidactylus longicephalus — CERÍACO et al. 2014: 671
Hemidactylus longicephalus — CERÍACO et al. 2018: 412 [part]
Hemidactylus longicephalus — RÖSLER 2015: 8
Hemidactylus longicephalus — MARQUES et al. 2018: 184
Hemidactylus longicephalus — BRANCH et al. 2019: 315 
DistributionAngola (Kwanza Sul, Malanje, Uíge, Kwanza Norte, Kwanza Sul, Namibe)

Type locality: CADA Amboim (outskirts of Gabela) (-10.86754°, 14.32281°, 930 m), Kwanza Sul Province, Republic of Angola  
Reproduction 
TypesHolotype. CAS 263312 (field number AMB 9886; Fig. 28; Table 6), adult male, collected by Luis M. P. Ceríaco, David C. Blackburn and Aaron M. Bauer on 7 December 2015.
Paratypes. All specimens from the Republic of Angola. Eleven specimens: UF 187198 (field number AMB 9906), adult male; UF 187197 (field number AMB 9879), adult male; UF 187199 (field number 9907), adult female; CAS 263313 (field number AMB 9875), adult male; CAS 263314 (field number AMB 9877), adult male; CAS 263316–263318 (field numbers AMB 9904, 9905, 9908 respectively), adult females; all specimens with the same collecting data as the holotype. MHNCUP/REP 469 (field number AMB 9636), adult male collected in Laúca (-9.762749o, 15.143798o, 750 m), Malanje Province, Republic of Angola, collected by Luis M.P. Ceríaco and Mariana P. Marques on 20 March 2017. MHNCUP/REP 470 (field number AMB 9656), adult male on 24 March 2017; MUHNAC/MB03-MB03-001234 (field number AMB 9197), on 15 March 2017, from the same locality. 
DiagnosisDiagnosis: A medium sized Hemidactylus, maximum snout-vent length 68.4 mm (Fig. 27). Dorsal pholidosis heterogeneous, with 14–16 irregularly arranged longitudinal rows of subtrihedral, striated, moderately keeled tubercles. Two well-developed pairs of postmentals, the inner pair slightly longer than the outer pair, about two thirds size of the mental, and in broad contact behind the mental. ventrolateral folds distinct, about 28–34 scale rows across venter. Six to eight divided scansors beneath first digit of both manus and pes, eight or nine beneath fourth digit of manus, 10–11 beneath the fourth digit of pes. Males with a continuous series of 6–8 precloacal pores. Original tail roughly cyclotetragonal, strongly spinose; dorsal scales on the tail slightly larger than dorsals of body, striated, imbricate, with a longitudinal series of two enlarged, strongly keeled, striated, pointed tubercles on either side of the median dorsal furrow. Subcaudal scales small and imbricate, about one fifth of tail width. Dorsum greyish with a series of sometimes incomplete dark-brown transverse markings from occiput to sacrum, sometimes bordered by a thin cream-colored stripe extending from behind the eyes to the insertion of the forelimbs; tail with distinct alternating light and dark bands. 
Comment 
EtymologyThe species is named after Jorge Américo Rodrigues de Paiva (1933–), Angolan-born Portuguese botanist, researcher of the Herbarium of the University of Coimbra (COI), Portugal, and professor at the same university, for his major contributions to the knowledge of the flora and biodiversity of Angola, and for the fact that his birthplace (Cambondo, Kwanza Norte Province) lies within the expected distribution range of the newly described species. Following Article 31.1.1 of the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature (Anonymous 1999), the masculine surname Paiva is treated as Latin and forms the specific epthet in the genitive case, “paivae.” 
References
  • Bethencourt-Ferreira, Julio 1904. Reptis e Amphibios de Angola de Regiao ao Norte do Quanza (Colleçcao Newton, 1903). Jornal de Sciencias Mathematicas, Physicas e Naturaes (Lisboa), (2), 7: 111-117.
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  • CERÍACO, LUIS M. P.; ISHAN AGARWAL, MARIANA P. MARQUES, AARON M. BAUER 2020. A correction to a recent review of the genus Hemidactylus Goldfuss, 1820 (Squamata: Gekkonidae) from Angola, with the description of two additional species. Zootaxa 4861 (1): 92-106 - get paper here
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  • Hellmich, W. 1957. Herpetologische Ergebnisse einer Forschungsreise in Angola. Veröff. Zool. Staatssammlung München 5: 1-91 - get paper here
  • Hellmich, Walter 1957. Die Reptilienausbeute der Hamburgischen Angola-Expedition. Mitteilungen aus dem Hamburgischen Zoologischen Museum und Institut (Hamburg), 55: 39-80.
  • Lobón-Rovira, J., Conradie, W., Buckley Iglesias, D., Ernst, R., Veríssimo, L., Baptista, N., & Pinto, P. V. 2021. Between sand, rocks and branches: an integrative taxonomic revision of Angolan Hemidactylus Goldfuss, 1820, with description of four new species. Vertebrate Zoology 71: 465–501; DOI 10.3897/vz.73.e64781 - 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
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