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Lygodactylus rarus PASTEUR & BLANC, 1973

IUCN Red List - Lygodactylus rarus - Near Threatened, NT

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Higher TaxaGekkonidae, Gekkota, Sauria, Squamata (lizards: geckos)
Subspecies 
Common NamesE: Thin Dwarf Gecko 
SynonymLygodactylus (Domerguella) rarus PASTEUR & BLANC 1973: 167
Lygodactylus rarus — KLUGE 1993
Lygodactylus rarus — GLAW & VENCES 1994: 285
Lygodactylus (Domerguella) rarus — RÖSLER 2000: 94
Lygodactylus rarus — PUENTE et al. 2009: 23
Lygodactylus rarus — RÖLL et al. 2010
Lygodactylus rarus — GIPPNER et al. 2021 
DistributionN Madagascar (Ankarana Massif, Mangindrano [Tsaratanana])

Type locality: Karst of Ambilobe, Massif de l’Ankarana, Eastern slope.  
Reproductionoviparous 
TypesHolotype: MNHN-RA 1990.0006 (given as “collection des auteurs”) 
DiagnosisDiagnosis: A rather large-sized endemic of limestone karst areas of northern Madagascar, characterized by a long-legged, long-tailed and slender appearance. It can clearly be assigned to the L. madagascariensis group by sharing the characters listed in the group definition above. It differs from all species in the L. madagascariensis group by the presence (vs. absence) of broad crossbands in the tail, of alternate light grey/ dark grey colour. Furthermore distinguished from L. miops and especially L. guibei by the absence (vs. presence) of dorsolateral tubercles and spiny tubercles at the tail base. Further distinguished from the sympatric L. expectatus by its non-enlarged dorsolateral scales (vs. enlarged), absence of dark spots on the neck (vs. presence), and larger size (adult SVL 31.6–36.5 mm vs. 27.0–29.7 mm). (PUENTE et al. 2009) 
CommentHabitat: karstic limestone massif of Ankarana. Specimens were active during the day, on big karstic rocks in an area with reduced vegetation (Puente et al. 2009). 
Etymologyderived from Latin rarus (rare, unusual). 
References
  • Gippner, Sven, Scott L Travers, Mark D Scherz, Timothy J Colston, Mariana L Lyra, Ashwini V Mohan, Malte Multzsch, Stuart V. Nielsen, Loïs Rancilhac, Frank Glaw, Aaron M. Bauer, Miguel Vences 2021. A Comprehensive Phylogeny of Dwarf Geckos of the Genus Lygodactylus, with Insights into Their Systematics and Morphological Variation. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 107311 - get paper here
  • Glaw ,F. & Vences, M. 1994. A Fieldguide to the Amphibians and Reptiles of Madagascar. Vences & Glaw Verlag, Köln (ISBN 3-929449-01-3)
  • Krüger, Jens 2001. Die madagassischen Gekkoniden. Teil II: Die Geckos der Gattung Lygodactylus GRAY 1864 (Reptilia: Sauria: Gekkonidae). Gekkota 3: 3-28
  • Pasteur, G., and C. P. Blanc. 1973. Nouvelles études sur les lygodactyles (sauriens gekkonidés). l. Données récentes sur Domerguella et sur ses rapports avec la phytogéographie malgache. Bulletin de la Société Zoologique de France, 98:165-174.
  • PUENTE, MARTA; FRANK GLAW, DAVID R. VIEITES & MIGUEL VENCES 2009. Review of the systematics, morphology and distribution of Malagasy dwarf geckos, genera Lygodactylus and Microscalabotes (Squamata: Gekkonidae). Zootaxa 2103: 1-76 - get paper here
  • Röll, Beate; Heike Pröhl, Klaus-Peter Hoffmann 2010. Multigene phylogenetic analysis of Lygodactylus dwarf geckos (Squamata: Gekkonidae). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 56 (1): 327-335 - 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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