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Front cover: Cover image: An embryo of a house gecko (Hemidactylus turcicus) with cartilagenous skeleton stained blue’. See A.H. Griffi ng and colleagues, ‘Ontogeny the paraphalanges derived phalanges Hemidactylus turcicus (Squamata: Gekkonidae)’, this issue.

A molecular phylogeny of the largely rupicolous geckos of the gekkonid genus Afroedura is presented based on a combination of mitochondrial and nuclear gene sequence data. Previously recognized species groups are only partly recovered, with A. pondolia retrieved as very distantly related to the congeners to which it was previously considered allied. Afroedura hawequensis forms a monotypic group...

Species designated as 'cryptic' share a similar morphotype, and are often only clearly separable by molecular data. Cyrtodactylus, the most diverse gecko genus of the family Gekkonidae, is a prime example, because many morphologically similar taxa have only recently been identified as new species as a result of available genetic evidence. However, while cryptic diversity of Cyrtodactylus is alr...

Falcaustra tannaensis n. sp. (Ascaridida: Kathlaniidae) from the large intestine of Nactus pelagicus (Squamata: Gekkonidae) is described and illustrated. Falcaustra tannaensis represents the first species from Oceanica to be assigned to the genus and is distinguished from other species of Falcaustra by the distribution pattern of caudal papillae (8 precloacal, 2 adcloacal, 10 postcloacal, and 1...

Lepidodactylus lugubris is known from tropical Asia, Oceania, and Latin America, but in China it was previously only Taiwan Island. In this paper, we report a new herpetofaunal record based on one specimen collected Wanning, Hainan, China, which conforms to L. both morphological molecular data. Our finding brings the total species of family Gekkonidae Hainan six.

A recent molecular phylogeny of the Arid clade of the genus Hemidactylus revealed that the recently described H. saba and two unnamed Hemidactylus species from Sinai, Saudi Arabia and Yemen form a well-supported monophyletic group within the Arabian radiation of the genus. The name 'Hemidactylus saba species group' is suggested for this clade. According to the results of morphological compariso...

The present study describes by means of immunohistochemistry the comparative distribution of glial fibrillary acidic protein (GFAP)-positive cells in the forebrain and midbrain of three species of lizards: Eumeces algeriensis, Scincoidae; Agama impalearis, Agamidae; Tarentola mauritanica, Gekkonidae. In the species studied, the different types and proportions of glial cells expressing GFAP show...