Taxonomic revision of the Tropiocolotes nattereri (Squamata, Gekkonidae) species complex, with the description of a new species from Israel, Jordan and Saudi Arabia

Marco Antônio Ribeiro-Júnior; Karin Tamar; Erez Maza; Morris Flecks; Philipp Wagner; Boaz Shacham; Marta Calvo; Philippe Geniez; Pierre André Crochet; Claudia Koch; Shai Meiri

doi:10.1111/zsc.12532

Taxonomic revision of the Tropiocolotes nattereri (Squamata, Gekkonidae) species complex, with the description of a new species from Israel, Jordan and Saudi Arabia

Marco Antônio Ribeiro-Júnior^*, Karin Tamar, Erez Maza, Morris Flecks, Philipp Wagner, Boaz Shacham, Marta Calvo, Philippe Geniez, Pierre André Crochet, Claudia Koch, Shai Meiri

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We examined the taxonomy of the minute desert geckos of the Tropiocolotes nattereri species complex using the largest morphological sampling, and the first molecular assessment of intraspecific diversity within this complex. We examined variation in mitochondrial and nuclear markers (12S, ND2, c-mos and MC1R) of 30 samples and analyzed the external morphology of 202 specimens, from across the entire distribution range of the complex from Egypt, Israel, Jordan and Saudi Arabia. We recognize two species under the name T. nattereri. We thus hereby describe a new species, T. yomtovi sp. n., and we redefine and redescribe T. nattereri, for which we designate a neotype. The species diversity in the genus Tropiocolotes increases to 15.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	288-309
Number of pages	22
Journal	Zoologica Scripta
Volume	51
Issue number	3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1111/zsc.12532
State	Published - May 2022

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Middle East
Palearctic naked-toed geckos
Saharo-Arabian reptiles
reptiles
taxonomy

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Ribeiro-Júnior, M. A., Tamar, K., Maza, E., Flecks, M., Wagner, P., Shacham, B., Calvo, M., Geniez, P., Crochet, P. A., Koch, C., & Meiri, S. (2022). Taxonomic revision of the Tropiocolotes nattereri (Squamata, Gekkonidae) species complex, with the description of a new species from Israel, Jordan and Saudi Arabia. Zoologica Scripta, 51(3), 288-309. https://doi.org/10.1111/zsc.12532

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Taxonomic revision of the Tropiocolotes nattereri (Squamata, Gekkonidae) species complex, with the description of a new species from Israel, Jordan and Saudi Arabia

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