. Bonn zoological bulletin. Zoology. Bonn zoological Bulletin Volume 57 Issue 1 pp. 15-17 Bonn, April 2010 Gekko ulikovskii Darevsky & Orlov, 1994: a junior synonym of Gekko badenii Szczerbak & Nekrasova, 1994 Quang Truong Nguyen1'3, Andreas Schmitz2 & Wolfgang Bohme3 1 Institute of Ecology and Biological Resources, 18 Hoang Quoc Viet, Hanoi, Vietnam; E-mail: 2 Museum d'histoire naturelle, CP. 6434, CH-1211 Geneva 6, Switzerland; E-mail: 3 Zoologisches Forschungsmuseum Alexander Koenig, Adenauerallee 160, D-53113 Bonn, Germany; E-mail:
. Bonn zoological bulletin. Zoology. Bonn zoological Bulletin Volume 57 Issue 1 pp. 15-17 Bonn, April 2010 Gekko ulikovskii Darevsky & Orlov, 1994: a junior synonym of Gekko badenii Szczerbak & Nekrasova, 1994 Quang Truong Nguyen1'3, Andreas Schmitz2 & Wolfgang Bohme3 1 Institute of Ecology and Biological Resources, 18 Hoang Quoc Viet, Hanoi, Vietnam; E-mail: 2 Museum d'histoire naturelle, CP. 6434, CH-1211 Geneva 6, Switzerland; E-mail: 3 Zoologisches Forschungsmuseum Alexander Koenig, Adenauerallee 160, D-53113 Bonn, Germany; E-mail: In Vietnam, a total of seven species of Gekko are current- ly recognized: G. badenii, G. chinensis, G. gecko, G. grossmanni, G. palmatus, G. scientiadventura, and G. ulikovskii (Rosier et al. 2004; Nguyen et al. 2009). Both Gekko badenii and G. ulikovskii were simultaneously de- scribed in 1994 based on the type series collected from Ba Den Mountain in Tay Ninh Province and "Gilai-Con Turn Province" (now Kon Turn Province) near the border with Laos and Cambodia, respectively (Darevsky & Orlov 1994; Szczerbak & Nekrasova 1994). The diagnostic char- acters of G. badenii and G. ulikovskii obtained from the original descriptions are presented in Table 1. In the key to the species of Gekko from Vietnam, Rosier et al. (2004) distinguished these two species by the num- ber of interorbital scales (30-37 in badenii versus 40^-6 in ulikovskii). Based on the original descriptions, G. badenii further differs from G. ulikovskii by the follow- ing characters: smaller SVL ( mm in G. badenii vs. 87-108 mm in G. ulikovskii), smaller ratio of SVL/TaL ( in G. badenii vs. in G. ulikovskii), and larger number of precloacal pores (14-18 in G. badenii vs. 10-15 in G. ulikovskii). During recent field work in southern Vietnam, a series of G. badenii was collected in October 2004 by Nguyen Huu Dat from the type locality on Ba Den Mountain,
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