. Bonner zoologische Beiträge : Herausgeber: Zoologisches Forschungsinstitut und Museum Alexander Koenig, Bonn. Biology; Zoology. Fig. 4: Live female paratype of Gekko scientiadventura sp. n. (ZFMK 76174). Phot. T. Ziegler. Fig. 5: Portrait of one of the captive males of Gekko scien- tiadventura sp. n. (see also tig. 28 in Ziegler et al. 2004) from 22 April 2003, measuring a SVL of 67 mm and a TL of 70 mm at the time; note the spiny posterior ciliaries as well as the bordering nasorostrals. Phot. T. Ziegler broad. The right postmental is divided in ZFMK 76176 and 76178. The posterior ciliaries
. Bonner zoologische Beiträge : Herausgeber: Zoologisches Forschungsinstitut und Museum Alexander Koenig, Bonn. Biology; Zoology. Fig. 4: Live female paratype of Gekko scientiadventura sp. n. (ZFMK 76174). Phot. T. Ziegler. Fig. 5: Portrait of one of the captive males of Gekko scien- tiadventura sp. n. (see also tig. 28 in Ziegler et al. 2004) from 22 April 2003, measuring a SVL of 67 mm and a TL of 70 mm at the time; note the spiny posterior ciliaries as well as the bordering nasorostrals. Phot. T. Ziegler broad. The right postmental is divided in ZFMK 76176 and 76178. The posterior ciliaries are spiny in all para- types. The remaining scalation characters vary to a small degree only (see Table 2). Range (mean and stan- dard deviation) of the number of supralabials is 12-14 (+), of the sublabials 9-13 (+), of the scales behind postmentals 5-7 (+), of the interorbitals 41-49 (+), of the ventrals 38-48 (+), of the scales around midbody 118-139 (+), of the lamellae under the 1st toe 12-15 (+), of the lamellae under 4th toe 14-17 (+), of the postanal tubercles 2-3 (+/- ) and of the number of dorsal scales in the 3rd tail whorl 10-11 (+). All juvenile paratypes (as well as two embryos, see ) have still two egg teeth which touch each other apically as it is typical for geckos with relative thick and calcified eggshells (RÖSLER 2001b). The tooth crown of the egg teeth has a shape similar to that of G. gecko (see Sluiter 1893). Colour of preserved paratypes. The pattern of the pre- served material corresponds to that of the living ani- mals, the overall colouration being more greyish. Other material. Next to the type series, there are two male embryos (ZFMK 76199 and CPHR 2028) and three eggshells (ZFMK 76180) from the same locality. The embryonic males exibit egg teeth as decribed above, their hemipenes are completely everted, deeply forked and show two
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