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Integrative revision of the Lygodactylus madagascariensis group reveals an unexpected diversity of little brown geckos in Madagascar's rainforest
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- 1. Institut de Systématique, Évolution, Biodiversité (ISYEB), Muséum national d'Histoire Naturelle, CNRS, Sorbonne Université, EPHE, Université des Antilles, Paris, France
- 2. CIBIO, Centro de Investigação em Biodiversidade e Recursos Genéticos, InBIO Laboratório Associado, Campus de Vairão, Universidade do Porto, 4485-661 Vairão, Portugal & Departamento de Biologia, Faculdade de Ciências, Universidade do Porto, 4099-002 Porto, Portugal & BIOPOLIS Program in Genomics, Biodiversity and Land Planning, CIBIO, Campus de Vairão, 4485-661 Vairão, Portugal acrottini@cibio.up.pt; https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8505-3050
- 3. Faculty of Biology / Biologiedidaktik, University Bielefeld, Universitätsstrasse 25, 33615 Bielefeld, Germany sebastiangehring@web.de; https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8266-2184
- 4. Mention Zoologie et Biodiversité Animale, Université d'Antananarivo, BP 906, Antananarivo, 101 Madagascar
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Vences, Miguel, Multzsch, Malte, Gippner, Sven, Miralles, Aurélien, Crottini, Angelica, Gehring, Philip-Sebastian, Rakotoarison, Andolalao, Ratsoavina, Fanomezana M., Glaw, Frank, Scherz, Mark D. (2022): Integrative revision of the Lygodactylus madagascariensis group reveals an unexpected diversity of little brown geckos in Madagascar's rainforest. Zootaxa 5179 (1): 1-61, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5179.1.1, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5179.1.1
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