Phyllodactylus bordai

Ramírez-Reyes, Tonatiuh, Durán-Arceo, Daniel R., Palacios-Aguilar, Ricardo & Flores-Villela, Oscar, 2025, Taxonomic revision of the polyphyletic Phyllodactylus bordai (Squamata: Phyllodactylidae), with the description of a new species, Zootaxa 5722 (2), pp. 151-183 : 172

Phyllodactylus bordai taxonomy

Based on the evidence generated in the present study, we propose restricting the distribution of P. bordai to include only populations from Guerrero, specifically those distributed in the north of the state above 1000 meters of altitude ( Fig. 12 ). In this section, we briefly mention some diagnostic characters that differentiate P. bordai from the rest of Phyllodactylus in Mexico. The original description of P. bordai can be consulted in Taylor (1942), while a systematic review of this taxon is found in Dixon (1964).

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FIGURE 12. Distribution map showing the occurrence of individuals belonging to three species according to the findings of this study: P. ngiwa sp. nov. in red; Phyllodactylus sp., the Huautla-Morelos lineage in green; and P. bordai in blue. Protected areas are shown in yellow: the Tehuacan-Cuicatlan Biosphere Reserve (RBTC), located between Puebla and Oaxaca states, and the Sierra de Huautla Biosphere Reserve (REBIOSH), located in the south of the Morelos state.