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A NEW SPECIES OF GECKO DESCRIBED FOR ARABIA

A NEW SPECIES OF GECKO DESCRIBED FOR ARABIA

A new species of gecko with the scientific name Hemidactylus minutus was described from Oman and extreme eastern Yemen, by Raquel Vasconcelos (CIBIO-InBIO and CSIC) and Salvador Carranza (CSIC).

 

In the study recently published by Zootaxa, the researchers demonstrate that this small-size that lives in Oman and continental Yemen is different from the Arabian leaf-toed gecko from Socotra archipelago.


With the description of this new species, which came about as the result of more than a decade of work led by Carranza’s group, all native reptile species of Socotra are now known to be unique, such that this archipelago has one with the highest number of endemic reptiles in relation to its small size. As this work, funded by the Ministry of Environment and Climate Affairs, (www.omanherpetology.org), MEC-FEDER project (CGL2012-36970) and FCT (SFRH/BPD/79913/2011) grant, is still ongoing, the description of new species for Arabia and production of important information for conservation management should follow.

 

To read the original article, please visit: http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.3835.4.4.

 

Read the press release here.

2014-07-15
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