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A phylogeny of the enigmatic Madagascan geckos of the genus Uroplatus (Squamata: Gekkonidae)

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  • 1. Department of Biology, Villanova University, 800 Lancaster Ave., Villanova, PA 19085, USA. E-mail: eli.greenbaum@villanova.edu, aaron.bauer@villanova.edu, todd.jackman@villanova.edu Technical University of Braunschweig, Division of Evolutionary Biology, Zoological Institute, Spielmannstr. 8, D-38106 Braunschweig, Germany. E-mail: m.vences@tu-bs.de Zoologische Staatssammlung, Münchhausenstr. 21, D-81247 München, Germany. E-mail: Frank.Glaw@zsm.mwn.de Corresponding author

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Greenbaum, Eli, Bauer, Aaron M., Jackman, Todd R., Vences, Miguel, Glaw, Frank (2007): A phylogeny of the enigmatic Madagascan geckos of the genus Uroplatus (Squamata: Gekkonidae). Zootaxa 1493 (1): 41-51, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.1493.1.2, URL: https://biotaxa.org/Zootaxa/article/view/zootaxa.1493.1.2

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