TY  - JOUR
A1  - Ngo, Hai Ngoc
A1  - Nguyen, Huy Quoc
A1  - Tran, Hieu Minh
A1  - Ngo, Hanh Thi
A1  - Le, Minh Duc
A1  - Gewiss, Laurenz Rafael
A1  - Schingen-Khan, Mona van
A1  - Nguyen, Truong Quang
A1  - Ziegler, Thomas
T1  - A morphological and molecular review of the genus Goniurosaurus, including an identification key
T2  - European journal of taxonomy
N2  - The genus Goniurosaurus (tiger geckos) currently consists of 23 species distributed in China, Japan and Vietnam. Several species complexes and recent discoveries of cryptic species pose challenges to the species identification, which is crucial to effectively implement the recent listing of the species from China and Vietnam in CITES Appendix II and the species from Japan in CITES Appendix III. Based on the results of our field work in northern Vietnam and data compiled from literature, we herein provide a taxonomic review of the genus Goniurosaurus. Our phylogenetic analyses showed that all recorded populations of tiger geckos from Vietnam, which were found to be monophyletic with low intra-specific genetic divergences, are assigned to one of the four species: G. catbaensis, G. huuliensis, G. lichtenfelderi or G. luii. Both genetic and morphological analyses confirm that the species from China and Vietnam can be split into three major groups. Based on the newly collected data, we provide an extended morphological description of the Vietnamese species. In addition, we provide an identification key for all Goniurosaurus species from China, Japan and Vietnam in order to assist authorities in the enforcement of the recent CITES listing.
T3  - European journal of taxonomy  : EJT - 751:38-67 
KW  - CITES enforcement
KW  - morphology
KW  - molecular phylogeny
KW  - taxonomy
KW  - tiger geckos
Y1  - 2021
UR  - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/59387
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-593870
SN  - 2118-9773
VL  - 2021
IS  - 751
SP  - 38
EP  - 67
PB  - Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle
CY  - Paris
ER  -