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Clarifying a male color morph of Sphaerodactylus macrolepis Günther, 1859 and resolving the taxonomic confusion on Saint Croix
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- 1. Department of Chemical & Biological Engineering, Princeton University, William Street, Princeton, New Jersey 08544, USA ag3200@princeton.edu; https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8441-1330 & Department of Molecular Biology, Princeton University, Washington Road, Princeton, New Jersey 08544, USA & Milwaukee Public Museum, 800 W. Wells Street, Milwaukee, Wisconsin 53233, USA
- 2. Molecular and Genomic Pathology Lab, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, 200 Lothrop Street, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA 15213
- 3. Milwaukee Public Museum, 800 W. Wells Street, Milwaukee, Wisconsin 53233, USA & School of Life Sciences, Arizona State University, 427 E. Tyler Mall, Tempe, Arizona 85281, USA
- 4. Department of Biological Sciences, Louisiana State University Shreveport, 1 University Place, Shreveport, Louisiana 71115, USA stuart.nielsen@lsus.edu; https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3114-1469 & Department of Natural History, Florida Museum of Natural History, 1659 Museum Road, Gainesville, Florida 32611, USA Department of Biological Sciences, Marquette University, P.O. Box 1881, Milwaukee, Wisconsin 53233, USA anthony.gamble@marquette.edu; https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0204-8003
- 5. Milwaukee Public Museum, 800 W. Wells Street, Milwaukee, Wisconsin 53233, USA
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Griffing, Aaron H., Keating, Shannon E., Pinto, Brendan J., Nielsen, Stuart V., Gamble, Tony (2023): Clarifying a male color morph of Sphaerodactylus macrolepis Günther, 1859 and resolving the taxonomic confusion on Saint Croix. Zootaxa 5343 (3): 273-280, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5343.3.3, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5343.3.3
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