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Morphological and molecular review of the Gekko diversity of Laos with descriptions of three new species

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Luu, Vinh Quang, Calame, Thomas, Nguyen, Truong Quang, Le, Minh Duc, Ziegler, Thomas (2015): Morphological and molecular review of the Gekko diversity of Laos with descriptions of three new species. Zootaxa 3986 (3): 279-306, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3986.3.2

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