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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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Autores principales:	Scherz, Mark D., Daza, Juan D., Köhler, Jörn, Vences, Miguel, Glaw, Frank
Formato:	Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:	English
Publicado:	PeerJ Inc. 2017
Materias:	Taxonomy
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

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