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Goniurosaurus wangshu sp. nov., a new species of Tiger Gecko from Guangdong China (Squamata: Eublepharidae)

  • 1. Museum of Biology, School of Life Sciences, East China Normal University, Shanghai 200241, China.
  • 2. Department of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management, University of California, Berkeley, 94720, USA. https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6812-1878
  • 3. School of Life Sciences, East China Normal University, Shanghai 200241, China. https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2169-5628
  • 4. School of Life Sciences, East China Normal University, Shanghai 200241, China. https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4849-8429
  • 5. School of Information, University of Arizona, Tucson 85721, USA. https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1696-4886
  • 6. Department of Integrative Biology, University of Texas at Austin 78705, USA.

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Zhu, Xiao-Yu, Wu, Shi-Yang, Liu, Yi-Jiao, Bai, Yun, Román-Palacios, Cristian, Li, Zheng, He, Zhu-Qing (2022): Goniurosaurus wangshu sp. nov., a new species of Tiger Gecko from Guangdong China (Squamata: Eublepharidae). Zootaxa 5188 (6): 544-558, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5188.6.3

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