TABLE 1 in Phylogeny of dwarf geckos of the genus Lygodactylus (Gekkonidae) in the Western Indian Ocean

TABLE 1. Relevant morphological characters of members of the Lygodactylus capensis group. Sources: 1, this study; 2, FitzSimons 1958; 3, Marques et al. 2020 (in their Tables 4 and 7 the authors described the mentals as ‘undivided’ but see Figs. 6 and 14 showing clearly semi-divided mentals); 4, Boettger 1913; 5, Branch 1989; 6, Loveridge 1947; 7, Pasteur 1965; 8, Hewitt 1926.
TaxaMental scalesSubcaudal scalesNumber of precloacal poresHatchlings: color of tailLygodactylus angolensis Bocage, 1896semi-divided 3, 5subequal 3, 57–10 5–Lygodactylus bernardi Fitzsimons, 1958semi-divided (clefts reduced) 2subequal 27–10 2, 5reddish 2Lygodactylus bradfieldi Hewitt, 1932semi-divided 1, 7subequal 1, 55 1 4–7 5partly reddish (distal third) 1Lygodactylus stevensoni Hewitt, 1926semi-divided 1, 6subequal 1, 86–7 1 6–9 5partly reddish (distal third) 1Lygodactylus capensis (sensu stricto) (Smith, 1849)semi-divided 1, 6sequence of enlarged scales 14–6 1reddish 1Lygodactylus nyaneka Marques et al., 2020semi-divided 3sequence of enlarged scales 34–6 3–Lygodactylus insularis Boettger, 1913semi-divided 1, 4median row strongly enlarged 1, 45 1 4–6 4no red 1Lygodactylus grotei Sternfeld, 1911semi-divided 1, 6median row strongly enlarged 1, 64–6 1, 6red 1Lygodactylus pakenhami Loveridge, 1941semi-divided 1, 6median row strongly enlarged 1, 64 1, 6no red 1