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Lygodactylus tchokwe MARQUES, CERIACO, BUEHLER, BANDEIRA, JANOTA & BAUER, 2020

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Higher TaxaGekkonidae, Gekkota, Sauria, Squamata (lizards: geckos)
Subspecies 
Common NamesE: Tchokwe Dwarf Gecko
Portuguese: Osga-Anã-Quioca 
SynonymLygodactylus tchokwe MARQUES, CERIACO, BUEHLER, BANDEIRA, JANOTA & BAUER 2020: 343
Lygodactylus capensis — LAURENT 1964: 31
Lygodactylus angolensis — MARQUES et al. 2018: 188 [part] 
DistributionAngola

Type locality: Alto Cuílo, Lunda Sul Province, northeastern Angola [-10.0°, 19.58333°, 1256m a.s.l.]  
Reproduction 
TypesHolotype. MD 5312b, collected by an unidentified local, on November 1954.
Paratype. Two adult males (MD 5312a, 5312c) and one adult female (MD 5312d), with the same collecting data as the holotype. 
DiagnosisDiagnosis: A medium sized Lygodactylus species. Lygodactylus tchokwe sp. nov. can be distinguished from its congeners by the following combination of characteristics: 1) three scales surrounding the nostril (one supranasal, 1st supralabial and one postnasal); 2) nostrils separated from the rostral and pierced between supranasal and the up- per limit of first supralabial; 3) mental followed by three postmentals; 4) first infralabial < 25–50% overlap with postpostmental; 5) 15 to 16 rows of ventral scales at midbody; 6) 2–4 precloacal pores; 7) median subcaudals (in a rengenerated tail) arranged in a row about 1⁄4 or less of the width of the tail (Fig. 4E); 8) venter cream 9) gular region without markings (MARQUES et al. 2020).


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Comment 
EtymologyThe specific epithet “tchokwe” is given in honor of the dominant ethnolinguistic group of the region where the species exists. 
References
  • Ceríaco, Luis M. P.; Mariana P. Marques, Ilunga André, Esteves Afonso, David C. Blackburn & Aaron M. Bauer 2020. ILLUSTRATED TYPE CATALOGUE OF THE “LOST” HERPETOLOGICAL COLLECTIONS OF MUSEU DO DUNDO, ANGOLA. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 162 (7): 379-440 - get paper here
  • Conradie W, Keates C, Verburgt L, Baptista NL, Harvey J, Júlio T, Neef G. 2022. Contributions to the herpetofauna of the Angolan Okavango-Cuando-Zambezi River drainages. Part 2: Lizards (Sauria), chelonians, and crocodiles. Amphibian & Reptile Conservation 16(2): 181–214 (e322) - get paper here
  • Marques MP, CerÍaco LMP, Buehler MD, Bandeira SA, Janota JM, Bauer AM 2020. A revision of the Dwarf Geckos, genus Lygodactylus (Squamata: Gekkonidae), from Angola, with the description of three new species. Zootaxa 4853 (3): 301–352 - get paper here
 
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