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REP T ILIA: SAURIA: GEKKONIDAE * LYGODACTYLUS 



LYGODACTYLUS Gray 



1864 Lygodactvlus Gray, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1864: 55. Type-species: Lygodactylus strigatus Gray 



" (= Lygodactylus capensi s Smi th) . 

 1880 Scalabotes Peters, Monats. Akad. Wiss. Berlin, 1880: 755. Type-species: Scalabotes thoitiensis 



Peters. 

 188^ Microscalabotes Boulenger, Ann. Mag. I^at. Hist., (5) 11: 174. Type-species: IVI i croscalabotes 

 Cowan i i Boulenger. 



Distribution: Tropical Africa and Malagasy Republic; Brazil. 



Content: About 3O species, of which only one occurs within limits of this work. 



Comment: Vanzolini, Arq. Zool. SSo Paulo, I7, I568, 63, includes this genus in the South American 

 fauna on the basis of an unnamed species from Bahia and Mato Grosso, Brazil. 



