Gekkonidae, Gray, 1825

Barrio-Amorós, César L. & Brewer-Carías, Charles, 2010, Venezuelan Guayana, with the description of five new species, Zootaxa 1942, pp. 1-68 : 41

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.5281/zenodo.195474

persistent identifier

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scientific name

Gekkonidae
status

 

Family Gekkonidae

Gonatodes is the most speciose South American sphaerodactyline genus. We assign the new species to Gonatodes following Avila-Pires (1995) by having free claws on fingers and toes projecting from two or four basal scales, dorsal scales granular, round pupil, and sexually dimorphic coloration.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Reptilia

Order

Squamata

Family

Gekkonidae

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