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A new species of Gehyra Gray, 1834 (Squamata, Gekkonidae) from the Loyalty Islands and Vanuatu, and phylogenetic relationships in the genus Gehyra in Melanesia

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  • 1. Zoologisches Forschungsmuseum Alexander Koenig, Adenauerallee 160, D-53113 Bonn (Germany)
  • 2. Muséum d'Histoire naturelle, case postale 6434, CH-1211 Geneva 6 (Switzerland)
  • 3. Frielinger Weg 25A, D-59174 Kamen (Germany)
  • 4. Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, CNRS UMR 7205, Origine, structure et évolution de la biodiversité, Département de Systématique et Évolution, case postale 30, 57 rue Cuvier, F-75231 Paris cedex 5 (France)

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Flecks, Morris, Schmitz, Andreas, Böhme, Wolfgang, Henkel, Friedrich Wilhelm, Ineich, Ivan (2012): A new species of Gehyra Gray, 1834 (Squamata, Gekkonidae) from the Loyalty Islands and Vanuatu, and phylogenetic relationships in the genus Gehyra in Melanesia. Zoosystema 34 (2): 203-221, DOI: 10.5252/z2012n2a1, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.5252/z2012n2a1

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