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Ptyodactylus Owen 1817

  • 1. Zoologie et Biologie animale, Faculté des Sciences, Université de Lomé, BP 1515, Lomé (Togo) h _ segniagbeto @ yahoo. fr
  • 2. Laboratoire de Paludologie et Zoologie médicale, Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD), Centre de Dakar, BP 1386, Dakar (Sénégal) jean-francois. trape @ ird. fr
  • 3. Zoologie et Biologie animale, Faculté des Sciences, Université de Lomé, BP 1515, Lomé (Togo) kafiade @ gmail. com
  • 4. Naturkunde, Leibniz Institute for Evolution and Biodiversity Science, Invalidenstr. 43, 10115 Berlin (Germany) mo. roedel @ mfn-berlin. de
  • 5. Institut de Systématique, Évolution, Biodiversité, ISYEB - UMR 7205 - CNRS, MNHN, UPMC, EPHE, national d'Histoire naturelle, Sorbonne Universités, Département de Systématique & Évolution, case postale 30, 57 rue Cuvier, F- 75005 Paris (France) ohler @ mnhn. fr, adubois @ mnhn. fr, pdavid @ mnhn. fr
  • 6. Royal Museum for Central Africa, Department of African Zoology, Vertebrate Section, Leuvensesteenweg 13, 3080 Tervuren (Belgium) danny. meirte @ africamuseum. be
  • 7. Zoologie et Biologie animale, Faculté des Sciences, Université de Lomé, BP 1515, Lomé (Togo)
  • 8. Delta Ecology and Biodiversity Conservation Unit, Department of Applied and Environmental Biology, Rivers State University of Science and Tecnology PMB 5080, Port Harcourt, Rivers State (Nigeria) fapetrozzi @ gmail. com, lucamlu @ tin. it

Description

Genus Ptyodactylus Owen, 1817

Ptyodactylus ragazzi Anderson, 1898 (Fig. 13)

Ptyodactylus hasselquistii var. ragazzii Anderson, 1898: 69.

MATERIAL EXAMINED. — 12 specimens: Togo. Dapaong, coll. JFT 2300; Nanergou, RMCA 73.009.R.0023-0031; no precise locality, ZMB 16312 and 16622.

HABITATS AND DISTRIBUTION. — It is a species occurring in Sudanese savannah and in the dry forests. This species was reported to occur in Togo as Ptylodactylus hasselquistii togoensis by Tornier (1901) from the locality of Zogbegan. This latter taxon was put into synonymy with Ptylodactylus ragazzi Anderson, 1898 by Heimes (1987). The species was also recorded in Togo by Loveridge (1947) and Bauer et al. (2006).

Notes

Published as part of Segniagbeto, Gabriel Hoinsoude, Trape, Jean-François, Afiademanyo, Komlan M., Rödel, Mark-Oliver, Ohler, Annemarie, Dubois, Alain, David, Patrick, Meirte, Danny, Glitho, Isabelle Adolé, Petrozzi, Fabio & Luiselli, Luca, 2015, Checklist of the lizards of Togo (West Africa), with comments on systematics, distribution, ecology, and conservation, pp. 381-402 in Zoosystema 37 (2) on page 394, DOI: 10.5252/z2015n2a7, http://zenodo.org/record/4577806

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References

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  • TORNIER G. 1901. - Die Crocodile, Schildkroten und Eidechsen in Togo. Archiv fur Naturgeschichte (Beiheft) 1901: 65 - 88.
  • HEIMES P. 1987. - Beitrag zur Systematik der Facherfinger (Sauria: Gekkonidae: Ptyodactylus). Salamandra, 23: 212 - 235.
  • LOVERIDGE A. 1947. - Revision of the African lizards of the family Gekkonidae. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 98: 1 - 469, pl. 1 - 7.
  • BAUER A. M., TCHIBOZO S., PAUWELS O. S. G. & LEN- GLET G. 2006. - A review of the gekkotan lizards of Benin, with the description of a new species of Hemidactylus (Squamata: Gekkonidae). Zootaxa 1242: 1 - 20.