Tarentola substituta JOGER, 1984
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Tarentola substituta
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| Higher Taxa | Phyllodactylidae, Gekkota, Sauria, Squamata (lizards: geckos) |
| Subspecies | |
| Common Names | E: Cape Verde Wall Gecko |
| Synonym | Tarentola caboverdiana substituta JOGER 1984: 103 Tarentola delalandii — BOULENGER 1885: 199 (part.) Tarentola delalandii var. rudis — LOVERIDGE 1947: 334 (part.) Tarentola delalandei delalandei — DEKEYSER & VILLIERS 1951: 1152 (part.) Tarentola caboverdianus caboverdianus — SCHLEICH 1984 (part.) Tarentola caboverdiana substituta — SCHLEICH 1987: 46 Tarentola caboverdiana substituta — JOGER 1993 Tarentola (Makariogecko) caboverdiana substituta — CARRANZA et al. 2000 Tarentola caboverdiana substituta — KÖHLER et al. 2007 Tarentola substituta — VASCONCELOS et al. 2012: 347 Tarentola substituta — MORAVEC 2023 |
| Distribution | S. Vicente (Cape Verde Islands), Azores; probably introduced to Santo Antao Island Type locality: S. Vicente (Cape Verde Islands). |
| Reproduction | oviparous (not imputed, fide Zimin et al. 2022) |
| Types | Holotype: ZMH R01687; 3 paratypes ZMH R01686, ZMH R01688-1689. |
| Diagnosis | Diagnosis (substituta): Medium-sized gecko (maximum SVL 65.5 mm, 51.6 mm on average), eye/ear opening ratio between 1.5 and 2 (Schleich, 1987); ear–eye/eye–snout distance ratio ≤ 1 (Schleich, 1987). Eight to 11 supralabials and seven to nine infralabials (Schleich, 1987); eight to nine enlarged lamellae under the 4th finger; 146–167 midbody scales (Joger, 1984b); oval to round conical and saddle-like more-or-less keeled dorsal tubercles (Fig. 5B1) with 14–20 longitudinal lines (Schleich, 1987); no tubercles between the eye and the ear opening. Dorsal pattern with symmetrical butterfly- or X-shaped dark dorsal cross bands often lined with whitish tubercles posteriorly; vertebral stripe absent or reduced to a narrow light line (Figs 6B1, 7B1); cream to yellowish ventral parts; generally white labials; blackish eye iris with golden upperparts. Smaller scales than the other Tarentola species from clades B and C, and greater number of scales around midbody (Joger, 1984b). It differs from Tarentola from clade B from Desertas (clade B2 in Fig. 2) by its larger SVL and higher number of dorsal bands; four to five from the neck to the caudal region some- times surrounded by white tubercles (Joger, 1984b); and from Tarentola from Santo Antão (clade B3 in Fig. 2) by the head length being longer than the anterior limbs and by presenting a higher number of interorbital scales, usually 21 or more, and from specimens from clade C by a lower number of scales and lamellae under the fifth toe (Joger, 1984b); MORPHOBANK M44991–M44994, M55646–M55698 [VASCONCELOS et al. 2012]. |
| Comment | Synonymy after Filipe Sousa (pers. comm.) and VASCONCELOS et al. 2012. |
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