Lygodactylus guibei Pasteur, 1965

Vences, Miguel, Multzsch, Malte, Gippner, Sven, Miralles, Aurélien, Crottini, Angelica, Gehring, Philip-Sebastian, Rakotoarison, Andolalao, Ratsoavina, Fanomezana M., Glaw, Frank & Scherz, Mark D., 2022, Integrative revision of the Lygodactylus madagascariensis group reveals an unexpected diversity of little brown geckos in Madagascar’s rainforest, Zootaxa 5179 (1), pp. 1-61 : 23-25

Lygodactylus guibei Pasteur, 1965

Lygodactylus (Domerguella) guibei Pasteur, 1965

Partial chresonymy

Lygodactylus guibei: Kluge (1991) ; Glaw & Vences (1992, 1994, 2007); Puente et al. (2005, 2009); Röll et al. (2010); Gippner et al. (2021)

Lygodactylus (Domerguella) guibei: Rösler (2000b) .

Name-bearing type: holotype MNHN 1993.60 from “Périnet (Est)” (=Andasibe), according to the original description.—Other types: According to the original description, there were two paratypes; we only were able to locate MNHN 1933.156 .—Etymology: Eponym for Jean Guibé .

Identity and Diagnosis. The holotype agrees well morphologically with most other individuals assigned to this species by relatively low longitudinal counts of dorsal scales (<200) and ventral scales (<100) while most individuals assigned to L. miops have higher counts (>200 />100). Despite some overlap in these variables, the differences between the two lineages seem to allow a distinction of most individuals. Furthermore, L. guibei does not reach the high INFL and NNS counts of some L. miops individuals, reaches larger body sizes, and males are characterized by more distinct lateral tubercles at the base of the tail, judging from the specimens morphologically examined herein. Specimens appear to have a rather indistinct dorsal pattern ( Fig. 14 ). Two photographed individuals have a conspicuous stripe-like row of dark spots on the chest ( Fig. 14C, E ) but this pattern is absent in most other individuals examined.

Distribution. L. guibei is known from several localities in the Northern Central East of Madagascar: (1) the type locality Andasibe, (2) Vohidrazana, (3) Moramanga, (4) Anjozorobe, (5) Mahasoa Forest (based on ND4 sequences of Gippner et al. 2021), and (6) Angozongahy on the west slope of the Makira Reserve.

Figures

FIGURE 14. Photos of specimens of L. guibei in life. A, female specimen ZSM 525/2009 (ZCMV 11210) from the western slope of the Makira Massif, photographed on 23 June 2009. B–C, male and D–E, female, from Andasibe, in dorsolateral and ventral views, photographed 2003, not attributable to a voucher specimen and not genotyped, and thus only tentatively attributable to the species.