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repulía: SAURIA: GEKKONIDAE * 'At * COLEONYX 



COLEONYX Gray 



1845 Coleonyx Gray, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., (l) 16: 162. Type-species: Coleonyx eleqans Gray. 

 1863 Brachvdactvlus Peters (preoccupied by Brachydactylus Smith, I835), Monats. Akad. Wiss. Berlin, 

 I863: 41. Type-species: Brachydactylus m i tratus Peters. 



Distribution; Southwestern North America and Central America. 



Content: Twelve species and subspecies, all but two of which are extral im ¡ tal. 



Key to the species Clave de especies 



1. Claws on digits completely hidden by termi- 1. Uña de los dígitos completamente oculatas en 



nal sheath eleqans vainas terminales eleqans 



Claws on digits extended beyond terminal Uña de los dígitos extendidas desde la vaina 



sheath, clearly visible mi tratus y claramente visibles mi tratus 



COLEONYX ELEGANS Gray 



1845 Coleonyx eleqans Gray, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., (l) I6: I63. Type-locality: Belize, British 

 Honduras. 



Distribution: Mexico to Honduras and Guatemala. 



Content: Two subspecies, one ( nemoralis Klauber) extral imi tal. 



Coleonyx eleqans eleqans Gray 



I85I G fymnodactylusl scapularis A. Dumlril, in Duméril, Bibron, and Dumlril, Cat. Method. Coll. 

 Kept. Mus. hnst. Nat. Paris; 45- Type-locality: Peten, Guatemala; restricted by Smith 

 and Taylor, Univ. Kansas Sci. Bull., 33, 1950, 3I8, to La Libertad, Guatemala. 



I856 Gymnodactylus coleonyx A. Dumlril (substitute name for Coleonyx eleqans Gray), Arch. Mus. 

 Hist. Nat., Paris, 8: 483. 



1945 Coleonyx eleqans eleqang — Klauber, Trans. San Diego Soc. Nat. Hist., 10: IJl- 



Distribution: From southern Mexico (central Veracruz, Oaxaca, Tabasco, Yucatán, Chiapas, 

 Quintana Roo), southward to Honduras and northern Guatemala. 



COLEONYX MITRATUS (Peters] 



I863 Brachydactylus mi tratus Peters, Monats. Akad. Wiss. Berlin, 1863: 42. Type-locality: Costa 



Rica. 

 1885 Eublepharis dovii Boulenqer. Cat. Liz. Brit. Mus., 1; 233. Type-locality: Panama. 

 1928 Coleonyx m i tratus — Schm idt. Zool. Ser. Field Mus. Nat. Hist., 12: I94. 

 igSo Coleonyx m i tratus — Baylor. Univ. Kansas Sci. Bull., 38: I6, fig. 1. 



Distribution: El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica and Panama. 



