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Earning your stripes: a second species of striped gecko in the New Zealand gecko genus Toropuku (Gekkota: Diplodactylidae)

  • 1. Department of Conservation, National Office, PO Box 10-420, Wellington 6143, New Zealand.
  • 2. Florida Museum of Natural History, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32601, USA.
  • 3. Department of Biology, Villanova University, 800 Lancaster Avenue, Villanova, PA 19085, USA.

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Hitchmough, Rodney A., Nielsen, Stuart V., Bauer, Aaron M. (2020): Earning your stripes: a second species of striped gecko in the New Zealand gecko genus Toropuku (Gekkota: Diplodactylidae). Zootaxa 4890 (4): 578-588, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4890.4.9

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