Tarentola panousei PASTEUR, 1959
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Tarentola panousei
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| Higher Taxa | Phyllodactylidae, Gekkota, Sauria, Squamata (lizards: geckos) |
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| Synonym | Tarentola panousei PASTEUR 1959 Tarentola panousei — BONS 1959 Tarentola ephippiata – BONS 1959 Tarentola hoggarensis panousei — PASTEUR 1960 Tarentola hoggarensis panousei – PASTEUR & BONS 1960 Tarentola ephippiata – GRANDISON 1961 (see above) Tarentola ephippiata – SALVADOR & PERIS 1976 Tarentola ephippiata hoggarensis – JOGER 1984 Tarentola ephippiata – JOGER & BISCHOFF 1989 Tarentola ephippiata hoggarensis – BONS & GENIEZ 1996 Tarentola cf. ephippiata (‘T. ephippiata-Gruppe’) – BÖHME et al. 2001 Tarentola hoggarensis – HERRMANN & HERRMANN 2003 Tarentola ephippiata hoggarensis – COLACICCO 2015 (in part) Tarentola ephippiata hoggarensis – SOW et al. 2015 Tarentola hoggarensis – MARTÍNEZ DEL MÁRMOL et al. 2019 (in part) Tarentola panousei — KOPPETSCH 2022 |
| Distribution | S Morocco, Mauritania, Western Sahara Type locality: Hamada du Dra, Bassin du Draa moyen [S Morocco]; Neotpye locality: 20 km south of Aouinet-Torkoz, Oued Torkoz, at its mouth into the Oued Dra (28°29.00’ N, 09°51.17’ W), SW Morocco. |
| Reproduction | oviparous |
| Types | Neotype: ZFMK 73503, subadult female, collected by Hans-Werner Herrmann, on 4 October 2000; designated by Koppetsch 2022. |
| Diagnosis | Diagnosis: A relatively large (up to 85.4 mm SVL) member of the Tarentola ephippiata complex with a lumpy habitus, which is distinguished from its former conspecific T. hoggarensis (Figure 5A) by its greater snout-vent length (max. 85 mm vs. 73 mm), a lower number of gular scales (27–31 vs. 29–37), and often a higher tail width/snout-vent length ratio (0.13–0.16 vs. 0.09–0.16). Ear openings small, sometimes concealed, with a serrated (vs. smooth) anterior margin. Dorsal tubercles irregularly arranged (vs. in longitudinal rows) and only indistinctly differentiated from the surrounding scalation. Colour pattern more or less uniformly greyish beige with, in adults, only four indistinct pale dorsal blotches and a postocular dark stripe reaching the axillary region. T. panousei can be distinguished from T. ephippiata by the presence of indistinct and flat dorsal tubercles (vs. slightly keeled), and from T. senegambiae by a lower number of interorbital scales (11–15 vs. 14–18) and a shorter snout-vent length (maximum 85 mm vs. 129 mm). Less marked is a different arrangement of the rostral/nasal contact (less broad and more pointy in some T. panousei), the shape of the basal lamellae at the fourth toe (in some T. panousei replaced by scale row and not uniform), and the degree of ossification of the supraocular lamina (no clear differences). For additional differences in scalation see Table 2. (Koppetsch 2022: 9). |
| Comment | Similar species: Species has been confused with T. annularis and T. parvicarinata (at least in Mali). Synonymy: after Koppetsch 2022. GRANDISON 1961 synonymized T. panousei with Tarentola ephippiata but Koppetsch 2022 revalidated the species again. |
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