Reptilia, Sauria, Sphaerodactylidae, Lepidoblepharis conolepis Avila-Pires, 2001: distribution extension in northern Ecuador

Carolina Reyes; Gorki Ríos Alvear

doi:10.15560/12.5.1983

Check List 12(5): e19585, doi: 10.15560/12.5.1983

Reptilia, Sauria, Sphaerodactylidae, Lepidoblepharis conolepis Avila-Pires, 2001: distribution extension in northern Ecuador

Gorki Ríos Alvear^‡, Carolina Reyes-Puig^§

‡ Fundación Oscar Efrén Reyes (FOER), Ecuador§ Instituto Nacional de Biodiversidad-Museo Ecuatoriano de Ciencias Naturales, Ecuador

Corresponding author: Gorki Ríos Alvear ( gork_dan@hotmail.com )

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Citation: Reyes C, Ríos Alvear G (2016) Reptilia, Sauria, Sphaerodactylidae, Lepidoblepharis conolepis Avila-Pires, 2001: distribution extension in northern Ecuador. Check List 12(5): 1983. https://doi.org/10.15560/12.5.1983

Abstract

We document Lepidoblepharis conolepis from El Cielito, Carchi province, northern Ecuador. This record, the first record for Carchi province, represents a northward range extension of 90 km from the previously known occurences. All known occurrences of L. conolepis, including our new record, are restricted to the western slopes of the Ecuadorian Andes at sites within fragmented natural forest habitats.

Keywords

Tandapi Gecko; Carchi; western Andean slopes; range extension