- Title
- Systematic revision of Afrogecko ansorgii (Boulenger, 1907)(Sauria: Gekkonidae) from western Angola
- Creator
- Lobón-Rovira, Javier, Conradie, Werner C, Pinto, Pedro V, Keates, Chad, Edwards, Shelley, du Plessis, Anton, Branch, William R
- Subject
- To be catalogued
- Date
- 2022
- Type
- text
- Type
- article
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10962/461550
- Identifier
- vital:76212
- Identifier
- xlink:href="https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5124.4.1"
- Description
- Here we provide the first phylogenetic analysis that include Afrogecko ansorgii and a detailed morphological comparison with other species of leaf-toed geckos. For this purpose, we used two mitochondrial (16S, ND2) and four nuclear (RAG1, RAG2, CMOS, PDC) genes to produce a robust phylogenetic reconstruction. This allowed us to show that A. ansorgii is not related as previously believed to circum-Indian Ocean leaf-toed geckos and is rather more closely related to other Malagasy leaf-toed geckos. Additionally, we explore and compare osteological variation in A. ansorgii skulls through High Resolution X-ray Computed Tomography with previously published material. This allowed us to describe herein a new genus, Bauerius gen. nov., and additionally provide a detailed redescription of the species (including the first description of male material), supplementing the limited original description and type series, which consisted of only two females.
- Format
- computer, online resource, application/pdf, 1 online resource (29 pages), pdf
- Publisher
- Europe PubMed Central
- Language
- English
- Relation
- Zootaxa, Lobon-Rovira, J., Conradie, W., Pinto, P.V., Keates, C., Edwards, S., Plessis, A.D. and Branch, W.R., 2022. Systematic revision of Afrogecko ansorgii (Boulenger, 1907)(Sauria: Gekkonidae) from western Angola. Zootaxa, 5124(4), pp.401-430, Zootaxa volume 5124 number 4 p. 401 2022 1175-5334
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