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  Zoologica ScriptaVolume 37 Issue 4, Pages 355 - 366 Published Online: 28 Jun 2008 Journal compilation © 2010 The Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters Published on behalf of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters and the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
Abstract | References | Full Text: HTML, PDF (Size: 1942K) | Related Articles | Citation Tracking  Out of the blue: a novel, trans-Atlantic clade of geckos (Gekkota, Squamata) Copyright Journal compilation © 2008 The Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters Gamble, T., Bauer, A. M., Greenbaum, E. & Jackman, T. R. (2008). Out of the blue: a novel, trans-Atlantic clade of geckos (Gekkota, Squamata). —Zoologica Scripta, 37, 355–366. ABSTRACTPhylogenetic relationships among gekkotan lizards were estimated from five nuclear protein-coding genes in separate and combined analyses using maximum parsimony, maximum likelihood and Bayesian analyses. All analyses recovered a monophyletic trans-Atlantic gecko clade (Phyllodactylidae) consisting of the genera Asaccus, Haemodracon, Homonota, Phyllodactylus, Phyllopezus, Ptyodactylus, Tarentola and Thecadactylus. No other phylogenetic or taxonomic hypotheses have proposed linking these genera, which have been consistently grouped with other taxa outside of the clade. In this paper, we determine the relationships of this new clade to other major gekkotan groups, evaluate previous phylogenetic hypotheses regarding constituent members of this novel clade, and critically examine the use of historically important morphological characters in gekkotan systematics as they relate to this novel clade, specifically — phalangeal formulae, hyoid morphology and external structure of the toe-pads. Submitted: 3 December 2007 | 
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