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PHYLLODACTYLUS 



PHYLLOOACTYLUS RUTTENI Hummel inck 



1547 Phyllodactylus rutteni Hummel inck, Studies Fauna Curajao, 1: 77- Type-locality: Isla 



Blanquilla, Venezuela. 

 1562 Phyllodactylus rutten i — D ixon. Southwestern Naturalist, 7: 2I7. 



Distribution; Islands on Venezuelan coast; La Tortuga, Los Hermanos, Blanquilla, Orchila, 

 Archipiélago de los Roques. 



PHYLLODACTYLUS TUBERCULOSUS Wiegmann 



18^'í Phyllodactylus tuberculosus Wieqmann, Nova Acta Acad. Leop. -Carol. , I7 (l): 241, pl. 18, figs. 



2-2a. Type-locality: California; restricted by Dixon, Herpetolog ica, I6, I56O, 4, to the 



village of California, Nicaragua. 

 1560 Phyllodactylus tuberculosus — Dixon, Herpetolog ica, I6: 4. 



Distribution: West coast of Mexico through Central America to Costa Rica. 



Content: Four subspecies, one ( saxat ills Dixon) extral imi tal. 



Key to the subspecies Clave de subespecies 



1. Fewer than 21 interorbital scales 2 1. Con menos de 21 escamas interorbitales 2 



With 24 interorbital scales i nger i Con 24 escamas interorbitales i nqer i 



2. Fewer than 28 scale rows across belly; 37 2. Con menos de 28 escamas a través de vien- 



or more paravertebral tubercles; venter tre; 37 ° "'^^ tubérculos paravertebrales; 



bright ochre maqnus vientre ocre brillante magnus 



More than '}0 scale rows across belly; fewer Mas de JO escamas a través del vientre; 

 than 35 paravertebral tubercles; venter tubérculos dorsales menos de 35j vientre 



lemon yellow tuberculosus amarillo limón tuberculosus 



Phyllodactylus tuberculosus tuberculosus (wiegmann) 



iq'í2 PhyllodactYlus eduardof i scher i Mertens, Zool. Anz., 148: 88. Type-locality: R'o Chilama, 



La Libertad, El Salvador. 

 1964 Phyllodactylus tuberculosus tuberculosus — D ¡xon, New Mexico St. Univ. Se i . Bull., 64 (l): 



22, figs. 1-4. 



Distribution: Pacific coastal areas, Guatemala to Costa Rica. 



Phyllodactylus tuberculosus i nqer i Dixon 



1964 Phyllodactylus tuberculosus inqeri Dixon, New Mex ico St. Univ. Sci . Bull., 64 (l): 36. 

 Type-locality: Stann Creek, British Honduras. 



Distribution: Coastal region of British Honduras. 



Phyllodactylus tuberculosus maqnus Taylor 



1942 Phyllodactylus maqnus Taylor, Univ. Kansas Sci. Bull., 28: 99, fig. 3. Type-locality: 



Tierra Colorado, Guerrero, Mexico. 

 1964 Phyllodactylus tuberculosus maqnus — Dixon. New Mexico St. Univ. Sci. Bull., 64 (l): 27. 



Distribution: Michoacan, Mexico to Guatemala. 



PHYLLODACTYLUS VENTRAL IS O'Shaughnessy 



187^ Phyllodactylus ventralis O'Shauqhnessy. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., (4) I6: 263. Type-locality: 



"Jamaica"; suggested that it might be Colombia or Venezuela by Dixon, Southwestern Naturalist, 

 7, 1962, 222. 



1935 Phyllodactylus muUeri Parker, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., (lO) 1$: 483. Type-locality: Patos island, 

 Venezuela. 



1962 Phyllodactylus ventral is — D ixon. Southwestern Naturalist, ]: 220, fig. 2. 



i str ibut pon: Northern Colombia and Venezuela, Margarita and Patos Islands. 



