Pantodactylus parkeri, RUIBAL

Doan, Tiffany M., 2003, A new phylogenetic classification for the gymnophthalmid genera Cercosaura, Pantodactylus and Prionodactylus (Reptilia: Squamata), Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 137 (1), pp. 101-115 : 105

PANTODACTYLUS PARKERI RUIBAL

Pantodactylus schreibersii albostrigatus: Parker (part), 1931: 286.

Euspondylus champsonatus: Burt & Burt (part), 1931: 335.

Pantodactylus schreibersii parkeri Ruibal, 1952: 518 .

Pantodactylus parkeri: Tedesco & Cei, 1999: 314 .

To assess the assertion of Tedesco & Cei (1999) about the specific status of P. parkeri , I examined 61 morphological characters to determine if a notable difference between this species and P. schreibersii existed. Although I found colour and pattern differences and overlapping meristic variation in several characters, the differences between the species for external morphology were few ( Table 2). No external morphological character differences appeared to be fixed; however, based on the significant, presumably fixed osteological differences discovered by Tedesco & Cei (1999), I continue to recognize this taxon as a distinct species.