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Off the scale: a new species of fish-scale gecko (Squamata: Gekkonidae: Geckolepis) with exceptionally large scales
The gecko genus Geckolepis, endemic to Madagascar and the Comoro archipelago, is taxonomically challenging. One reason is its members ability to autotomize a large portion of their scales when grasped or touched, most likely to escape predation. Based on an integrative taxonomic approach including e...
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| Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
| Lenguaje: | English |
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PeerJ Inc.
2017
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| Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5299998/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28194313 http://dx.doi.org/10.7717/peerj.2955 |