Lygodactylus gutturalis (Bocage, 1873)

Bauer, Aaron M., Tchibozo, Sévérin, Pauwels, Olivier S. G. & Lenglet, Georges, 2006, A review of the gekkotan lizards of Bénin, with the description of a new species of Hemidactylus (Squamata: Gekkonidae), Zootaxa 1242, pp. 1-20 : 5

Lygodactylus gutturalis (Bocage, 1873)

Loveridge (1947) listed numerous localities for this species (as L. picturatus gutturalis ) elsewhere in both East and West Africa, but none in countries bordering the eastern Gulf of Guinea. Pasteur (1965) did not specify the localities of material he examined, but depicted the species’ range as extending from Senegal and southernmost Mauritania to the Horn of Africa, and incorporating all but the southernmost parts of Bénin. We were unable to confirm vouchered records of this species for Bénin, but Dunger (1968) reported material from Kadur in western Nigeria and it is clear that this species must also be present in Bénin.