Phyllodactylus cleofasensis RAMÍREZ-REYES, BARRAZA-SOLTERO, NOLASCO-LUNA, FLORES-VILLELA & ESCO BEDO-GALVÁN, 2021
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Phyllodactylus cleofasensis
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| Higher Taxa | Phyllodactylidae, Gekkota, Sauria, Squamata (lizards: geckos) |
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| Synonym | Phyllodactylus cleofasensis RAMÍREZ-REYES, BARRAZA-SOLTERO, NOLASCO-LUNA, FLORES-VILLELA & ESCO BEDO-GALVÁN 2021 Phyllodactylus tuberculosus — STEJNEGER 1899 (in part) Phyllodactylus lanei — ZWEIFEL 1960 (in part) Phyllodactylus tuberculosus saxatilis — MCDIARMID et al. 1976 (in part) Phyllodactylus tuberculosus saxatilis — CASAS-ANDREU 1992 Phyllodactylus tuberculosus saxatilis — WOOLRICH-PIÑA et al. 2016 |
| Distribution | Mexico (Maria Cleofas Island, Nayarit) Type locality: Mexico, Nayarit, María Cleofas Island (21.3095°N, 106.2340°W), 64 m elevation |
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| Types | Holotype: MZFC-HE 35623, Adult female, collected by Ilse K. Barraza-Soltero and Armando H. Escobedo-Galván on on 24–25 May 2018. Paratypes: MZFC-HE 35618-35622 and MZFC-HE 35624-35626, Six adult specimens and two juveniles. |
| Diagnosis | Diagnosis (and/or description): Phyllodactylus cleofasensis can be distinguished from all congeners by the following combination of characters: (1) Snout-vent length ranged from 44.8 to 77.0 mm (mean 59.5 mm), (2) has a white venter, variable dorsal coloration, and a greater number of paravertebral dorsal tubercles (mean 47.89), (3) paravertebral dorsal tubercles from head to tail (mean 47.89), (4) number of scales across the snout, starting from the 3rd labial scale (mean 26.5), and (5) number of longitudinal ventral scales from an imaginary line of the forelimbs to the cloacal opening (mean 61) (Ramírez-Reyes et al. 2021) |
| Comment | Diet: Orthopterans (Family Rhaphidophoridae) and coleopterans (Family Passalidae); they also consumed plant matter, arachnids, lepidopterans, scorpions (Centruroides elegans insularis), cockroaches (Blattodea: Pycnoscelus surinamensis) and remains of shed skin (Barraza-Soltero, 2019; Barraza-Soltero & Escobedo-Galván, 2020). Similar species: P. saxatilis |
| Etymology | Specific epithet is taken from the type locality María Cleofas Island, with the Latin suffix -ensis meaning, “originating from.” Specific epithet is masculine, in agreement with the gender of Phyllodactylus. |
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