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Gona.tod/ss fa.lconsiis±s Shreve, 1947 

 Distribution: Aparently endemic from Falcon: Cataratas de Hueque, 

 Curimagua (both localities are within the Municipio Petit, Sierra de San 

 Luis); Cueva de Chipare (Municipio Colina). 



Habitats: Tropophilous deciduous low and median forest; tropophilous 

 semi-deciduous seasonal forest; tropophilous basimontane deciduous 

 forest; coastal cloud forest. 

 References: Donoso-Barros (1968. Carib. J. Sci., 8 (3-4 ): 105-122) ; Roze 



(1963. Publ Ocas. Mus . Cienc. Nat. Caracas, ser. zool . , 5:no pagination 

 numbers); Mi jares-Urrutia & Arends (1995. Amphibia-Reptilia, 16:203-210); 

 Peters & Donoso-Barros (1970. U. S. Natnl . Mus. Bull., 297:1-293); Shreve 



(1947. Idem); Vanzolini (1968a. Arq. Zool., S. Paulo, 17(l):l-84); 

 Vanzolini (1968b. Arq. Zool., 5. Paulo, 17 (2 ) : 85-112 ) . 



Gonatodss vittatiis ( Lichtenstein, 1856) 

 Distribution: This small gecko inhabit in arid and semiarid lowlands or 

 in around and within the human habitation inclusive in border of forested 

 areas: Coro (Municipio Miranda); Pedregal-El Jobo (Municipio Democracia) ; 

 El Mene-San Lorenzo (Municipio Acosta) ; near Santa Ana (Municipio 

 Carirubana, Peninsula de Paraguana) ; Cerro Santa Ana, Monte Cano, near 

 San Jose de Cocodite (all this localities within the Municipio Falcon, 

 Peninsula de Paraguana) ; Refugio de Fauna de Cuare, Sanare, Cayo Abajo 



(all this localities within the Municipio Monsenor Iturriza) ; Cataratas 

 de Hueque (Municipio Petit), La Vela, near Chipare (both localities 

 within the Municipio Colina) . 



Habitats: Littoral xerophilous scrub; Littoral psammophilous and 

 halophilous grassland; thorny xerophilous scrub; tropophilous deciduous 

 low and median forest; tropophilous basimontane deciduous forest; 

 tropophilous semi-deciduous seasonal forest. 



References: Bisbal (1990. Idem); Marcuzzi (1950. Mem. Soc. Cienc. Nat. La 

 Salle, 19 (53) : 85-146) ; Rivero-Blanco & Dixon (1979. Idem); Vanzolini 



(1968b. Idem); Shreve (1947. Idem). 



Seanldactylus cf. mabouia. (Moreau de Jones, 1818) 

 Distribution: Only one specimen in collection from La Vela (Municipio 

 Colina ) . 



Habitats: Thorny xerophilous scrub. 



Remarks: The identity of the only one specimen is tentatively assigned to 

 this species waiting for additional material. However this represent the 

 first record of the genus from Falcon. 

 References : None . 



IiSp±doblephaj:±s montecsnoensis MarJcezich & Taphorn, 1994 

 Distribution: Near Cueva Piedra Honda, near Miraca (all this localities 

 within the Municipio Falcon, Peninsula de Paraguana) . 



Habitat: Thorny xerophilous scrub ("Tropical dry forest", sensu original 

 description, see References). 

 References: Markezich & Taphorn (1994. Herpetologica, 50(1):7-14). 



Phyiiodactyias ventraiis O ' Shaughnessy, 1875 

 Distribution: A not uncommon gecko around and within the human 

 habitation: Coro (Municipio Miranda) ; Las Cumaraguas (Municipio Falcon, 

 Peninsula de Paraguana) ; Mene de Mauroa (Municipio Mauroa) ; Taratara 

 (Municipio Sucre, Sierra de San Luis); La Vela (Municipio Colina); La 

 Cebolleta (Municipio ?). 



Habitats: Littoral xerophilous scrub; thorny xerophilous scrub; 

 tropophilous deciduous and semi-deciduous scrub. 



