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Species of gecko

Tropiocolotes wolfgangboehmei
Conservation status

Data Deficient  (IUCN 3.1)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Squamata
Family: Gekkonidae
Genus: Tropiocolotes
Species: T. wolfgangboehmei
Binomial name
Tropiocolotes wolfgangboehmei
Wilms, Shobrak & Wagner, 2010

Tropiocolotes wolfgangboehmei is a species of gecko of the family Gekkonidae from central Saudi Arabia. The specific epithet wolfgangboehmei honors Wolfgang Böhme [de] for his contributions in herpetology and for being the mentor of two of the authors who described T. wolfgangboehmei.

The species is only known by two specimens from Ath Thumamah, Saudi Arabia, the holotype (ZFMK 43668) and the paratype (ZFMK 87120).

Description

T. wolfgangboehmei is a small gecko with a maximum snout-vent length (SVL) of 29.4 mm (1.16 in). It possesses all the diagnostic features of Tropiocolotes such as digits (the most distal parts of a limb) slightly angularly bent without ornamentation covered below by a single series of transverse lamellae (thin plate-like structures very close to one another with open space between), a vertical pupil and uniform dorsal scales, among others. It also has two pairs of postmental shields and four scales in contact with the nostril.

It differs from other species by its smooth dorsal escalation, by the possession of clearly bi- or tricarinated subdigital scales and by the size of the two pairs of postmental shields (the second is much smaller than first).

References

  1. Wilms, T. (2012). "Tropiocolotes wolfgangboehmei". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2012: e.T199847A2613828. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2012.RLTS.T199847A2613828.en. Retrieved 8 September 2021.
  2. Tropiocolotes wolfgangboehmei at the Reptarium.cz Reptile Database. Accessed 8 September 2021.
  3. ^ Wilms, Thomas M.; Wagner, Philipp & Shobrak, Mohammed (2010). "A new species of the genus Tropiocolotes from Central Saudi Arabia (Reptilia: Sauria: Gekkonidae)". Bonn Zoological Bulletin. 57 (2): 275–280.
Taxon identifiers
Tropiocolotes wolfgangboehmei


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