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The Re-discovery of live populations of Cnemaspis tropidogaster (Boulenger, 1885) (Sauria, Gekkonidae) from Sri Lanka after 120 years

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Thasun Amarasinghe, A. A., Campbell, Patrick D., Madawala, Majintha B., Botejue, W. Madhava S., Gabadage, Dinesh E., Silva, Anslem De, Suranjan Karunarathna, D. M. S. (2016): The Re-discovery of live populations of Cnemaspis tropidogaster (Boulenger, 1885) (Sauria, Gekkonidae) from Sri Lanka after 120 years. Zootaxa 4200 (3): 395-405, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4200.3.5

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