Lygodactylus depressus SCHMIDT, 1919

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Higher Taxa	Gekkonidae, Gekkota, Sauria, Squamata (lizards: geckos)
Subspecies
Common Names	E: Zaire Dwarf Gecko
Synonym	Lygodactylus depressus SCHMIDT 1919: 466 Lygodactylus picturatus depressus — LOVERIDGE 1947: 227 Lygodactylus picturatus depressus — WERMUTH 1965: 106 Lygodactylus depressus — KLUGE 1993 Lygodactylus (Lygodactylus) depressus — RÖSLER 2000: 92 Lygodactylus depressus — RÖLL et al. 2010 Lygodactylus depressus — LOBÓN-ROVIRA et al. 2023: 24
Distribution	Congo (Brazzaville), C (E?) Democratic Republic of the Congo (Zaire), Central African Republic, Cameroon Type locality: Medje, Ituri Forest, Belgian Congo.
Reproduction	oviparous
Types	Holotype: AMNH 10345
Diagnosis	Additional details, e.g. a detailed description or comparisons (3508 characters), are available for collaborators and contributors. Please contact us for details.
Comment	Lygodactylus depressus is only known from century-old specimens, and is a biogeographic outlier compared to its hypothesized closest relatives (LOBÓN-ROVIRA et al. 2023). Distribution: for a map of localities see Lobón-Rovira et al. 2023: 18 (Fig. 6).
References	Chirio, L. & Lebreton, M. 2007. Atlas des reptiles du Cameroun. MNHN, IRD, Paris 688 pp. Chirio, Laurent and Ivan Ineich 2006. Biogeography of the reptiles of the Central African Republic. African Journal of Herpetology 55(1):23-59. - get paper here Lobón-Rovira, J., Bauer, A. M., Vaz Pinto, P., Trape, J. F., Conradie, W., Kusamba, C., ... & Greenbaum, E. 2023. Integrative revision of the Lygodactylus gutturalis (Bocage, 1873) complex unveils extensive cryptic diversity and traces its evolutionary history. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, zlad123 - 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 Pasteur,G. 1964. Recherches sur l'évolution des lygodactyles, lézards Afro-Malagaches actuels. Trav. Inst. Scient. Chérif., Ser. Zool., No. 29: 1-132 [1965] 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 Schmidt, Karl Patterson 1919. Contributions to the Herpetology of the Belgian Congo based on the Collection of the American Congo Expedition, 1909-1915. Part I: turtles, crocodiles, lizards, and chamaeleons. Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist. 39 (2): 385-624 - get paper here
External links	IUCN Red List National Center for Biotechnology Information Google images

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