Madagascar Ground Gecko

Figure 2.Paratypes of Paroedura hordiesi: (A) adult male ZSM 531/2000 (SVL 53.5 mm) in dorsolateral view; (B) adult female ZSM 2113/2007 (SVL 46.1 mm) in dorsal view; (C) subadult ZSM 2107/2007 in lateral view; (D) juvenile (ZSM 2106/2007, SVL 28.1 mm) and subadult (ZSM 2107/2007, SVL 35.2 mm) in dorsolateral view.

Figure 4.Drawings of hemipenis of Paroedura hordiesi (ZSM 343/2004): (A) asulcal view; (B) lateral view; (C) detailed view on cranial lobe.

Figure 5.Paroedura karstophila from its type locality Tsingy de Namoroka (A), observed in the night of 10 September 2012 around 22:50 (not collected), and Paroedura homalorhina from its type locality Ankarana (B).

Figure 1.Maximum Likelihood tree inferred from 664 bp of the mitochondrial cytochrome oxidase subunit 1 (cox1) gene, showing the differentiation between Paroedura species. Note that this single-gene tree is not suitable to reconstruct the basal relationships of these geckos but is rather shown to document the large genetic divergences among all of them, and of Paroedura hordiesi to its relatives. Numbers behind species names are sample numbers as given in Nagy et al. (2012) and Koubová et al. (2014), as well as GenBank accession numbers of the respective sequences.

Active on forest floor at night

Figure 3.Dorsal view of the male holotype of Paroedura hordiesi in preservative (ZSM 342/2004).